Greetings from the newly opened and truly magnificent Paris Ritz.
Greetings from the Paris Ritz
What I Learned in Paris/Monaco: Part IV 2013
Originally posted May 29, 2013. Debbie and I split our twice-a-year European research trips into three parts, including a front-end and back-end centered in Paris and a mid trip destination that in the past has included Switzerland, where I tried to open a Swiss bank account and was promptly shown the door. Swiss banking doors, […]
What I Learned in Paris, Part II 2016
If you are a first time or even a second or third time visitor, it is pretty easy not to understand the arrondissment concept. Paris, divided by the River Seine into the Right Bank and the Left Bank, is a city of about two million people living in 20 arrondissments, or districts, each with its […]
The Ritz Paris Is Back
Debbie and I loved the old Ritz Paris and, unfortunately, missed the re-opening of the new Ritz Paris by one day. The Telegraph has a neat new video (below) that will leave Ritz Paris fans drooling. Here’s the Telegraph’s description: The grand dame closed for refurbishment in July 2012 after it failed to win France’s […]
Terrorists/Unions Killing French Tourism
Dick and I are back in Paris after several days in Beaune, France, the heart of Burgundy and its wine. Once again we stayed at our favored L’Hote de Beaune, first introduced to us by a Butterfield & Robinson bike tour we took about five years ago. Biking through Burgundy on the mythical Route des […]
Warm Greetings from Paris
Room with a View
Originally posted October 10, 2014. Before heading to Burgundy, on one of our last days in Paris on the front end of this fall’s trip, Dick and I signed up for a Paris by Mouth tour, one which focused on food emporiums in the 3rd arrondissement. (I first read about Paris by Mouth on David […]
Paris Terrorist Shot and Captured in Brussels
A tense raid took place in Brussels, with grenades lobbed, smoke rising and shots fired. Police wounded and apprehended France’s Public Enemy No. 1, Salah Abdeslam, known as the man who drove accomplices to the Bataclan Theatre in order to perpetrate the November 13, 2015 terrorist massacre there. Abdeslam has been on the run until today […]
Muslims Incompatible with French Society
Originally posted September 15, 2014. Seventy-four percent of French believe this is so. And an even greater number of French lack faith in Socialist president Hollande. I hear both themes repeated often when Debbie and I are in Paris. The French most certainly know they have made a mistake with their lax immigration policy and […]
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