Insider tips for Paris museums and monuments: This French Life


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

How I would love to have the chance to follow these tips from This French Life and spend more time in museums in Paris, or just more time in Paris, or even more time to just think about more time in Paris. VISITING Paris museums and monuments are the things you most want to do … Read more

ParisDailyPhoto


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

Eric posts a photo a day of Paris. We’ll have to meet him when we go back!

The Best Steak Frites in Paris


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

Mark Bittman writes, in yesterday’s New York Times Travel Section, of his assessment of The Best Steak Frites in Paris. It isn’t, of course, only about the potatoes but about the steaks (or rib roasts or fried boneless pig’s feet) that go with, and justify, the frites. As a fairly avid carnivore myself, this is … Read more

We’re Back From Paris

Back from our trip, including 2 nights in Avignon, 2 in Geneva, and the final 6 in a small apartment in St. Germain des Pres. Much more about this to come, with links and pictures. Great food, cool weather (three hailstorms – small and brief enough to be interesting instead of overwhelming), museums and art, ... Read more

Nous sommes arrivee

Ellen and I are in the Air France arrivals lounge after a remarkably good flight. Business class is all it’s cracked up to be. The French keyboard on this iMac is quite different from the American layout. Odd. I hve to use the shift key to type a period, the a and q keys are … Read more

World Subway Maps


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

Downloadble, hi-resolution maps of subway systems around the world at travel site Amadeus.net.

The Amateur Traveler Podcast – Paris

Ellen was looking around for travel information, and found The Amateur Traveler Podcast – travel for the love of it and specifically, Episode 42 – Paris, France – The City of Lights. The Amateur Traveler talks about Paris, France, the City of Lights. The show will talk about French, what to see, what to eat, ... Read more

NYT: 36 hours in Paris


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

The Times’ Sunday Travel section on how to spend a quick, intense visit to Paris , including a Friday evening dash through the Louvre, Moroccan food, Baudelaire’s grave and finding great costumes at the flea market. “THE chief danger about Paris,” T. S. Eliot wrote to a friend, “is that it is such a strong … Read more

iTunes – Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection


Warning: join(): Invalid arguments passed in /usr/home/timmerritt/public_html/timmerritt.net/wp-content/plugins/Textile/classTextile.php on line 328

The Open Culture blog posts several links to the Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection at iTunes. I’ve posted about similar Podcasts before, but these are reminders as much for me as anything.