Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 8: In this episode, we visit the French President's palace, the Élysée (that first photo is me, in...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 7 In this episode, we stroll up the street where New Yorker writer Janet Flanner lived, where the...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 6: In this episode, we visit a Haussmann-style street where the great writer Zola once lived....

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 5: In this episode, we visit the American Library in Paris, on the easily-overlooked little street...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 4: In this episode, we start in front of the beautiful Sorbonne and walk down the single block of rue...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 3: In this episode, we walk along the rue de l’Ecole de Medicine, the Street of the School of...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 2: In this episode, we stroll North in the 17th arrondissement, focusing on architecture. To begin,...

Improbable Walks, Season 4, Episode 1: Below, photos to celebrate the quirky history of Left Bank literary street, rue de la Bûcherie....

Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 8: In this episode, I chat with Heather Stimmler about the Quartier de l'Horloge, in the 3rd...

Improbable Walks, Season 3, Episode 7: Back in 2014, the market was named for Queen Elizabeth II--this is highly unusual, in France. Here...

Improbable Walks, Season 1, Episode #1: As a thank you to my newsletter readers--you! thank you!--I've created a free mini-walk about the...

Before the Cathedral, there was a church. Before the church, a temple. Before the temple, a place of offerings to a river god. A roof is...

I wrote my first radio play recently, and YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT FOR FREE, by clicking on the elevator picture below. The play is called...

Several people at the Curious Minds lectures asked me for a reading list about Inventing Modern Paris. Which is a great idea! But I have...

Every now & then, I get to read at the long-running series, Spoken Word Paris. Though I can't click my heels and bring you to the...

Every now and then, somebody does something SO annoying that the best solution is to challenge them to a duel. Or so Princess Pauline von...

what we talked about when we talked about Paris at the Hot Docs morning sessions Hello Monday morning people! As requested, here is a...

The wondrous web has all of our past lives vaguely available... Browse here - topics include favourite bookshops, paintings, the weather,...