The Paris Traveler

I’m in the process of weeding things from my surroundings as our family gets ready to pack up the last 12 years of our life and come July, all splitting off in different directions as we go through a monumental shift in how and where we live our lives.  As a result, I have been going through things and of course, get caught up and side-tracked in old photographs, magazines, the dilemmas of, “Do I keep this Mother’s Day card from 1987 and where do I pack it if I do?”  All things that take me totally off track from …read more

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With all the streets that I mentioned in my last post, I thought it would be fun to give you a few facts about some of them. For example the distinction between streets, boulevards, and avenues in Paris is that streets don’t have trees whereas boulevards and avenues do. There are, however, a few exceptions where some streets do have trees, such as the Rue d’Alésia, Rue de Tolbiac, and the Rue de la Convention. 

The only avenue that doesn’t have trees is the Avenue de l’Opéra. The reason for this obviously was not to obstruct the view of the famous Opéra house by …read more

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