Paris and Beyond Through Expatriate Eyes


Parisians and American ex-pats suggest interesting and hidden areas of Paris and outlying country-sides for you to explore.

Being Parisian
Parisians and American ex-pats in Paris give you insights into Parisian life.


Art in Paris Museums
Art historians guide you through the world of Parisian museums.


The Paris writers Workshop
For as long as Americans, Britons and other English-speakers have been coming to Europe, Paris has been recognised as the city where your artistic or literary talent had the best chance of flowering to its fullest.

In particular, the hilltop community of Montparnasse became a cauldron of creativity. In its great cafes and tiny art galleries,Ernest Hemingway and Man Ray, Scott Fitzgerald and Kiki of Montparnasse, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas worked, loved, socialised, bickered, but, above all, created.    more...


Casablanca had Rick’s Café Américain and Paris has Juan’s La Dernière Goutte, our favorite Paris wine shop.

The refugees that gather on Saturday afternoons at this 6th arrondissement destination when owner Juan Sanchez welcomes one or two of his wine and cognac suppliers for complimentary degustations are not seeking asylum from Nazis-they have come for the joie de vivre that still informs life in the City of Light.    more...


Foire aux Harengs, Dieppe’s Autumn Herring Fair
Saturday morning dawns grey, but not as foggy as I feared. This is our mid-November weekend to take time out, pour sortir de Paris – a weekend away. Destination: Dieppe, an important deep port on the channel coast, and its annual Foire aux Harengs. Dieppe hosts one of many such celebrations that dot the coast every autumn. Le Tréport and St-Valéry-en-Caux also celebrate the herring season with smaller fairs, good excuses to explore the Pays de Caux, amble along Normandy’s alabaster coast, and to taste herring and scallops fresh from channel waters.

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Foraging Among the Fleas, by John Baxter
During a wine tasting trip through Burgundy a few years ago, my wife and I found a wonderfully untidy barn filled with the debris of the centuries. A lot of it dated from World War I, including a number of war-surplus artificial limbs...
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Leonard Pitt in Lost Paris
Few people would guess that this sleepy garden, where life seems to pass in slow motion, is the place where the French revolution ignited in July, 1789. At a time when Montmarte was still a small village outside of Paris and the Champs Elysees was still a wood, the Palais Royal was the center of parisian social life.....
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Bit by Fleas
An American couple, bit by the fleas
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Browsing France's Brocantes with Baxter
Our Dean of Faculty in Paris leads you to France's brocantes (garage sales).
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From One End of the City to the Other in Five Hours
Visit the backbone of paris in one afternoon with Adrian Leeds of Parler Paris.
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Happy Birthday Camembert
Our Normandy Faculty, Don and Petie Kladstrup celebrate the birth of Camembert.
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Kangaroos in Paris?
John Baxter Stalks Outback Game in the 4th Arrondissement.
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In the Footsteps of Hemingway in Paris
Discover the Paris of one of the city's most celebrated literary expatriates.
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Love at Six Stories
John Baxter's thoughts turn to amour in a Paris apartment.
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Postcard from Normandy
Journalists Don & Petie Kladstrup report from the home of camembert and calvadoos
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Still Crazy After All These Years
Our intrepid Paris leader, John Baxter, revisits the Crazy Horse Saloon-someone had to do it!
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Victor Hugo Remembered
PTEE's John Baxter reflects on the life of Victor Hugo
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