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In Paris Now
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The blog with Gaul.
A group blog in English about Paris, France. Humorous news and observations about Parisian life, the French and the expatriate experience.
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Daytripping Part Deux
Trong Nguyen, who is the marketing director of a small company, Paris Champagne Tour, generously offered me a one-day tour of the Champagne region. I had the same excitement level about going to Champagne as when I was a child and my parents told me ...
Daytripping
The weather in Paris for the past few days has been uncharacteristically beautiful - sunny, clear blue skies, and temps hovering around 80F. Too hot for most Parisians who don’t seem to have the knack for dressing for warm weather (What’s...
Au Pied de Fouet
Tonight I am eating out at Au Pied de Fouet on rue de Babylone, just beyond Le Bon Marché. The restaurant is in the 6e, in the heart of movie-set Paris; the part tourists visit to chase a little Saint-Germain romance. Tonight, that’s what I w...
Summer Hibernation
I moved to Paris in August, four summers ago, when everything in the city was closed. Those impressionable weeks were spent shopping at Ed* and wondering what treasures lay behind the metal gates pulled over every window. I scanned the empty sidewal...
The Great WiFi Debate
Back in my Sorbonne days, you could often find me working at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (sometimes alongside my students from Nanterre, which was embarrassing). One of the major drawbacks of the BSG–also a boon for serious researchR...
