Visit Paris France with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows scenes from Notre Dame, the Marché aux Puces (the flea market), Montmartre, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Gare de Lyon (train [...]

This picture was taken of the Eiffel Tower on a rainy night in Paris. The long shutter speed not only turned the passing car into a blur, but the tower seems to [...]

At one end of the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triumph was built to honor those who died in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars. It also houses the Grave of the [...]

You won’t find as many Bohemians at this cafe in Paris in the Montmartre neighborhood as you might have at one time. You will tend to find tourists these days, but it [...]

This photo shows one of the reasons that the neighborhood of Montmartre in Paris is one of my favorites in the city as a photographer. And this is on a Winter’s day, [...]

I find even the news stands of Paris to be somewhat iconic. This one is along the wonderful shopping street of Boulevard Saint-Germain.

The area behind Sacre Ceour on Montmartre in France is one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city as a photographer. It is a heavily touristed neighborhood, but it is also colorful [...]

On our most recent trip to Europe we took the train from Paris to Geneva. Flying would also have been an option but there are some good reasons why a train ride [...]

In April on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I had a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Notre Dame” is from David Elwood David says: I was visiting Notre [...]

Institut du Monde Arabe (Institut of the Arab world), located in Paris’ 5th arrondissement, is at once museum, library and cultural centre. A Franco-Arab project, it also hosts a Lebanese panoramic rooftop [...]