Grand Palais Paris New Year’s Eve
Grand Palais in Paris along avenue Champs-Elysées on New Year’s Eve 2008. Paris city events planners know how to light their buildings.
TGV Map
France TGV Map showing high speed train lines in deep purple and light purple (click to enlarge). This TGV Map shows the main TGV destinations in France: Paris Rennes Nantes Bordeaux Montpellier Marseille Lyon Strasbourg The principal France TGV routes shown on the TGV map include: TGV South-East (Sud Est) Line (leaving from Gare de … Read more
Paris Apartment Rentals
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 a few days to a week at a time. They end up paying less than they would for a hotel while … Read more
Lyon January 27-28
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 prefer, but rest assured, I’ll get back to you by Friday or shortly thereafter. Have a great week everyone.
TGV Pro Tickets Exchange Refund
TGV Pro train ticket exchange & refund policies are unique. I’ll attempt to explain the conditions of sale for these business class TGV train tickets below. First misconception: Pro tickets are first class train tickets. This is not true. Pro tickets can be bought for seats in either the first class or second class train … Read more
Paris Market Tours – Nice Cooking Classes
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 Les Petits Farcis. When not in Nice, she’s leading culinary/market tours in Paris (Edible Paris). If you’re looking to get to know the … Read more
Inspiration – Elizabeth Gilbert
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, Pray, Love. She talks about inspiration, where it comes from, how people deal with it, and offers an idea of how to we … Read more
Site Outage March 4 – 7
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 processing power, rending my dear ParisByTrain site unavailable. Rest assured, I’m still here and the site will stay up … Read more
New Paris by Train Forum
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 keep up with all the updates. PHPBB is free which lends itself to the try-before-buy methodology, which I did. … Read more
Explanation: Train Stations in Paris
In Paris, a train station is known as a “gare“. The word “station” in French generally refers to Metro stations. Buses and trams have stops or “arrêts“. Gares serve surface level trains traveling in and out of the city of Paris to surrounding suburbs and further out to cities both nationally around France and internationally … Read more