When I'm in Paris

When I first arrived in Paris, my French teacher at La Sorbonne said something which, as the time, struck me as rather odd. She claimed that, despite having moved into big cities, the French are all still rustic country-folk (a la Middle Ages), and proud of it.
The longer I have spent in Paris, the more [...]

If you are planning on visiting Paris, and have a limited amount of time in the city, visiting Versailles can seem like a daunting day trip. It is an RER ride, or about a 45 minute drive from the city, and it really does mean abandoning any hope of visiting anything else that day. Once [...]