Join me and Alison Harris on the Italian Riviera next June for the first-ever travel-and-food-writing and photography course we've developed for the prestigious School of…
Various groups of citizens — citizens of the world, not just residents of Paris — are up in arms and rightly so about the mayor…
I'm contributing regularly to the new travel website, Travora.com. Here's my latest story, which reveals the secrets of two of my favorite hidden parks in…
Tossing boules on dusty courts in parks, along canals, or on street corners appears to be the newest thing for bobos and is of…
As a European correspondent for the new travel website Travora dot Com I'm contributing articles from Paris and Rome. Here's my latest, a paean…
(Image: the Hotel de Sens, one of the sites we visit in the Marais) The wise, kind and generous Mr. D. Clark of California read…
My first piece for the new travel website created by Travora.com is up. A few of my own photos are posted here for your delectation.…
One of my favorite wanders in Paris is from the Seine out to La Villette following the Canal Saint Martin up to the Bassin de…
The great news is, the work is finished on the Right Bank section of the Seine sidewalk. Traffic appears to be flowing, and pedestrians are…
Former French president Georges Pompidou — think end-1960s to early 1970s — did plenty to make Paris wonderful: he built most of the eyesores everyone…
The title of my post refers to the book by Christopher Hitchens–sometimes described as the “poster boy” of atheism, a description he loathed–and the former…
Why are the French so strange? They still haven’t recovered from the defeat of valiant Vercingetorix, the warrior, by Julius Caesar… granted, that was recent…
