Thinking about teaching English in Paris? Every year thousands of English-speakers consider spending a few years in the City of Light - and find that their mother-tounge skills are much in demand. Opportunities to find paid teaching work in the great city fall into two primary options - take a post as an assistant in [...]
Descend under the Paris streets, and alongside the sewers, the metro tracks and all the basements you’ll find something entirely more unusual - some 300km of ancient tunnels.
Paris’ unusual (and legendary) subterranean network was created as far back as the 12th Century, as Paris’ medieval citizens quarried out gypsum and limestone to help build their [...]
The Seine is a stunning river - cutting a deep line through the very heart of Paris, lined with gift stalls and book shops, it’s the Seine that brings the city to life. It’s also dangerously liable to flooding, a problem that’s only worsened by the close proximity of so many of France’s key monuments, [...]
There’s nothing quite like rolling into a famous city by train - and the Eurostar rail service connects two of the greatest cities in Europe. Shooting between the centres of London and Paris via the impressive Channel Tunnel, in it’s fifteen years of operation Eurostar has proven enormously popular with tourists and business travellers alike.
The [...]
Ernest Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, aged only 22 years old. Then a budding journalist and short-story writer, and recently married to older wife Hadley, Hemingway moved into a small flat at 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, just north of the tiny Place de la Contrescarpe in the 5th Arrondissement’s Latin Quarter. While the [...]
