Most food guides to Paris are built around a spine of wine pairings, pork charcuterie, and dishes braised in alcohol. If you’re like us and don’t eat or drink any of that, roughly half of a typical “must-try” list becomes unusable, and the guides written for you tend to be restaurant directories rather than actual…
The area you choose to stay in Paris will shape your trip more than the specific property you book. Get it right and you walk to most of what you came for. Get it wrong and you spend a chunk of every day on the metro, which is exactly what happened to us. If you…
Paris throws a lot at you in a short amount of time, and most guides respond by listing everything the city has instead of telling you what’s actually worth your limited days. In this guide, I’m recommending the things I did on my own first trip to Paris, what genuinely surprised me, and what I’d…
I visited Paris as a 20 year old, with my favorite cousin and my sister. This was also the first time that I was in Europe, and was genuinely excited to fit in as much into my trip as possible. Three days in Paris is enough for the major sights plus a bit of breathing…
