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I recently switched from PHPBB software to VBulletin, mostly for the ease of handling SPAM, but also for refinements to how questions & answers are posted.

VBulletin is a paid service, costing about 100£/year if you…

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the site outage between March 4th and 7th.  There was another site (of mine) on this web server that went haywire and swallowed up all the memory and most of the CPU…

A friend of mine recently became a fan of TED (Technology. Entertainment. Design) and it led me to watch this 18 minute talk on creative genius by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,…

I recently met Rosa Jackson, a Canadian culinary educator & prolific food writer based in Nice & Paris.  She currently offers French Provençal cooking classes in sunny Nice with her cooking school …

I’ll be out of the office for a few days in Lyon on some consulting work.  I won’t be able to respond to questions on the ParisByTrain.com forums with the timeliness that I’d…

I recently met Gail Bosclair of Perfectly Paris which offers Paris vacation apartment rentals in the Montmartre area.

Visitors to Paris these days are getting savvy to the idea of renting out apartments for…

On December 31st (New Year’s Eve), certain Paris Metro & RER lines stay open and operational all night long.

Paris Metro lines operating all night: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 et 14 the evening of New…

You can now take a virtual walking tour of Paris with Google’s Street View service on Google Maps.

As you can see, the…