Marty Almquist

Musée D’Orsay

The Musee D’Orsay is one of my favorite museums. It is in a beautiful building- a former train station built around 1900 with a wonderful soaring vaulted ceiling. There was a large renovation in 2011 and I’m looking forward to seeing the new space. This is the home of a large collection of Impressionist and […]

Traveling Around Paris

I just read David Lebovitz’s post on taxi service http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2013/08/paris-taxi-news/ in Paris and it reminded me what an anti-taxi snob I am (ask my mother-in-law- she’ll tell you!). The public transportation service in Paris, metro and bus, is so good that I honestly see very little reason to ever take a taxi in Paris itself. […]

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