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Absinthe Ban Repealed in France

Absinthe Rig © ChrisDag Thanks to the repeal of a century long ban, you can now enjoy a glass of absinthe on your next vacation to France. The mysterious green liquor was popularized in the 19th century by artists and writers like Van Gogh and Rimbaud. Unfortunately, because of perceived side effects like hallucinations, madness [...]

Paris Airport Tests Virtual Boarding Agents

Paris Orly Airport © nozomiiqel In Paris, travelers are now encountering “virtual boarding agents” who pop up seemingly out of nowhere. From MSNBC: The pilot project at Paris’ Orly airport began last month, and has so far been met with a mix of amusement and surprise by travelers, who frequently try to touch and speak [...]

French Actor Pees on Carpet During Flight

Aisle © eyeliam First came the U.S. Olympic ski team member peeing on an 11 year-old girl during a Jet Blue flight. Now comes legendary and indeed iconic French actor Gerard Depardieu urinating directly into the aisle, apparently quite calmly and deliberately, aboard an Air France flight. From CBS in New York: When the flight [...]

Photo of the Moment: High Above La Chapelle Sous Brancion, Burgundy

© Phillip Capper

Masked Men Rob Train in Wild West French Rail Heist

French Train © KOKONIS In a scene taken straight out of an American Wild West movie, masked men robbed a freight train in southern France on Thursday night after blocking the railway tracks with shopping carts and metal beams. Next week pirates plunder yachts off the French Riviera. Get the rest of the story at [...]

Learn Travel Writing from Rolf Potts

In case you missed it, the inimitable Rolf Potts will be teaching a travel writer’s workshop this summer: Aspiring travel writers looking to hone their skills can learn from one of the best – Rolf Potts – at the Paris Writing Workshop, July 1 – 29, 2011. Join Rolf and other successful fiction and nonfiction [...]

Photo of the Moment: Sparkling in the Rain, Bordeaux

© filtran

French Mayor ‘Removes Statue Because Its Breasts Are Too Big’

The mayor of a town in France has thrown a patriotic female statue out of his town hall because its breasts were too big. The artist said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, ‘to symbolise the generosity of the Republic’. The terracotta bust of Marianne – the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in [...]

Paris in 2,000 Images [Video]

Composed of just over 2,000 images, strung together in a complex time-lapse manner, it’s clear a lot went into the making of this visually stunning project. Indeed. Get the full video and an interview with its creator at Intelligent Travel Blog.

Paris Catacombs: Exploring the Urban Underbelly

Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to its underground than almost any city, and that underground is one of the richest. The arteries and intestines of Paris, the hundreds of miles of tunnels that make up some of the oldest and densest subway and sewer networks in the world, are just the start of [...]

Photo of the Moment: Sous le Ciel de Paris, France

© Jose Luis Mieza

Photo of the Moment: Strange Christmas Pyramids in Laval, France

© Ludovic Bertron

Show Your Teddy Bear a Good Time in Paris for Only $140

A Bear About Town © Lisa Omarali From the “Does this even require comment?” file, comes this interesting news story. A retired French man is offering to show your teddy bears and other stuffed loved ones a night on the town in Paris for the low, low price of just $140: Here’s how it works: [...]

Kidnap Travel: French Company Offers Adrenaline Junkies Something Different

Skydiving, BASE jumping, shark diving and other forms of near-death experience just not getting your adrenaline pumping anymore? French firm Ultime Réalité is now offering “kidnap packages”. For around 900 Euros, the firm will kidnap you at random, bound and gag you, and incarcarate you for up to 11 hours, depending on the “package” you [...]

Photo of the Moment: Les Galleries du Louvre, Paris

© kimdokhac

Photo of the Moment: Lone Fire Hydrant, France

© Wolfgang Staudt Love the bold color of this one – it gives the hydrant an anthropomorphic, self-centered, “look at me” personality.

Photo of the Moment: Château de Malbrouck, France

© Wolfgang Staudt View it large.

Photo of the Moment: Arènes de Nîmes, France

© Wolfgang Staudt

High Culture on a Low Budget: Paris’s Musee Nationale du Moyen Age

The Cluny © wallyg It’s hard to imagine Paris while simultaneously ignoring the city’s roots in the Middle Ages. We have the Dark Times to thank for many of the streets, buildings, literature, art, restaurants, hotels, and, bien sur, Notre Dame. There is, thankfully, the Musee national du Moyen Age (National Museum of the Middle [...]

Photo of the Moment: Diving in Cotes D’Armor, France

© pierreyves0

Photo of the Moment: The Wild Aubrac Region, France

© thiooof

The Great Eiffel Tower Hoax

The proposed Eiffel Tower expansion project that we reported on a while back has been exposed as a hoax. According to a tower spokesperson, the idea is “preposterous,” and the entire scheme is a hoax. The news reports said that there were plans to add an extension to the globally recognized landmark to allow people [...]

Eiffel Tower to Receive an Extension?

Paris’ most famous landmark may receive an extension as part of its 120th birthday celebrations. A Paris-based architectural firm has won a contest to redesign the tower’s public access areas. The firm, Serero’s, winning design features an extension of the top floors of the tower, without the need for any permanent structural changes to the [...]

Artist Recreates the Scents of Helsinki, Budapest, Paris

Hungarian born artist Hilda Kozari has created an art installation consisting of three bubbles – one each for Helsinki, Budapest, and Paris – that she says represent what each city smells like. The bubbles are part of an Urban Olfactory Installation exhibit and have been created in collaboration with perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour. The sense of [...]

Photo of the Moment: Inside Notre Dame, Lyon

Inside Notre Dame, Lyon © Stuck in Customs I am, as I always am with Trey’s photos, speechless.

Paris Bids Adieu to Smoking

Yes, you read that correctly: Paris has banned smoking. Paris?!? The last bastion of smoking collapses. The city of cigarette thin women and chain smoking men is set to welcome a smoke-free new year. A no-lighting-up-in-public-spaces ban on smoking went into effect in Paris, France on January 2, 2008. Parisian Days of Yore / © [...]

Photo of the Moment: Lyon Castle at Night

© Stuck in Customs

Mobile Hotel Provides Room with a View

Is that a plane? A Martian spaceship? No, it’s Hotel Everland! A Swiss artist duo, known for their artwork that invites viewer participation has created a mobile one room hotel. The room includes a bed, lounge and bathroom and can be hoisted onto any surface. Right now, it sits on the rooftop of the Palais [...]

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