Why 52 BC? Keep reading and you’ll find out. It’s one of the key dates in the history of Paris (hint: it’s also…
The life and times of critically acclaimed author David Downie in Paris and Rome, France and Italy.
Category: Paris Tours Walking
Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 7: Vézelay, relics, and the pilgrimage-tourist trade These blog posts are taken directly from…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 6, Vézelay with Scallops à la Saint Jacques These blog posts are taken directly from my…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 4 to To Vezelay on a Toy Train These blog posts are taken directly from…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 3 Paris Prelude cont.: Paris Underground These blog posts are taken directly from my…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 1 Paris Prelude: Reasons Why These blog posts are taken directly from my notebooks. They…
Bagatelle: Racy Sphinx, circa 1777 In Paris, in the spring, chill rhymes with thrill–or is it the other way around? Right now it's about…
My special valentine does not like chocolate. So the hundreds of Paris bakeries, pastry shops, chocolate shops and miscellaneous hawkers of cocoa-based delicacies do not…
Out and about on a Paris, Paris Tour with another small group of discerning visitors, people who know and love Paris and live here part…
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light–my book of essays about Paris–is coming out again in April 2011 in an updated, expanded, redesigned edition…