Visit Times Square in New York or the Champs Elysees in Paris and you'll likely find more tourists than natives. If you're looking to glimpse the true spirit of a city, check out these five neighborhoods in Barcelona, New York, London, Paris, and Seattle, and experience a bit of the local life. ...

Forget Paris. Great bargains today can be found in Budapest, Prague, and Krakow. For even more affordable adventures, consider Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn, Estonia. ...

Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007 You don’t have to go to a single museum when you’re in Paris. The street is your museum. Walk in Paris’s old neighborhoods like the Marais on Paris’s Right Bank, Metro: St. Paul or the Ile de la Cite and Ile St. Louis in the middle of the Se...

www.berkeley.edu The United States Embassy in Paris is located in Paris’s 8th arrondissement at 4 Avenue Gabriel, Metro: Concorde. If you’re staying at the Hotel Crillon, you would be a stone’s throw away from the Embassy. When you get to the Champs Elysees Rond Point, you’...

comstock.com Not that I love you any the less for it, but nobody’s perfect, not even Paris: 1. Professional beggars using kids,dogs or cats as props. 2. Pollution - even though Paris’s mayor, Bertrand Delanoe is doing his best to combat pollution, that thin layer of soot finds its way...

Shutters Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007 How do you cope with sensory overload? Is it possible that Paris needs to be taken in small doses? Some cities are just too pretty for their own good. Paris, Venice and Rome lead the pack, with London close on their heels (in my opinion). So you may [...]...

www.hotel-paris-arcadie.com How trustworthy are internet hotel reviews? I’m just putting this question out there because I‘m constantly amazed at the variety of reviews one can find for the same Paris hotel! You’d think ten people must have stayed at ten totally different hotels...

Want to hear the advice from Paris Plage regulars. Nadir Dendoune’s two videos (Le Parisien/Loisirs) for Le Parisien give you not only a nice picture of the Porte de la Villette, Paris Plage’s most recent addition, but also a little advice from Parisians who use the beach: One interview...

Sunday evening around 9:30 pm at the Bir Hakeim Metro stop, Italian sports journalist Sergio Vantaggiato had his backpack torn from him. He was on vacation in Paris with his companion, his brother and his eight year old son. Two people made off with his backpack at the Metro stop. [...] ...

Londonlogue reported on the 10th that London may soon have bike rentals resembling Paris’ Velib program. Not only that, London will also have it’s very own Paris Plage with palm trees (of course it won’t be called Paris Plage).According to Londonlogue, the new London Urban Beach...

Inspired by Paris’s Velib bike leasing program, London will try out a similar program according to Londonlogue.com. News. Chris at Londonlogue wonders whether the prices for renting a bicycle in London would remain affordable or would greed and bicycle theft be more of problem in London than...

When relocating to Paris for a sabbatical year, an internship, or a permanent job, the most convenient way to tackle your housing needs is to rent a furnished apartment at least for the first months or year of your Parisian stay. ...

Paris, one of most popular travel destinations in the world and the city with the biggest amount of hotels, is called world fashion capital and ?the capital of all enamored?. One single life is not enough to see all that Paris has to offer, but its best sights and the brightest places can be visited...

Paris wears its mark as the world?s most romantic city with nonchalance, stimulating the senses, demanding to be seen, heard, touched, tasted and smelt. ...

Discover how to getting to Paris, eat, getting around, where to stay, what to see, where to shop, entertainment in this city. ...

Discover how to getting to Paris, eat, getting around, where to stay, what to see, where to shop, entertainment in this city. ...

Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007 Looking for a local place to hang out, drink beer and talk Rugby? In French? Cafe de la Liberte is your place. Metro: Edgar Quinet Thanks to a comment last year, I learned about the Cafe de la Liberte - and we’ve added it to one of our favorites on the [...] ...

Waterlillies by Claude Monet (as seen at the Marmottan Museum in Paris) So you love the impressionists? So, do I, what I like even better is discovering the impressionists of today as opposed to the impressionists of yesteryear. If you are tired and exhausted of the ‘impressionist merchandi...

It’s not every day thatLe Parisien takes its hat off to an Anglophone website wooing English-speaking tourists, so ‘Chapeau’ or ‘Hats Off’ to C’est So Paris.com for its two How to Speak Parisian videos ( I’ve noticed for the past few weeks, ever since pr...

Featured in The Da Vinci Code as Le Bourget airport of yesteryear, the Art Deco era Shoreham Airport (Brighton) is SKYSOUTH’S home. As of August 1, 2007 SKYSOUTH has added twice-a-day weekday flights from Brighton (Shoreham-by-the-Sea), England to Paris (Pontoise). Skysouth has a fleet of tw...

Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007 All rights reserved. Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007 All rights reserved. Twice in the past week, I’ve been asked the same question, “Is Paris romantic?” I’ll try to give you the honest answer, not the typical travel guide answer. To beg...

Yesterday I rhapsodized about the Impressionist treasures of the Musee Marmottan and began to gently nudge you into exploring Paris’s (and the world’s) present day treasure trove of digital art - which brings me to Dorothy’s Gallery a home base for digital artist nomads. Home fo...

The last week of August is a great time to be in Paris - to remember the liberation of the city at the end of World War II (August 25, 1944). Today’s Le Parisien treats us to a video of the liberation. It’s impossible, unless you had been living in Paris at the time of [...] ...

September 7th is just around the corner - the opening match of the Rugby World Cup games in Paris (St. Denis) at Stade de France. France vs. Argentina. Even though the games are officially sold out, there are still some possibilities of buying tickets . According to the official site, you should c...

“You know they think we’re all dips, that is, the Parisians, about the Americans.” This isn’t my comment - it’s the observation of an American recently returning to the US - an American whose observations I respect. So how shall I translate that into French? What...

In Paris, the post office, the ‘bureau de poste’ or ‘La Poste’ is also referred to as the PTT. The mailboxes are bright yellow. If you are dropping envelopes in a mailbox, there will often be a slot for local Paris mail and another slot for ‘everywhere else’. ...

Getting in the mood for partying? The normally sluggish return to Paris for ‘la rentree’ or back to school should take on a whole new attitude. It’s time to stake out your bar stool at your local pub or brasserie to if you haven’t already bought your Rugby World Cup Ticke...

With two weeks' vacation time and just a $1,200 budget, SmarterTravel reader Natalie S. needed help finding a good deal. Our Deal Detective uncovered bargain trips for her from Paris to Prague to Portugal—and many places in between. ...

“Where is the stadium?” translates as “Ou est le stade: or ‘oooo ay le stod?’?” in French. Maybe this reminder is redundant for rugby fans - but just in case - in the beer-induced haze of being in ‘la Belle France’ you forget - there are TWO stadium...

Whether or not you plan on attending the Rugby World Cup, parking in Paris for the next two months is going to be a real headache. If you’re renting or leasing a car at CDG, you’ll want to ensure a safe, accessible, 24 hour guarded parking spot in Paris. You can save [...] ...