Paris

  • Room With A View

    This is the actual view from our balcony! Oui, that’s the Tour Eiffel in the center. Here’s looking in the opposite direction:That’s Montmartre/Sacre Coeur in…

  • Paris Prep – Packing Redux

    We’re actually about 2/3 packed for our trip! I started packing over the weekend in anticipation of a very busy week and an extremely early…

  • Paris Prep – Five More Days!!!

    I’m starting to get those happy butterflies in my stomach. All original content property of https://unefemmenet.wpengine.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial…

  • Paris Prep – Les Livres

    Each day closer to our trip, ma tête is less and less in LA, more and more in Paris. Currently reading: Selected Letters of Madame…

  • Flying donkey spotted over Ile-de-Cité

    Le hamburger? C’est chic maintenant! “It has the taste of the forbidden, the illicit — the subversive, even,” said Hélène Samuel, a restaurant consultant here….

  • Heavy Lifting

    Une femme’s ongoing efforts to ruthlessly edit down the contents of la garde-robe have stalled. Not only am I struggling to cast off those “maybe-I’ll-wear-it-someday”…

  • Shooting Fish in a Barrel

    Spit in any direction, and you’ll probably hit an egregious example of weight fascism in the fashion industry. But two separate items I came across…

  • Reviendrons á Paris!!!!

    Dollar-Euro exchange rate be damned!!! We bit the bullet and booked our flight for October (and already had trouble getting the dates/times we wanted using…

  • French Lessons

    When we first started making plans to visit Paris this last spring, my primary and overarching concern was What To Wear. I had no worries…