Author: Zara Surti
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Travelling to and from a new country in a day can be exhausting, but it is also equally exciting to many
At 8:05 am on a nippy Saturday morning in March, Irene Jeong got on a Flixbus at Paris’s Bercy Bourgogne and four hours later, pulled into Brussels. Instead of checking in at a hotel, she immediately got to walking around the city to visit the Belgian capital’s major landmarks such as the Manneken Pis, St.…
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Paris’s Anti-Café Cafés
The phrase “Parisian Café” conjures up a movie stereotype: Europeans whiling away their afternoon outdoors, drinking an espresso and chatting with a cigarette in hand. That image has been immortalized in La La Land, Before Sunset and Amélie. In fact, we have become so acquainted with associating cafés to Paris that in the thumbnail for…
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The Fading Hues of the Rainbow in Paris’s Marais
Despite the low temperatures typical of a late February night, the atmosphere inside Le Tango Paris was hot and sweaty as the crowd, drowned in dim red lights, danced to the booming music of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever”. When the lyrics “we’re meant to be together” played, same sex couples inched closer together under the disco…
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Combining Passion with Publishing: An Interview with Katia Barillot
For 25 years, Katia Barillot has watched her Parisian neighborhood – Le Marais – evolve from a working class enclave to a trendy scene with luxury boutiques and chic art galleries. After working as a columnist, presenter, and journalist for companies like Canal+, France 3, and TV5Monde, Barillot decided to launch her own publication that…
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