This might seem like a weird subject, but many of my students seem baffled by the European style bathtub: a regular bathtub, with a hand shower at the end of a cord, and very often no shower curtain or glass separator. "How the heck am I supposed to wash my hair??" they often ask...

Today, I'll unravel the mystery ;-)

It's never fun to become ill when you are traveling, but should you become sick in France, here are a couple of tips about French doctors, medicine, hosptials and pharmacies that should help you out.

It is doubly appropriate that we end our e-tour of Paris's monuments with a monument of monuments—one that is literally the end of the line for many!

"A truly tragic street lamp"

"Belfry skeleton"

"Mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed"

"A carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository"

Beside being the home address of Quasimodo—literature's best known hunchback and bell ringer—Notre Dame is also home to Point Zéro, the center of Paris.

On our way to Notre Dame from Sacré-Coeur we will make a quick stop in front of the Louvre—one of the oldest, largest galleries on the planet—just to get some background history.

The trip from the Moulin Rouge to Sacré-Coeur is a journey from sinners to saints!

"A good gardener must have passion for new discoveries"
~Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, 1690

While not really a monument, the name (meaning red windmill), and the exterior of this—perhaps the world's best know nightclub—have certainly become an established site in Paris.

A six-minute walk takes you from the Madeleine to the Paris Opéra—aka Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris, and Académie Nationale de Musique (not to be mistaken with l'Opéra Bastille, place de la Bastille).