W H Chong and companion Constant Gardener were scurrying to the Galeries Lafeyette when they started seeing spots: a sudden, exquisite snow shower.
Paris
A.A. Gill: Dine at the worst restaurant in the world
There’s one little bistro in Paris that inspires English businessman to whisper sweet nothings about the fine French cuisine. But A. A. Gill found a restaurant with lazy waiters, overcooked broiled kidneys and very little charm.
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Escaping capitalism (juste un peu) in France
It’s the social capital not the economic capital that runs the best businesses in France. Why go to an all-in-one supermarket when you can drop by your favourite bakery for a hot croissant and a chat? asks Carolyne Lee.
How Parisians cheat the metro ticket system
The French sure know how to be freeloaders. Fare evaders on the Metro system are forming co-ops and charging a small monthly group fee to pay off fines they receive when busted without a ticket.
McDonald’s in the Louvre? Sacré bleu!
McDonald’s is setting up shop at the Louvre, and the French are not lovin’ it. But the gallery claims erecting the Golden Arches outside the home of fine art “is in line with the museum’s image”.
Paris: the city of stinky oui-oui
It’s no longer the dog poo that worries Parisians, it’s the public urination. The Wall Street Journal spends the day with Paris’s Bad Behaviour Brigade on their public peeing warpath.
April in Paris *sigh*
Oh Paris, with your darling streets named after grammarians and revolutionaries and mathematicians. A writer muses on lilacs and cheese and radishes.
