The Arc de Triomphe has always been a rallying point for soldiers both starting and ending major campaigns in war….
There are numerous graves at Père Lachaise with sculpted effigies of people sitting, lounging or sleeping on top of their…
The Panthéon in Paris is King Louis XV’s great contribution to the world of cemeteries… sort of. The original intent…
Across the Seine from Notre Dame, in old Paris, is Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre. This is one of the churches that we…
Meet Notre Dame de Paris: it’s neither the oldest, nor the biggest, nor the grandest church in France. But, it…
Paris is steampunk… in a very complex and deep way. You could say that followers are les Vaporistes and that…
Meet the Seine River: it’s 776km long, the second largest river in France, it starts at Source-Seine just North of…
On one rainy Saturday morning, we stepped out on our balcony in Paris and discovered that somehow, quietly and magically,…
January 7th marks the 1-year anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris; an attack that killed…
Yet again another gallery experience from Paris, with a story… We were on a bus passing by Les Invalides and…
I’m going to slip in a post from Paris because a few days ago it was Adolphe Sax’s 201st birthday…
The Grévin is France’s equivalent to London’s Madame Tussauds… which is rather ironic if you think about it; not only…