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• Coup de Coeur 3 years ago These are photos from the turn of the century of the street that I may move to this summer. I’ve spent the last half year in a diligent & daunting search to buy a piece of Paris to call my own and build the next decade+ of my life in. I visited my 21st! apartment … Continue reading "Coup de...
• "CHARTRES" YOUR COURSE 4 years ago Chartres is about an hour and change outside of Paris, beyond the Ile-de-France region that we usually stick to when taking day trips around the city. It’s famed for its massive Gothic cathedral, and unique stained glass, but not much else or so I thought. In fact, staying two nights was actually...
• OH YES YOU FONTAINEBLEAU 4 years ago I took a day trip to the Château de Fontainebleau and spent just the most lush and beautiful day enjoying the small village of Fontainebleau before wandering through the lush bedchambers of royalty. Most of the chateau was closed (we went the first weekend it reopened post-pandemic lockdown) but...
• SOIT JE PLEURE... SOIT JE PARS!* 4 years ago *Either I cry… or I leave! I don’t share stories like this often anymore, not because they don’t still happen, but because I have found a way after six years to keep my head down, get my business done, and not cause any scenes. Six years. And today, I broke that long and comfortable streak,...
• FRATERNITÉ 4 years ago When I was daydreaming of moving to Paris, it was for all the usual reasons. The the joie de vivre, 5 € bottles of Bordeaux, the bragging rights with being part of an elite group of 2 million in the intra-muros (fact-checked!) who have the privilege of calling this enchanting and eternal city...

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