Churches, cathedrals, monuments, museums, sidewalk cafes, café au lait creperies, pastry shops, crème brulee, and macaroons (yum!)—these are all things that Paris is famous for.  Not to be missed though is all the parks, cemeteries, and gardens that are spread throughout the city providing residents and visitors with refreshing oases away from the traffic […]

Strolling along quaint old glass covered sky lit lanes that Parisians have done for more than a century is an experience I can savor over and over again. Long before enclosed shopping malls became the norm in America, the idea of covered shopping avenues was alive and well in Paris. In the first half of […]

“You must go there.  You must go to Paris, and you must go see the city from the top of the Eiffel Tower”  I’ve heard this so often.  One thing I sometimes get peeved about when I’m traveling is people telling me that I just have to go there, have to do this or that.  […]

You can’t miss it.  There on the horizon as you stroll giddily through the streets of Paris.  Up an a large hill overlooking The City of Lights is the imposing white domed Basilica singing at you like a sirens song to come visit.  You think aha! this must be the place of enlightenment on the […]

Perched on a wooded rolling hillside overlooking Paris, the Cemetery Pere Lachaise offers residents and visitors to the city a peaceful, quiet, and visually enthralling oasis within the bustling metropolis. And, it is free of charge! Cobblestone pathways meander through tightly packed marble and granite monuments in memory to faces and lives once lived. The […]