If you want an exciting break, take a day trip Paris to Cologne Germany. Certainly one destination that I would really recommend. It’s just a bit more than 3 hours from Gare du Nord and if you plan your trip well, you can order Thalys tickets way in advance and get it at its lowest ...
Montmartre is a budget fashionista’s heaven. Ask a friend of mine who went home to Canada with seven pairs of shoes and an extra luggage of clothes she got on a shopping spree here. That you can replenish your wardrobe weekly without your wallets feeling guilty is no secret to most women in Paris. They ...
Many travellers looking for budget vacation rentals in the country they are going to visit have fallen prey to dubious characters who offer deals too good to be true and difficult to resist. Both the New York Habitat blog and Yetunde of Feel Like Home in Paris have written salutary pieces to warn would-be vacation ...
Avenue Junot is being bandied as the Millionaire’s Row of Montmartre. But it hasn’t always been so. Until 1910, this part of Montmartre was known as le maquis, a squatters area home to les miserables, the poor artists and the vagabonds. Even the city police didn’t dare patrol or enter this then tightly inhabited area. After ...
