Enjoy your Sunday!
Thieves ride off with 3,000 of Paris’s free bicycles (independent.co.uk)
In Paris, burgers turn chic (iht.com)
French combat youth binge drinking (time.com)
France Rediscovers Its Love of Trams (businessweek.com)
Let them eat Meil Pops (ft.com)
Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum@flickr
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Do not pass Go, do not collect $100, but immediately take yourself to the following link and be treated to a remarkable visual tour of the beautifully refurbished Grand Palais. It is an amazing 2 minutes of time well spent! The new website is fantastic.
Grandpalais.fr
Photo credit: bratan@flickr
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No, this isn’t some gruesome tale about an ancient axe murder having taken place in the streets of Paris. Actually, it is a bit of history and I know it’s summer vacation and brains have been turned off but I think you are going to like this. When you are in Paris, you can amaze those in your traveling party with this bit of information.
The Axe Historique is a line of monuments that slices through the center of Paris, east to west. It had its beginnings with the Champs Elysée, created in the 17th century. It extended the the …read more
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Sadly, I have just finished reading the latest adventures of David Sedaris, author of When You Are Engulfed In Flames. I say sadly because I laugh harder than I usually do when I read about the misadventures of he and his partner, Hugh, as they traverse the world. Actually, Hugh has few misadventures. It is Mr. Sedaris that finds himself doing banal, daily things like smoking cigarettes or visiting a doctor’s office, as we all must once in awhile, however, all hell breaks loose for this author and the mundane becomes hilarious.
These events would not be half as funny …read more
As I go along my merry way through the land of the Internet, I come across all sorts of crazy and/or unnecessary things that would be fun to have or just fun to know that they exist.
I am fairly certain that no one would actually use this anymore, but it would be so fun to have–a little treasure that I would put on a fancy little dish on my desk and just look at and think how cute is that. A pen nib in the shape of the Eiffel Tower! Something for the Francophile that has everything.
We are all chocoholics …read more
Try to imagine if you can, getting all jazzed up in your “I am so going out on the town and am going to look amazing” outfit, only to find yourself donning a hard hat, goggles and white painters uniform while being handed a sledge hammer in order to smash walls, closets and bathrooms at one of the finest hotels in Paris.
That’s exactly what several hundred VIP’s were invited to do at Le Royal Monceau, a five star grande dame of a place to stay just off the Champs Elysée. Needing to give the old gal a face lift, the …read more
Enjoy the day!
Le Corburbusier: the artist’s high-rise, low rent life (timesonline.uk)
French to shell out over snails (bbc.co.uk)
Parlez-vous ‘purchasing power’? (iht.com)
French winemakers abandon the cork (telegraph.co.uk)
Carla Bruni ‘hurt’ by critics of new album (yahoo.com)
Photo credit: Ben (enjoys holiday:-)@flickr
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Bastille Day or “quatorze juillet”–July 14th, much like our Independence Day, is France’s most important national holiday. It is celebrated in honor of the storming of the high security prison by the same name, Bastille, holding political prisoners whose views and subsequent writings angered the monarchy. While the historic moment freed only 7 prisoners and destroyed the entire prison, this event was viewed as a symbolic act of rebellion and solidarity and marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
In modern times, the day begins with a military parade held along the Champs Elysée, led by the President, followed by …read more
Friends, lamenting the fact that they paid $4.17 a gallon for gas this past week, generated a conversation over dinner of how the US, aside from a handful of major urban areas, lacks so significantly in good public transit. The town I lived in for the last 12 years is so un-pedestrian friendly for both walking and biking, sprawling outward for miles that if you don’t have a car, you are sunk. Citing my very positive experience with the Paris metro and my girlfriend’s upbringing in Germany, where again, public transportation was available and part of daily life, we tried …read more
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As you may or may not know, us bloggers have our wily ways of discovering certain things about our blogs: readership for the day, popular posts, where in the world some of our readers come from and which bloggers have linked to one of our posts in order to make a point or add extra information to their post. Tuesday, The Paris Traveler was linked to an article and I am going to send you right back there!
Alexander Lobrano is the European correspondent for Gourmet magazine–can you say “dream job”??? Oh my goodness. Eating my way through Europe and then writing …read more
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