Navigation for Newcomers and Near-Natives

For the straight news, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune is on-line, as well as the politics-free Tocqueville Connection (which has a groovy currency converter, and a place to search for Paris residents' phone numbers). If you've been in Paris long enough, you may not need to read the Anglophone news anymore, but you shouldn't miss the weekly Good Morning Paris. It's my new favorite site because of its perfect combination of in-depth news on everything and entertaining gossip and articles. It looks great, and although it packs loads of up-to-date information onto its site, it's not cluttered. If a site could get six stars, this one would have it.

Feeling good about your French? A few French publications can be found on-line, including Libération, the business and financial news of Les Echos, Le Parisien, The Paris Match, or Le Monde, with audio and video, if your computer can take it.

If you still can't find what you need, let me know, and I'll either help you find it on the web, or log off and go out on foot to find the answer!° Then once you're all informed and 'in the loop', unplug yourself and get out there and have some fun! After all, you didn't come to Paris to surf, did you?

°Just don't ask me how to find a furnished apartment in St-Germain-des-Pres with a full bath, American kitchen, two bedrooms, and a balcony on the inner courtyard, for 7000ff a month. Why? Stay tuned for my crazed rantings on renting a flat in Paris: "Room with a...Phew! What's that smell!?"

Next week: "The After Midnight Special": sites where nightcrawlers can find bars, clubs, cafés, tabacs, pharmacies, post offices, and flower shops.

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