August is when many Parisians head to the family coastal or country home, but in a way Paris feels like a resort itself, because it has a lovely, lazy, slow calmness to it. There’s the heat, too, of course (Cole Porter was surely thinking about August when he penned the lyrics ‘I love Paris when […]
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My Paris: Comedian & Writer Tegan Higginbotham
Melbourne-based comedian, writer and actress Tegan Higginbotham doesn’t just have an inner Parisienne, she can look the perfect Parisian part, too — surely few women outside of the City of Light can wear a stripy top, red lip and tousled hairstyle as well as Tegan can. Her long-time obsession with all things Parisian led her […]
Mother-Daughter Parisian To-Dos
This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day in France — which we’d ideally all celebrate in Paris! If you’re lucky enough to have had a mother-daughter holiday in the City of Light, you’ll appreciate that it’s not just a city for women, but women of all ages and life stages. For any of you planning a […]
Ernest Hemingway’s Paris (Part Deux)
‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.’ So proclaimed the author, whose years in Paris during the 1920s, those années folles, influenced his life-long appetite for the good […]