http://parisbynumbers.com The Insiders guide to visiting, living and working in Paris Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:53:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2009/03/05/paris-floods-and-a-wet-statue/ 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 ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2009/02/11/paris-catacombs-underground-tunnels/ 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 ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2009/01/23/ernest-hemingway-in-paris/ 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 ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/10/12/teach-english-in-paris-english-language-assistants/ 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 ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/09/28/paris-by-train-eurostar/ It's certainly a wacky idea: each summer the 'Paris Plage' project brings the beach to the city by laying some 2000 tonnes of sand straight on top of Paris' busy riverside motorway. Eccentric, for sure - and yet it works, and it works a dream. Since it's launch in 2002, ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/05/13/paris-plage/ George Orwell moved to Paris in the spring of 1928, taking up a room in a small hostel in the Latin Quarter, at 6 Rue du Pot de Fer. Aged 24, The young Eric Blair (Orwell's real name) had moved across the channel to concentrate fully on his fledgling writing ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/05/13/george-orwell-in-paris/ Bastille Day is a big deal in Paris - each year on the 14th July the city grinds to a halt to celebrate France's National Holiday. Known in France as the 'Fete de la Bastille', or more colloquially as 'quatorze juillet' (the fourteenth of July), the event comemorates the destruction ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/05/12/celebrate-bastille-day-in-paris/ 'Nuit Blanche' is an all-night urban arts festival that takes place in Paris every year on the first Saturday of October. There's no true English translation for Nuit Blanche: literally 'White Night', it's the French phrase for staying up until the early hours - and the official Nuit Blanche festival sees ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/05/11/paris-nuit-blanche/ The carte de sejour is the official residency permit for all visitors to Paris who intend to stay in France for longer than ninety days, or who intend to take up paid work during their visit. No longer required by EU citizens, it is still an absolute obligation for Americans, ... http://parisbynumbers.com/2008/05/04/applying-for-a-carte-de-sejour/