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    Let's Explore,  Seeing Paris

    Paris: Shopping for Essentials – Who decides?

    November 17, 2020 /

    Thinking about the holiday shopping ahead? France is working through a vocabulary issue: what is considered essential shopping and what is non-essential? On the morning breakfast show, Télématin, Gabriel Atal, a government spokesperson, said it was unfortunate the government chose the legal form of the word, essential. In other words, deciding what is or is not essential is very controversial. Small businesses are hurting in November Monoprix, a mini-department store (grocery, household, parapharmacy, clothing, toiletries, etc.) was fully open during the first 55-day lockdown. This time, to be in solidarity with the small business, certain departments are cordoned off: books for example. However, magazines are sold because the magazine kiosks and…

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    Paris Fashion – Read a Book

    October 1, 2015
    Personalized voting ballot for Batman at the municipal elections in Paris

    Voting and Counting for Paris Elections

    March 24, 2014
    Poster Des Jouets et des hommes, RMN/Grand Palais Paris until January 23, 2012

    Any Age Enjoys a Good Toy at the Grand Palais

    October 2, 2011
  • Chalets along Champs-Elysées for Christmas Market and Santa Claus Pere Noel
    Christmas,  Specific Info

    Champs Elysées Christmas Market No More

    November 7, 2017 /

    Two events will effect somebody this latter part of 2017. Planning on the Champs-Elysées Christmas market? Stuck in traffic? It's like a soap opera or a custody fight in a divorce. Whose side will you be on? Every year Christmas markets attract 30 million people visitors in France. Fifteen million of those visit one or more of the 250 chalets along the Champs-Elysées for the Paris Christmas market. If you are stuck in traffic this week, the carnival operators are conducting an "escargot" (snail) slowing down and blocking traffic with their semi trucks on the expressways. They want to set up their chalets on the Champs-Elysées.

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    A February Saturday in Paris

    February 28, 2011
    Lunch with a view at 58 Tour Eiffel

    Lightness of being at the 58 Tour Eiffel restaurant

    July 27, 2010
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    Did You Lose An Object In Paris?

    December 17, 2012
  • Choral procession and concert every December Svenska Kyrkan, Paris
    Christmas,  Going Out

    Something Different for Christmas in Paris

    November 22, 2016 /

    Looking for something out of the ordinary as you prepare for Christmas in Paris? A reader asked me this question, so here are a couple of ideas: the Swedish Church (Svenska Kyrkan), Affären (the Swedish shop and café) and the AAWE bazaar: Sankta Lucia (Sainte Lucie, Saint Lucia, Santa Lucia, etc.) is a choral presentation and procession filled with candlelight. In the procession, the church choir holds candles and sings; the Lucia wears a crown of candles her head. It is a tradition that I experienced when I lived in Stockholm and one that continues here in Paris. The Swedish Church (Svenska kyrkan) (église suedoise) holds this event every year…

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    March 4, 2016
    Petit Josselin interior

    February 2 – Time For La Chandeleur (Crêpes)

    February 1, 2011
    Cover of Que Choisir consumer magazine March 2016

    Que Choisir Tests Beauty Ingredients

    March 10, 2016

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