Want to experience the Hidden Versailles? here’s a peek on how its done. Versailles: A Private Tour by Marie Z. Johnston More than 70 million people visit Paris each year. That’s a lot of people. Of that, only 3 million venture out to the Chateau of Versailles (one million in July alone!) making the odds of sharing […]
You are probably wondering what Montmartre and sweet iced tea have in common, right? They actually have nothing in common unless of course you were in the company of the Traveling Pear a year ago. Here it is…the commonality of Montmartre and sweet iced tea. The Chef and I had been in Paris for exactly 68 days […]
Promenading with the Pear a year ago today… An afternoon spent wondering through the 7th arrondissement until we found ourselves on the right bank gazing up at the Arc de Triomphe. I regret never going to the top…next time perhaps. A short walk down the Champs-Élysées and we were confronted with the iconic luxury sweet shop Ladurée […]
Like most of our Paris adventures this one started out kind of silly– Moi to the Chef: ” So how about we go find Paris’ oldest toilets today?” If only one could have seen the expression on my Chef’s face at this suggestion—priceless–almost like I had asked him play 18th century dress-up (something he secretly […]
Sorry it’s been a while but this traveling pear has been so extremely busy that life seems to be speeding by without even a yield sign for slowing down! Over a week ago the Chef’s Momma and I blasted off from Texas headed for Maine. The long journey began as usual, but turned into a […]
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