seine

There comes a point in everyone’s life when someone well-meaning or otherwise looks at you and says, “Build a bridge and get over it”.  This is a saying that the French must have taken to heart, for spanning up and…

It’s hard to put into words the feeling I have when I am in Paris.  Or when I think about Paris, for that matter. If you’ll pardon the expression – there really is a certain je ne sais quoi about…

Very few people seem able to escape the effects of our recession.  I propose that perhaps the only solution is to pack up and head off to France, realizing that while the amount of dollars and cents in our pockets might…

  Many a photo of Paris taken from the banks of the Seine, contain these large dark green (often dented and graffitied) metal boxes perched precariously atop the cement walls lining the embankments that run both sides of the river.…

Next time you are in Paris with a few hours to kill before (or after) dinner, or if you need a little break from shopping on the I'sle Saint- Louis- head toward the the left bank of the Seine. Stroll…