Beauvais Airport is what happens when a high school gym gets embarrassed and wants to fly. This is a disservice to my high school gym, which is actually bigger than Beauvais, and cleaner, and better-smelling. Beauvais is Paris’s third airport, after Charles de Gaulle – Roissy and Orly. CDG is....
Facts: After six weeks, I left France eight pounds lighter than I entered. And I ate as much as a person can: pizzas, ice cream, croissants, many pains au chocolat and a last-night meal closed by a dessert crêpe with ginger ice cream, caramel sauce, and cream. I ate so....
Flag jacking is wrong. It’s pathetic, embarrassing, and in fact deeply un-American. My fellow Americans, do not put a Canadian flag on your backpack. Here’s why. American travelers have allegedly been flag jacking — putting other nations’ flags on their backpacks, or other travel paraphernalia — for decades, in an....
My Vabali spa review: I loved it! Here’s an extremely detailed trip report. Every traveler has their thing: I have an ex-boyfriend who loved aquariums so much that the first time I visited one without him, on a press trip to Curacao, I literally cried as a visibly dismayed representative....
Not everyone will want to make the trip out to Provins to visit APG Réliure, a bookbinding store in a famous medieval town selling myriad bookbinding supplies, hand-marbled papers, and their specialty, “blocs papiers” — preprinted and blank text blocks. The text block selection was truly excellent, with a range....
French lavender fields are justly famous and visiting one can be a highlight of a trip to Provence. That’s where you find them at their most photogenic — and ideally in July, as the lovely purple bloom usually begins in mid-June and ends in mid-August, subject to weather and geography.....
Pickleball is taking over. I played tennis in high school — in a more scattershot but still deeply obsessed way since then — and so fought against it as long as possible, but here’s the thing: It’s too fun. Resistance is futile. When I left grad school for France earlier....
Wondering what time is it in Paris? The answer is: The time comes courtesy of the Time & Date website, which is great. While you’re here, I hope you’ll take a look around this website, which is written by me, a travel writer living between Paris and the U.S. I....
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