Vacation in Paris BLOG

Kindness Unmasked

Posted on Jan 07,2021 by JanSmi

My husband Don is what the French call un sportif. He runs (has around twenty marathons to his credit), he plays baseball (the Men�s Senior Baseball League World Series) and he works out. Unlike some of us (me, for example), he doesn�t have to think about this or program it into his schedule. It�s just part of his normal life. { read more }

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Soup Kitchens � la Fran�aise

Posted on Jan 04,2021 by JanSmi

People starving, unemployment skyrocketing, mobs in the street, a government about to be replaced and doing nothing to help.
Sound familiar? { read more }

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Dreaming Of Paris...

Posted on Aug 04,2020 by JanSmi

Five minutes in Paris and I feel that I have been transformed into a Parisienne. The bustle, the beautiful women rushing by in their pencil skirts with high heels clacking. I�m dreaming of sitting in a caf�, drinking a citron presse, listening to the romantic French language, and watching lovers stare into one another�s eyes. { read more }

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Planning The Future With The Past

Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi

Many people inherit family recipes, but Muriel and Olivier Madeline inherited some with a difference. They were for a range of the most famous perfumes of les ann�es folles - that is, the Roarin� 20s, - perfumes that had been created by their great-grandmother, Germaine Duval { read more }

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Paris Cracks Open

Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi

It�s official: Paris is cracking open piece by piece. Or as the French government says, deconfinement is here. { read more }

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Twilight In The City Of Lights

Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi

Quiet, oh so quiet. Paris, without its honking horns, without its clinking glasses, without its boisterous conversations. Paris without its audience. { read more }

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