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Dear Paris Plus Plus Subscribers, As I’m sure many of you will be aware, there has been a gap over the last month or so of my blog posts. While some of you have continued to receive each post, many of you have not—perhaps starting to think that…

BEAUTIFUL COLMAR – GATEWAY TO THE ALSACE

Categories: France, Alsace Lorraine

The charming town of Colmar is the ideal place to start exploring the so-called Route du Vin, and all the picturesque towns and villages of the Alsatian wine-growing region. It doesn’t get any prettier than Colmar, with its picturesque half-tim…

MULHOUSE – AT THE CROSSROADS OF THREE COUNTRIES

Categories: France, Alsace Lorraine

The city of Mulhouse is located in the far south of the Alsace region, on the Ill river and a canal of the river Rhine, between the Vosges and Jura mountains, at the crossroads of three countries: France, Switzerland and Germany. Its location i…

THE BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES COUVERTS OF PARIS

Categories: Paris City – Attractions

The famous passages couverts—covered passages—of Paris were an early form of shopping arcades, mostly dating from the first half of the 19th century. By the 1850s, there were around 150 covered passages in Paris, although Haussmann’s…