From Paris to Zurich

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 […]

While Halloween is slowly creeping into French culture (see also: Is Halloween a Thing in Paris?), it’s still not as widely celebrated as in Anglophone countries. So, if you don’t get your fill of spookiness on the 31st, here’s a tale that’s guaranteed to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. […]