Travel Blog
Do you ever crave a specific city the way most people crave a certain food? It could be any aspect of that city such as language, architecture, mindset, weather, people…anything! Last Sunday morning I woke up with this insatiable craving for Paris. Yes, I do hear how cliché that sounds. Nonetheless, the craving was there …
On my last excursion to Paris, I spent some time in the most charming little neighborhood called Montmartre. This dreamy cobblestone and quaint-housed district is located on top of a hill in Paris’ 18th arrondissement. Montmartre’s most prominent feature is Sacré-Cœur, a Catholic basilica constructed in the Romano-Byzantine style and completed in the early 1900s. …
Last long weekend (which I further extended), I decided that Paris was a good idea and so I got on a new budget airline and shipped myself off to the land of bread and cheese. I spent the next 4.5 glorious days popping into every boulangerie, pâtisserie and fromagerie in sight and spent full afternoons …
When it comes to social affairs, the French really got it right. From style through cuisine, they have mastered the art of carefree luxury portrayed through simplicity, elegance and quality leaving the rest of the world in admiration and curiosity of their effortlessness. And although one might not achieve such an appearance on a daily …