A quiet morning by the Canal St Martin and a manic, crowded afternoon at Trocadero…. After the pretty ordinary weather of the last few days, Boxing Day is cold, mostly clear and sunny. I decide […]
Christmas Day is an interesting day in Paris. Many cafes, boulangeries, pharmacies and restaurants are open for business. Dalloyau patisserie, next door to my apartment is open all day and well into early evening, as […]
Christmas Eve in Paris has really turned it on weather wise, and not in a good way! The wind has howled all night, and in additional to broken tree branches littering the (pretty empty) streets, […]
Today I take a chance that Galeries Lafayette in Paris will not be that busy that I turn around and walk out after 3 mins as I have done in the past. Happily, it’s busy, but […]
A last minute decision in mid-November has found me spending Christmas and New Year in Paris. A great deal on a business class fare from Qantas and one of the last three apartments available from […]
It’s time to leave London on the Eurostar, and head for Paris for the night on the way to Hong Kong. The benefit of being close to St Pancras is that it’s a short roll […]
