Paris Travel Services with Terrance Gelenter

MidDay in Paris

Terrance — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:39:36 +0000

Woody Allen served up an appetizer with his hit movie Midnight in Paris. Now our good friend and acclaimed author John Baxter serves the main course.

In celebration of the tenth printing of his best-selling memoir of the City of Light, The Most Beautiful Walk in the [...]

Airport Transfer & Transportation

Larry — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:35:56 +0000

When you arrive in Paris, particularly after a long trip from the West Coast of the United States or Australia, do you really want to schlep your luggage curbside and wait in line to squeeze into a little taxi? – And if you are a party of four you will require two [...]

Goering at Nuremberg/Theatre Vingtieme

Terrance — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:11:53 +0000

March 4

Nuremberg-la fin de Goering

If Mel Brooks had staged this play he might have called it My Favorite Nazi.

Hermann Goering was far and away the most fascinating and contradictory of that evil band of brothers who scarred the world for life. An aficionado of first growth [...]

Berenice Abbott & Assagio-A Museum & a Meal

Terrance — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:53:17 +0000

March 20

Our popular Museum & a meal program continues with an English-language guided tour of the Berenice Abbott exhibit at the Jeu de Paume followed by lunch at Assagio, a destination for elegant dining.

Berenice Abbott

Her images of 1930s New York convey her fascination with an urban landscape in the [...]

Le Canton

Terrance — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:20:37 +0000

My daughter discovered this charming, family run restaurant that like almost all Paris Asian restaurants combines the cuisine of at least two countries–in this case Vietnamese and Chinese. Big bowls of soup, Pho and crevettes with ravioli were being inhaled by neighboring diners and at 10 euros a perfect one-dish meals.

But [...]

A Master Class in Networking

Terrance — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:34:19 +0000

It was a polar day in Paris with temperatures dropping into the teens (Farenheit.) So cold in fact that my diminutive (in stature only) daughter was barely recognizable bundled up in a fur (Artificial)-lined ski parka that wrapped around her frosty cheeks as she approached me at our meeting place, Metro Mabillon, [...]

The Paris Cinema Club

Terrance — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:08:08 +0000

Welcome to The Paris Cinema Club where each week we will meet for a classic film in VO at the Action Christine or Grand Action cinemas. I will open the program in the Lobby Bar with a brief intro to the film, the cast, director and supply historical context.A complimentary glass [...]

Albion, 10th arrondissement

Terrance — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:58:38 +0000

If you’ve been to FISH in the last eight years then you’ve been served a drink by Hayden Clout, the Kiwi barman.

He’s piggy-backed that experience and joined with former FISH chef Matthew Ong to create this combination bistro and cave where you can walk out the door with very drinkable [...]

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Memoirs of Montparnasse

Terrance — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:16:44 +0000

Memoirs of Montparnasse/John Glassco Jan/Feb

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the [...]