Articles tagged ‘Beyond Paris’
Paris Train Travel
By Parisgirl | August 9th, 2007 |
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It’s so easy to take a train from Paris. The trains normally leave on time. It’s easy to get to most train stations by using the Metro station or bus lines.
The SNCF, France’s rail service has been making train travel even more enticing this summer with some sweet deals on their new TGV [...]
French lesson on vacation
By Parisgirl | August 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Je suis venue chercher l’Amerique profonde”, says Nicolas Sarkozy during today’s press meeting, reports Le Parisien
That would translate to “I was looking for the real America, the back country.”
I think it’s time somebody should break the news to President Sarkozy. Lake Winnipesaukee is a really nice place - but it sure [...]
En Vacances-French Vacation
By Parisgirl | August 6th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Learning to vacation a la francaise”
Photo by Reme Aldana
There’s no vacation like French vacationing. It doesn’t really matter if you cross oceans or trek out of Paris for a quick week-end in Normandy. But if you want to vacation French style, there are certain essential elements (as Nicolas Sarkozy so aptly described):
You [...]
Never on Sunday
By Parisgirl | August 6th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
You’d think at least France’s president could have a quiet swim in the lake surrounded by family and friends - without the paperazzi - but here’s what I don’t understand: As early as August 3rd, AFP photographer Don Emmert’s of the president boating at Lake Winnipesaukee had already hit the press (IHT’s story), so [...]
Sarkozy discovers the charms of New Hampshire lakes
By Parisgirl | August 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Life is weird. Chris and I were just talking about how things could have turned out. Many years ago we looked at a summer cottage on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. It would have been a vacation dream house, very old fashioned with a stone fireplace, two acres, right on the lake, [...]
Fashion Tips for Presidential Hopefuls
By Parisgirl | August 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Yesterday I mentioned some of the fashion foibles that hampered Segolene Royal’s campaign. As luck would have it, we met three Swiss guys and a German guy doing a little pre-celebration for August 1st. August 1st? Swiss Nation Day, of course!
Happy Birthday, Switzerland!
I took advantage of this occasion to ask the [...]
Celebrating Paris’s Ethnic Flavor
By Parisgirl | July 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Just because you aren’t in Paris doesn’t mean you can’t recreate Paris at home, especially if home happens to be San Francisco.
French Senator Pleads for Troy Davis’s Life
By Parisgirl | July 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
July 12, just two days before Bastille Day, when heads once rolled from the Paris guillotines, French senator Nicole Borvo Cohen sent a letter to the US court on the behalf of Troy Davis, supplicating that his execution be stopped.
Michael Moore in Paris
By Parisgirl | July 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Be sure to take a look at Whytraveltofrance.com’s post on Sicko I’d been planning to see Michael Moore’s latest documentary on heatlhcare even before I realized that France would be one of the four countries (Canada, UK, Cuba and France) that he chose to visit and compare to the U.S. healthcare system. Moore [...]
