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Finding a hotel in any major city is always a challenge.  Finding a reasonably priced hotel in Paris is a major challenge.  Hotel Esmeralda has been around for ages.  It's claim to fame is probably that Vogue Magazine puts it's employees up here for Fashion Week.  I stumbled upon the hotel years ago when I was backpacking through Europe.  I am not suggesting that it is a backpackers hotel by ...

Today is the first day of a French national pastime, striking!!! The French are fantastic at striking-I would not be surprised if they invented the concept.  Madame Currie and Napoleon plotted together in a lab in Corsica and from a test tube came the concept of the strike.  The strike will effect the metro, RER and SNCF lines.  It starts today and should end by Sunday. 

Given it is the start ...

Set your watches to strike at the stroke of midnight tonight.  Today is the third Thursday in November which symbolizes the uncorking of the Beaujolais Festival. This is a much anticipated event in Paris and restaurants around the city will be celebrating with this years vintage.

Sit back and enjoy a glass.

Paris is home to markets.  Every day of the week there is a neighborhood market selling the most delightful items.  One of the more interesting markets is the Bird Market which is held Sunday mornings on the Ile St.-Louis across from the police headquarters.  Hundreds of brightly colored birds are displayed in their cages.

For the serious orthoniologist there are many ...

The first time my nose received a wiff of Serge Lutens perfume was in a bistro in the Marais.  My husband was ski racing in the Italian Alps and I was spending a few days in Paris.  Makes sense.  I had stopped for lunch in the Marais and was seated at the bar next to a fashionably dressed older French woman.  Fashionably dressed French woman is probably redundant.  Is there ...

Galleries Layfayette is one of the three larger department stores in Paris.  Located on Boulevard Haussman on the right bank is is a shopper's paradise.  The store can meet all of your shopping needs whether they be fashion, jewelry and accessories, home furnishings, books, gourmet food or souvenir trinkets.

If you hold a non-EU passport visit the welcome desk to collect your 10 percent discount coupon.

With the holidays approaching, the store will ...

I will be visiting Paris for the holidays and did not want to stay in a hotel.  The exhange rate is much too high and the thought of having my own apartment and running to the local boulangerie each morning quite appeals to me.  One of my friends had recently rented an apartment in Barcelona and had quite great success with ...