- Website
- http://www.paristoparenthood.net
- Description
- After extensive travel for short periods both inside Australia and overseas, I took a break from my health policy job to travel for two months in Spain, Portugal and Morocco and live for four months in France, three of those in Paris. I'm currently living back in Australia with Steve and our twins Rhea and Lara.
![Knowing that our twins were born nine months after our return to Australia, you might think that they had their origin in Paris. In fact they were conceived in a […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/seed-XII-115x115.jpg "Conception")
![Having now had the good fortune to have lived in Paris for three months and explored its many hidden corners, I thought I’d share some of the lesser-known delights with […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/P1050105-115x115.jpg "Secret treasures")
![We found ourselves in a queue of hopefuls on the pavement of a nondescript quartier of Paris, part of a line snaking untidily around the outside corner of a dilapidated […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/redtape.bmp "Stuck"){kind=small}
![Paris – the gastronomic capital of the world. City of fabulous and fabulously expensive restaurants, we sampled one and I will describe the experience. But you don’t need to […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/P1050139-115x115.jpg "La grande bouffe")
![Along a bend in the Seine stand some unusual buildings, which if you look closely you will see are in the shape of tall, open books. This is the enormous […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/P1040458-115x115.jpg "Summer imprints")
![I’m quite a frugal person. I re-use tea bags. And, after washing them, plastic bags and glad wrap. And apart from some underwear and my wedding dress, I haven’t bought […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P1040393-115x115.jpg "I think I’ll go shopping")
![Like the locals, we lounge a lot in the parks. The chairs scattered around ask to be lingered on, they are olive or mustard coloured, and either upright or slightly […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/beggar1-115x115.jpg "Down and Out. . . and About")
![If you come to Paris for a few days or a week, conscientiously or gladly doing the rounds from one museum to another, interspersing a cruise along the Seine perhaps, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P10403881-115x115.jpg "Paris. Paris!")
![Where was I? That’s right, I was talking about miscommunications in Spain. But having no idea what the waitress was saying when she offered us a choice of desserts was […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P1040244-115x115.jpg "Lost in Translation")
![Spain is a country neither of us had been to before and we were curious to experience it for ourselves, and to see how long we could keep a straight […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P1040021-115x115.jpg "Snippets of Spain")