I'm just getting into my new trip. This time I'm in France ' working on TV shows and updating our France and Paris guidebooks with my co-author Steve Smith.

I've spent this past week in Paris working on the guidebook. With the luxury of an entire week to settle into one place, I've been able to connect with this city like never before: sipping a kir before dinner (a genteel-feeling way to begin a meal)...spending enough time to really "be" in the Orangerie so I could take a virtual stroll around the edge of Monet's lily pond with the artist himself...developing a taste for pistachio macaroons...looking forward to hearing the folk troupe of Russian musicians that plays in the M

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