The Paris Traveler

May 4th, 2008

Café Dimanche

 Here’s this week’s installment of quality reading of all things French, or not, while you curl up with your computer screen, a cup of coffee and a croissant.   

Hookah bars in Paris fight smoking ban (iht.com) 
10 Sizzling Hot Travel Tips From Sir Francis Bacon (worldhum.com)
‘He who eats alone is dead’ (theglobeandmail.com)
No Quasimodo, He Brings Music to Notre-Dame Bells (nytimes.com)
Pfaff: […]

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April 26th, 2008

Bouquinistes & Berthillon

Today we are back to Madame Guiliano’s  Top 20 To Dos in the City of Lights.  So far we are 2 for 2 she and I.  Today makes it 3 for 3 as we journey along the banks of the Seine from the Pont Neuf and spend time browsing through the vintage books and magazines […]

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April 13th, 2008

Rear Window

A rare view of Notre Dame from the back.  This photo is hauntingly beautiful.  Amazing.
 
 Photo credit:  Flickr, J. Salmoral
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January 19th, 2008

O.K. People, Quiz Time

I let things slide last week and didn’t challenge your knowledge (or  mine for that matter) about Paris but now’s the time to fire up your brain cells. 
Question:
How many bridges span the Seine river?

 16
 26
 36
 46

A number of beautiful and not-so-beautiful bridges carry pedestrians and traffic back and forth between the right and left bank and onto […]

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September 18th, 2007

This Is Paris To Me

I recently sent one of my poems (not this one) to be included in the Jack Kerouac exhibit that will be taking place on the 23rd of September in Paris at the Cabaret Pirate in front of the BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), which got me to thinking….  How could I have not seen that […]

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