Fellow Harry Potter Book I fans, don’t let me down. Tell me you know the significance of this: He’s real! Cutting off of Rue de Rivoli last week to escape the crowd, I ran right into Rue Nicolas Flamel. Since…
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sweet spot
Riddle me this: Where in the (Parisian) world can you see in one shot the Louvre Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, Grand Palais, Place de la Concorde ferris wheel, Arc de Triomphe and La Defense business district? I discovered this spot last week while…
a day of little happy somethings
24, I’ve decided, is an odd age. When I was a kid, I fully expected to be married and settled down at this age…never did I ever expect to be living on my own in Paris, France. By the grace…
confetti
A parade? Leftovers from New Years? Decoration painstakingly worn into the ground? Celebration in the form of hundreds of rainbow dots covered the ground all around Montmartre on Sunday. They brightened up the street with every turn we made.
you get what you ask for
Did I dupe the system? That’s what I asked myself as I walked home from my internship Monday afternoon. A morning of planning the next issues of the University’s magazine had ended with a feast of promising story options for…
you know what they say about assumptions…
Seated silently on the plane, belted and ready to leave, I watched the grandmother passed me on the way to her chair. “Bon-jouuuuur!” she called to her family members already in their places. That’s when he leaned over the empty chair…