Taxi drivers and motorists alike have been left incensed by a local government project to convert a stretch of Paris’s busiest road into pedestrian heaven. The plans look pretty, but the resulting traffic jams won’t.
The neighbourhood brocante in Paris falls somewhere between an antique market and a garage sale. While some sift through second-hand goods in search of a bargain buy, others use the event to spend time with friends and unload unused possessions.
Not quite a spa or a bathhouse, a hammam falls somewhere between the two. After Paris' drab winter and more or less miserable spring, what better place to shake of a case of bad weather blues?