The invitations to attend a big soiree for the Amoureux de Paris for 22 June dropped into my Twitter DM box from @jfruiz and @blogparis. I was a bit hesitant to accept because I knew the expected crowd would be mainly French speaking bloggers, not the usual American expats I’m used to meet at Tweet-ups. ...
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 ...
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 ...
There was a time not long ago, German Catholics would do their spring cleaning on Good Friday to get their Protestant neighbours’ blood pressure sky high. (To get back at them, the Protestants would party on All Saints Day.) That’s tame, considering what they do in the Philippines on Good Friday. Not only do they ...
