When I'm in Paris

Most people who come to Paris assume that they are going to get around by catching the metro- and why not? It’s fast, cheap, and, once you have a map easy to understand. The only draw back (aside from the heat in summer) is that taking the metro means that you spend a large proportion [...]

Paris is divided into twenty neighborhoods or arrondissements. Each neigborhood spirals out like a snail shell from the center of the city, with the low digits all close to the center and the higher number forming the outer rim. The Seine divides the city into the right bank and left bank (rive droite [...]