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 We are foodies. No doubt about it. We love exploring new places when we travel and revisit old favorites. This blog compiles all of our Paris restaurant reviews in one spot. 1st Arrondissement L’Escargot Montorgueil (38 Rue Montorgueil) 2019: This Marais neighborhood spot specializes in, you guessed it, escargot. We were in the mood for [Read more …]  Paris France is one of those places to which we frequently return. In fact, we have spent more time here than in any other non-U.S. city. This time we only had 3 days in reacquaint ourselves with some of our favorite museums. Rather than repeat or rephrase all that we have written before, this post [Read more …]  The main purpose of our trip to Beaune France was to visit the Cote de Beaune Burgundy wine region. We spent one day in the area on bikes: electric bikes to be precise. This was our first time on electric bikes. We rented them to explore about half of the 22 km “Voie des Vignes” [Read more …]  What’s not to love about visiting France’s Burgundy Region? We love its foods, its wines and its atmosphere. We were last there 7 years ago and it was time to get back. Beaune France is the largest city that is specifically in the Burgundy Wine Region. It is also one of our favorite small French [Read more …] It’s time to say au revoir to our almost 4 weeks of living in Paris. But we will be back. With so many places and so many blogs on Paris, we decided to create this blog that points to the neighborhoods, museums and restaurants that we talk about: Neighborhoods Marais District Île de la Cité [Read more …]  It has been many years since our last trip to the Champagne region of France. We would have liked (to take a few days to visit a number of small producers from around the region that we met at a recent San Francisco champagne tasting. But darn, we weren’t able to take that much time [Read more …]  Giverney isn’t really a museum, but it may as well be. It is actually a pretty Norman town in which Monet chose to build his estate, and his now famous garden. We’ve seem the paintings that Monet painted of Giverney and have seen pictures of his beautiful garden, but we wanted to see it for [Read more …] Wherever we travel, food is always one of our obsessions. Nowhere more so than Paris. While we have eaten at a number of Michelin star restaurants in the past, and still occasionally do so. This trip included visits to two white-tablecloth Alain Ducasse restaurants—restaurants at which we had very different experiences, and came away with [Read more …]  “Off With their Heads”. …a phrase that comes to mind when talking about the French revolution. We knew a little about this time period, but our knowledge was rather limited and impressionistic. What better way, short of reading a book, to learn about the French revolution than to take a walking tour of the Paris [Read more …]  Paris Archeological Crypt Crypte Archeologique, which is located at the spot on which Pairs was first settled (right by Notre Dame Cathedral), is loaded with history. The first and best place to learn about and to actually see remnants of its earliest history is in the site in which that history was created. Through 3D [Read more …] |
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