A Week in Paris

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How'd They Move That Submarine?
I’d love to hear from one person who wasn’t unexpectedly caught in a rain shower in Paris this week. They were plentiful and dramatic and as I passed a…
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People Watching
The week passed exactly as I’d hoped on Île de Ré. There was bike riding (the best way to get around the island), reading, writing, sunsets at the…
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3 Things To Do In Paris This Month
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Gariguettes
After a long Easter weekend we returned to the city in our rental car on Monday morning and snagged a park just outside the Jardin des Plantes, poor…
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Mona Alona
I was treated to a rather exceptional experience this week, granted a private audience with Mona Lisa herself. Usually surrounded by crowds (when the…
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March 2024

Easter in France
Joyeuses Pâques
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Spring of Deception
From the joy of t-shirts back to winter coats, rainbows to thunderstorms, please raise your hand if you felt personally victimised by the weather in…
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Birthday Week
Firstly a huge thank you to everyone who upgraded to a paid subscription this past week which resulted in over €300 donated to the United Nations…
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40 Things I Know at 40
That’s it. I’m 40 and life looks simultaneously nothing and everything like I’d imagined. Aging is a privilege and (although I had a mega meltdown at…
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3 Things To Do In Paris This Month
March
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Two Days of Sunshine
Two days of sunshine was all Parisians needed to forget it’s been the wettest February on record, ignore the rising banks of the Seine and jump onto any…
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Motherhood Around the World
I spent Monday morning patiently waiting for a call about an important delivery, 2000 copies of my book to be lugged upstairs into our storage cupboard…
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