MasterCard Global Destinations Index Based on projections for the rest of this year, London is again claiming victory over arch-rivals Paris and Bangkok for the title of most-visited city. It’s held the honor 5 times in 7 years,…
‘Love Locks,’ those padlocks attached to bridges and monuments all over, with the key thrown away to symbolize unbreakable affection, have been the subject of
A plan for fixed-rate taxi fares to and from Paris’s two airports has been announced by the government, and it’s already drawing cheers from travelers and big jeers from cabbies who believe the proposed rates are wrong and don’t impose similar rules on rivals such as Uber.
Strikes and walkouts by public employees are far from rare in Europe. Still, it came as a surprise to many people when the Eiffel Tower closed most of Friday because its employees walked off the job.
No one really knows where it started, but it’s spread all over the world in the past few years—”Love Locks” snapped onto railings, especially on
I have quite a few favorite places in Paris, but I think the Stravinsky Fountain is the only one I’ve gotten to on every visit. I never get tired of it, or of watching children marvel at it.
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
It looks like European regulators are set to approve a joint operation covering routes between the U.S., Paris, Rome and Amsterdam. The arrangement, under scrutiny for three years, would let the airlines, all SkyTeam members, plan schedules together and share revenue.
Listening (L’Écoute) by Henry Miller (the French sculptor, not the American author) was commissioned in 1986 for a plaza in the area once occupied by
Chicago will open its new Bloomingdale Trail, a park built on 2.7 miles of abandoned railway on June 6. That’s 6/06 if you write it a different way, and 606 is both the root of Chicago area codes, and the name of an overall park project (the606) that…
MasterCard Global Destinations Index Based on projections for the rest of this year, London is again claiming victory over arch-rivals Paris and Bangkok for the title of most-visited city. It’s held the honor 5 times in 7 years,…
‘Love Locks,’ those padlocks attached to bridges and monuments all over, with the key thrown away to symbolize unbreakable affection,
A plan for fixed-rate taxi fares to and from Paris’s two airports has been announced by the government, and it’s already drawing cheers from travelers and big jeers from cabbies who believe the proposed rates are wrong and don’t impose similar rules on rivals such as Uber.
Strikes and walkouts by public employees are far from rare in Europe. Still, it came as a surprise to many people when the Eiffel Tower closed most of Friday because its employees walked off the job.
No one really knows where it started, but it’s spread all over the world in the past few years—”Love Locks”
I have quite a few favorite places in Paris, but I think the Stravinsky Fountain is the only one I’ve gotten to on every visit. I never get tired of it, or of watching children marvel at it.
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
It looks like European regulators are set to approve a joint operation covering routes between the U.S., Paris, Rome and Amsterdam. The arrangement, under scrutiny for three years, would let the airlines, all SkyTeam members, plan schedules together and share revenue.
Listening (L’Écoute) by Henry Miller (the French sculptor, not the American author) was commissioned in 1986 for a plaza in
Chicago will open its new Bloomingdale Trail, a park built on 2.7 miles of abandoned railway on June 6. That’s 6/06 if you write it a different way, and 606 is both the root of Chicago area codes, and the name of an overall park project (the606) that…
