From Paris to Zurich

At just 0.992 km², the 2nd arrondissement may be Paris’s tiniest, but it punches well above its weight. Packed with history, shops, and entertainment, this former financial and textile hub is small but endlessly fascinating. Here are a few intriguing tidbits: Half of the City’s Passages Couverts Paris once had over 183 covered arcades – […]

With more than 140 artworks freely scattered across its streets and squares, Paris doubles as a vast open-air museum. Some pieces are unavoidable: Daniel Buren’s black-and-white columns at the Palais-Royal, or the riot of color and movement in Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely’s Stravinsky Fountain outside the Centre Pompidou. But the city’s real […]

Despite being Paris’s largest and most populous arrondissement, the 15th has a reputation for being rather quiet, some might even say dull. And yet, there’s more than enough to do, and a few genuinely lovely corners to prove the skeptics wrong. Home to 230,000 people (the equivalent of Bordeaux’s population) the 15th still struggles to […]

Whether you enjoy your trip or not depends largely on the weather. Almost any place is great when the sun is shining. But when it rains – and it does quite often here – what a city has to offer is put to the test. If you search for things to do in Paris when […]

The 19th divides the crowd: hipster heartland of left-leaning twenty-somethings for some, urban apocalypse best admired from afar for others. As usual, the truth sits somewhere in between — though it’s definitely sipping a flat white on the hipster side. Then vs. now About ten years ago, my friend Céline moved into a cheap attic […]