Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents. Officials in Paris have launched a citywide campaign to eliminate the 8 million rats living below the City of Lights' surface. Ew, nothing cool or cute about that (except maybe a BBC photo editor's choice of putting a Ratatouille still as the article's accompanying...
Every so often a book is published that makes you ask yourself: how much weight did the author put on researching it? Jamie Cahill, author of the recently published Pâtisseries of Paris , has compiled the city's best pastry shops, bakeries, ice cream shops, chocolatiers , and salons de thé . Many...
As we mentioned last summer, Paris provides free Wi-Fi access from more than 260 public parks, gardens, and monuments. A beautiful idea, but those of us with real work to do need a table and a beer. Helping us out are a number of cafés and bistros that serve free Wi-Fi along with their liquid offerings...
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Springtime in Paris, blah blah blah. Despite their proclivity for swing clubs , kinky saunas , and other libertine pleasures, it turns out the citizens of the supposedly most romantic city on earth aren't all born Romeos and sex kittens. Love coaches, bondage, spanking, and sex toy lessons at the...
Air to Top US Cities: $44+ OW through Fall : Until the end of today, April 4, o/w flights from Chicago to Minneapolis are at $44, Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas $129 and Memphis to New York $124. Prices valid through October 4. Springtime in Europe: 3-Night Trips From Just $592 : Want to visit France...
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The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Berlin Go West, Young Clubgoers [NYT] Bilbao The regeneration game [Telegraph] Dallas Going To: Dallas [NYT] Deals 51 Ways to Cut Vacation Costs [National Geographic Traveler]...
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There's a lot of bitter, snarky, nasty anti-celebrity sentiment out there, and I just wish we could all agree that famous, rich, beautiful people are just like you and I, expecting that they are those things and we are not. I see no reason to kick people on the way down; much better to wait until...
Travel between the United States and India may soon become significantly easier and cheaper, thanks to an open-skies agreement inked by the two countries, the BBC is reporting today . Under the current regulated regime, all Indo-American flights must originate or end in Delhi or Bombay (Mumbai), leaving...
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