<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Paris</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><description>Paris</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Paris, Making a Neo-Impression]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47383-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47383-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    WHAT:  "Neo-Impressionism From Seurat to Paul Klee" at  Paris's Musee d'Orsay.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris, the Scrawl of Fame]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45466-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45466-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Didn't anyone here study penmanship!?<br> That was my first thought as I strolled through the display cases at Paris's new Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits (Museum of Letters and Manuscripts), an institution that seems dedicated to revealing the manual ineptness of history's heaviest hitters.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris's Place d'Asia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17928-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17928-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a remote corner of Paris's 13th arrondissement, a modest competition is underway. Two Asian men in their twenties are flailing at a Ping-Pong ball, sending wayward smashes and ill-advised spin shots off the table and into the dust of the Parc de Choisy.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Moveable Yeast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15814-2004Jun4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15814-2004Jun4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The waiter squeezed between the tables and clapped the bottle down with a Cheshire grin, practically daring me to drink it. Then, before I could say a word, he vanished into the cigarette haze puffed out by a score of clamoring Parisian diners.  The bottle was clad in blood-red foil and its label depicted a gruesome device familiar to any student of the French Revolution. Its identity was spelled out in crimson letters: La Guillotine.]]></description><author> Seth Sherwood</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[PARIS SHOPPING 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15507-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15507-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> Bought presents for everybody but yourself? There's still time to ask Santa for cash and a plane ticket to Paris so you can hit the spectacular post-holiday sales that start the second week in January. Here are some tips to help you find the deals -- and compensate for an exchange rate that's more naughty than nice</em><em>.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[BASTILLE DAY 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23943-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23943-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WHAT:  The French call it "La Fete Nationale" (National Festival), and with good reason. Bastille Day, which celebrates the storming of the Bastille prison and the start of the French Revolution in 1789, is to France what July 4 is to America -- but with more dancing and fewer hot dogs.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[L'Americaine in Paris: Another View]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28866-2003Apr4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28866-2003Apr4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ihave sublet an apartment from an artist that is fantasy Paris: all floor-to-ceiling windows with billowing sheer curtains and open space. It is in the 3rd arrondissement, skimming the top of the Marais neighborhood and bordering on the grittier streets around Place de la Republique. And I am on my dream assignment, having received a fellowship to study Muslim integration and ethnic tension in France.]]></description><author> Sarah Wildman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[This April in Paris]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28859-2003Apr4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28859-2003Apr4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Are the rumors of anti-Americanism in Europe true? Our correspondents speak to U.S. visitors in Paris.]]></description><author> Gary Lee and Ethan Gilsdorf</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[PARIS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25999-2003Mar14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25999-2003Mar14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I live in Paris, I love Paris, but after a few weeks of nonstop gray (in the literal but also architectural, botanical, meteorological and existential senses), a change of color is in order. Luckily, the Ile-de-France, that 20- to 50-mile-wide, mostly undeveloped belt of land that rings Paris, can give the drabbest city existence a quick country fix.]]></description><author> Ethan Gilsdorf</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night Train From Hell]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19214-2002Dec6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19214-2002Dec6.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Leafing through a budget travel magazine, I spy a brilliant money-saving tip: "Consider taking an overnight train for a long-distance trip in Europe and book an inexpensive, second-class couchette."]]></description><author> Alicia C. Shepard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bistro Burden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54189-2002Nov29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54189-2002Nov29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For many, the informal mom-and-pop Paris bistro, with its simple decor, zinc bar, tile floor and paper tablecloths, embodies the quintessential French dining experience. On the menu you can expect an array of French classics, like lentil or goat cheese salad, steak<em> frites</em> and<em> confit du canard</em> (conserved duck). You'll probably discover newer recipes, too: perhaps a fricassee of wild mushrooms on a bed of greens, or skate fish in beurre blanc. Then, in due course, the desserts: rhubarb tart, crhme br{lie or, if you're lucky, a warm<em> moelleux</em> -- a mousselike cake that oozes across your plate like chocolate lava.]]></description><author> Ethan Gilsdorf</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris in August: Like a Cemetery]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27044-2002Aug16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27044-2002Aug16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Excuse me, I'm looking for  some kind of fertility thing. Do you know where I'll find it?"]]></description><author> William Triplett</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Budget Bistro? C'est Vrai.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36659-2002Aug2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36659-2002Aug2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The French are convivial diners, so the solitary diner sticks out like a sore thumb in Paris. But at Chartier, a restaurant that opened in 1896 and still has its original white marble tables on brass stands, people who show up alone find dinner companions at communal tables. Americans, French, Italians, British, Irish, Germans -- everyone sits together at the same or neighboring tables, and everyone talks to each other, like strangers on a train.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because Oui  Like You]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61671-2002Jul12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61671-2002Jul12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ah, Paris. How the word conjures images of walks along the Seine, the Tuileries Gardens in bloom, the outdoor cafes.]]></description><author> Robert V. Camuto</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: Paris]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60735-2001Mar26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60735-2001Mar26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One affordable luxury in Paris I try never to miss: ice cream from Berthillon (31 Rue St.-Louis-en-l'Ile). Between snacks, here's where I like to dine:]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SHOESTRING EUROPE Paris]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16680-2001Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16680-2001Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[AIRFARES:  Now's a good time to snag a cheap flight to the City of Light. Through April, Delta is offering round-trip flights between Dulles and Charles de Gaulle for just over $400 -- but the sale fare must be purchased online at www.delta.com no later than tomorrow. Fares on Air France, Sabena, Lufthansa, United and some other carriers are competitive, though you may have to change planes in Brussels or another European gateway. In May, fares go up to about $710 on Air France and United, which both offer nonstop service to Paris from Dulles. Prices for the summer jump to about $960 round trip.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Couples]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61050-2000Dec28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61050-2000Dec28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FOUR DAYS: Bermuda]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday To Moi]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42180-2000Nov19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42180-2000Nov19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My plan was simple: Go to Paris. Turn 50. Return home.]]></description><author> K.C. Summers</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris the Right Way]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12272-2000Nov4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12272-2000Nov4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Guidebooks to France have long touted the Left Bank of Paris as where it's at--the side of the Seine with the most fashionable boutiques, hippest cafes and most charmant dining spots. After all, this is the part of the French capital where the Lost Generation came to find itself, the place with the chic reputation and the in-crowd following.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[April in Paris? I don't think so.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35281-2000Apr7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35281-2000Apr7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/france/paris</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom,]]></description><author> Rose Marie Burke</author></item></channel></rss>