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Between the 19th and 20th century, wine barrels would travel via canal boat from the regions of Burgundy all the way to Paris which were then traded at the riverside cellars of Bercy, destined to grace the tables of thirsty Parisians. Today, there is one little houseboat, known as ‘La Cave Vagabonde‘, still making the [...]
The shiny red vintage car that sits proudly on the back of a houseboat in Paris, is a sight well known to Parisians that take time out from the bustling boulevards to walk along the banks of the river Seine. This evening I saw it again, for the umpteenth time and finally, it clicked. How [...]
Spying on house boats along the river Seine has sort of become one of my daily activities. When taking my evening run on the banks, I find myself focusing less on my heart rate and more on imagining life aboard one of the peniches; how I would ideally arrange the deck furniture, what I [...]
A London friend emailed me an article this morning about tourists visiting the French capital, specifically Japanese, who fall prey to what is known as the ‘Paris syndrome’. Around a million Japanese travel here every year (yeesh), many expecting the fairytale vacation they once saw in a Woody Allen movie. But an average of up [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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For many years, these bizarre buildings on the isolated southern tip of Marco Island in Cape
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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