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VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
In this two-hour WRITE YOUR OWN RULES workshop we’ll explore creating your own guiding principles to propel you forward being sure to relate them to your own story, interests, and vision for your future. You’ll be presented with engaging, interactive exercises pulling from design thinking, UX, and creativity coaching to get you reflecting and thinking with fresh eyes, guided by creative ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne currently consults and collaborates with various brands and businesses around design and storytelling; teaches user experience design on OpenClassrooms, teaches Map Making, The Art of the Travel Posters, Basic InDesign (+ InDesign in 30 Minutes), and Redesign Your Résumé on Skillshare; is the author of the Herb Lester Paris Small Shops guide, and helps people plan their Paris through DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyVISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light. WWW.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM www.pret-a-voyager.com THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO From the Cat in the Hat to Green Eggs and Ha m, Dr. Seuss definitely was an expert at his craft. But hearing the book again, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, the words are full of lessons we can learn from at any age, or anywhere even at Burning Man. {Oh, the Places You’ll GoBurning Man style.
FRENCH LESSONS: IL M’A POSÉ UN LAPIN French Lessons: Il m’a posé un lapin. Rendezvous has long been one of my favorite French words as it can apply to a “meeting” of any sorts, from a visit to the dentist to a hot date. Il m’a posé un lapin is a phrase that makes me laugh. Literally “to put down arabbit” is
HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
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In this two-hour WRITE YOUR OWN RULES workshop we’ll explore creating your own guiding principles to propel you forward being sure to relate them to your own story, interests, and vision for your future. You’ll be presented with engaging, interactive exercises pulling from design thinking, UX, and creativity coaching to get you reflecting and thinking with fresh eyes, guided by creative ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne currently consults and collaborates with various brands and businesses around design and storytelling; teaches user experience design on OpenClassrooms, teaches Map Making, The Art of the Travel Posters, Basic InDesign (+ InDesign in 30 Minutes), and Redesign Your Résumé on Skillshare; is the author of the Herb Lester Paris Small Shops guide, and helps people plan their Paris through DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyVISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light. WWW.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM www.pret-a-voyager.com THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO From the Cat in the Hat to Green Eggs and Ha m, Dr. Seuss definitely was an expert at his craft. But hearing the book again, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, the words are full of lessons we can learn from at any age, or anywhere even at Burning Man. {Oh, the Places You’ll GoBurning Man style.
FRENCH LESSONS: IL M’A POSÉ UN LAPIN French Lessons: Il m’a posé un lapin. Rendezvous has long been one of my favorite French words as it can apply to a “meeting” of any sorts, from a visit to the dentist to a hot date. Il m’a posé un lapin is a phrase that makes me laugh. Literally “to put down arabbit” is
HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne currently consults and collaborates with various brands and businesses around design and storytelling; teaches user experience design on OpenClassrooms, teaches Map Making, The Art of the Travel Posters, Basic InDesign (+ InDesign in 30 Minutes), and Redesign Your Résumé on Skillshare; is the author of the Herb Lester Paris Small Shops guide, and helps people plan their Paris through IT’S BANANAS. A CREATIVEMORNINGS JOURNEY. It’s Bananas. A CreativeMornings journey. I’ve been invited to read the CreativeMornings manifesto at their NYC chapter event on Friday. Things like this don’t happen everyday, so I made a banana map to commemorate the occasion, and the journey! This graphic may just be the most extra thing I’ve ever done. (No, no one asked me todo this.)
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French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
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The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM
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Life in France is AWESOME, but it also can be frustrating, lack customer service, be lonely at times, and feel like an endless road of bureaucracy. Things don’t always progress in a common sensical way as one may expect. C’est comme ça . I do my best to share my experiences as a way for others to learn. {UN}GLAMOROUS PARIS: FINDING AN APARTMENT In a recent search, someone recently recommended Hestia to me – it’s an agency with lower fees, but seemed quite reputable and impressive when I checked it out (although I did not visit any apartments). {Un}Glamorous Paris is a multi-part series sharing the less than perfect side to living in Paris. Click HERE to read Chapter1 : Paperwork.
FRENCH LESSONS: LA CHANDELEUR Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakes known as crêpes. The holiday with religious roots is also known as Candlemas and falls on the 40th day of the Christmas-Epiphany season, and is the last feast of the Christmascycle.
OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO I remember being in elementary school and thinking it was strange that my mother was giving my cousins who were graduating from high school / college a Dr. Seuss book: Oh, the Places You’ll Go.From the Cat in the Hat to Green Eggs and Ha m, Dr. Seuss definitely was an expert at his craft. But hearing the book again, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, the words are full of lessons we can learn from PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne Stark Ditmeyer is creative coach and workshop facilitator with a design mind. Anne founded Prêt à Voyager (translation: “ready to travel”) on Bastille Day 2007 to explore the creative ways people travel, and explore the intersection of travel and design. She believes that travel is not about where you go, but how you see theworld.
DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyVISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light. NEW YEAR, NEW MAP. 2021: THE YEAR OF AUDACITY For me, it’s making a map to help guide me into the New Year. 2020 my map was all about exploration. For 2021, it’s all about audacity. On my Biz Blog I broke down what my word for the year means for me (where you can also view the map full size). This year’s key locations in AudaCITY include the Moon, the Path of Possibility, theIsland
MAKE A MAP (RE-ENTRY EDITION) FIELDTRIP! I’m excited to announce that my CreativeMornings Make a Map!FieldTrip is BACK! This time with a new twist. In the “re-entry edition” our maps will be an opportunity for reflect on our personal journeys through pandemic times using creative maps. THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. FRENCH LESSONS: IL M’A POSÉ UN LAPIN French Lessons: Il m’a posé un lapin. Rendezvous has long been one of my favorite French words as it can apply to a “meeting” of any sorts, from a visit to the dentist to a hot date. Il m’a posé un lapin is a phrase that makes me laugh. Literally “to put down arabbit” is
HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne Stark Ditmeyer is creative coach and workshop facilitator with a design mind. Anne founded Prêt à Voyager (translation: “ready to travel”) on Bastille Day 2007 to explore the creative ways people travel, and explore the intersection of travel and design. She believes that travel is not about where you go, but how you see theworld.
DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyVISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light. NEW YEAR, NEW MAP. 2021: THE YEAR OF AUDACITY For me, it’s making a map to help guide me into the New Year. 2020 my map was all about exploration. For 2021, it’s all about audacity. On my Biz Blog I broke down what my word for the year means for me (where you can also view the map full size). This year’s key locations in AudaCITY include the Moon, the Path of Possibility, theIsland
MAKE A MAP (RE-ENTRY EDITION) FIELDTRIP! I’m excited to announce that my CreativeMornings Make a Map!FieldTrip is BACK! This time with a new twist. In the “re-entry edition” our maps will be an opportunity for reflect on our personal journeys through pandemic times using creative maps. THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. FRENCH LESSONS: IL M’A POSÉ UN LAPIN French Lessons: Il m’a posé un lapin. Rendezvous has long been one of my favorite French words as it can apply to a “meeting” of any sorts, from a visit to the dentist to a hot date. Il m’a posé un lapin is a phrase that makes me laugh. Literally “to put down arabbit” is
HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne currently consults and collaborates with various brands and businesses around design and storytelling; teaches user experience design on OpenClassrooms, teaches Map Making, The Art of the Travel Posters, Basic InDesign (+ InDesign in 30 Minutes), and Redesign Your Résumé on Skillshare; is the author of the Herb Lester Paris Small Shops guide, and helps people plan their Paris through MAPOLOGY GUIDES FOR LIFE Mapology Guides take maps a step further thinking about maps in terms about concepts and ideas rather than physical places, not confined by location, landmarks, or sites to see. They’re illustrated self-help maps for life’s journey. I first met Mapology Guide creator Tina Bernstein at Betahaus in Berlin where we were for The Hive Berlin, a IT’S BANANAS. A CREATIVEMORNINGS JOURNEY. It’s Bananas. A CreativeMornings journey. I’ve been invited to read the CreativeMornings manifesto at their NYC chapter event on Friday. Things like this don’t happen everyday, so I made a banana map to commemorate the occasion, and the journey! This graphic may just be the most extra thing I’ve ever done. (No, no one asked me todo this.)
VISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM
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HOW TO MAKE CROISSANTS AT LA CUISINE PARIS Eating a croissant will never be the same again. It only took 11 years of living in Paris for me to learn what goes into making a proper croissant: patience, time, and BUTTER (one of my favorite foods!). BLACK LIVES MATTER: HOW TO BE AN ALLY Hi Anne, Thank you for taking the time to put this article together. I personally found it honest and helpful. My hope is that those who read it will follow your example to sit with themselves and understand the role they have played in systemic racism, so THE PROBLEM OF OVERTOURISM The problem of overtourism. Let’s imagine you’re going for a walk in your neighborhood. But you step outside your front door and there’s a hoard of 30 people walking by. They’re hardly paying attention to anything, let alone realizing that you’re there and just trying to cross the street. They may have headphones for an audioguide in
{UN}GLAMOROUS PARIS: FINDING AN APARTMENT In a recent search, someone recently recommended Hestia to me – it’s an agency with lower fees, but seemed quite reputable and impressive when I checked it out (although I did not visit any apartments). {Un}Glamorous Paris is a multi-part series sharing the less than perfect side to living in Paris. Click HERE to read Chapter1 : Paperwork.
FRENCH LESSONS: LA CHANDELEUR Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakes known as crêpes. The holiday with religious roots is also known as Candlemas and falls on the 40th day of the Christmas-Epiphany season, and is the last feast of the Christmascycle.
PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyFRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
A STORY ABOUT GNOMES + THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER! A Story About Gnomes + the BEST Birthday Cake EVER! Celebrating your birthday for the 2nd year in a row during a pandemic is not how anyone wants to celebrate their birthday, especially when you’re celebrating a milestone. I decided to flip the script and make the most of it anyway. I’m grateful for incredible friends who helpedensure that
MYP ACCOUNTABILITY BOOSTER GROUP (STARTS MAY 3!) MYP Accountability Booster Group (Starts May 3!) The past year has had me exploring all sorts of places I never thought I’d get to go. Thanks to the internet I’ve been able to create something special through my Mapping Your Path communities which attract wonderful, kind-hearted humans around the world.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM
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FRENCH BUREAUCRACY, EXPLAINED One of the things about having a social media presence and clearly being an expat in France is that people can easily find me. Hence I get a lot of questions and emails that go something like: Dear Anne, I want to move to France.I’ve sent dozen of email responses which I tend to never hear back from (I fear it’s because what I say isn’t always what people want to hear). FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyFRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
A STORY ABOUT GNOMES + THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER! A Story About Gnomes + the BEST Birthday Cake EVER! Celebrating your birthday for the 2nd year in a row during a pandemic is not how anyone wants to celebrate their birthday, especially when you’re celebrating a milestone. I decided to flip the script and make the most of it anyway. I’m grateful for incredible friends who helpedensure that
MYP ACCOUNTABILITY BOOSTER GROUP (STARTS MAY 3!) MYP Accountability Booster Group (Starts May 3!) The past year has had me exploring all sorts of places I never thought I’d get to go. Thanks to the internet I’ve been able to create something special through my Mapping Your Path communities which attract wonderful, kind-hearted humans around the world.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM
pret-a-voyager.com
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY, EXPLAINED One of the things about having a social media presence and clearly being an expat in France is that people can easily find me. Hence I get a lot of questions and emails that go something like: Dear Anne, I want to move to France.I’ve sent dozen of email responses which I tend to never hear back from (I fear it’s because what I say isn’t always what people want to hear). FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. HOW TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE IN PARIS (OR A LESSON IN EXTREME How to receive a package in Paris (or a lesson in extreme patience) Repeat after me: What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I think an internet friend who recently moved to Paris said it best when she has moved past the honeymoon stage to “this is still awesome but incredibly challenging at times” phase. She described it as havinghigher
ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne Stark Ditmeyer is creative coach and workshop facilitator with a design mind. Anne founded Prêt à Voyager (translation: “ready to travel”) on Bastille Day 2007 to explore the creative ways people travel, and explore the intersection of travel and design. She believes that travel is not about where you go, but how you see theworld.
FRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
VISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM
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ENTER THE NEW YEAR WITH INTENTION: MAPPING YOUR PATH INTO This 3-month workshop is about exploration and creativity, with full permission to slow down and detour as needed. It’s about intentionally slowing down to take stock of where you’re at, and where you want to be. It’s about preparing yourself for the New Year now rather than coming up with a half-baked resolution when the clockstrikes
THE NEW PARISIENNE: THE WOMEN & IDEAS SHAPING PARIS (Q&A The book is broken down into activists, creators, disruptors, storytellers, “taste” makers, and visionaries. AD: You point out “parisiennes” are often conflated with French women. One of the main goals of this book is to highlight the fact that there is a muchricher view
MAPPING YOUR PATH: FINDING DIRECTION (STARTS FEB 5 Mapping Your Path: Finding Direction is about shaking things up, exploring, and having fun while you’re at it, all while being part of something more and in community so that you can start to make real progress, as defined by you. It all starts February 5th. MYP is about setting yourself up for success for the path you really want to be on FRENCH LESSONS: AVOIR UN OEIL AU BEURRE NOIR From paperclips to cows, I’m not sure today’s French Lesson was the best phrase to illustrate, but it was an excellent exercise in figuring out how to simplify the forms as much as possible to make it clear to the viewer. Do you see it? An eye + a stick of black butter. Avoir un oeil au beurre noir, has become a phrase near and dear to me because a) I find it so odd (literal translation “CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS” OF WORKING (& FREELANCING) IN Students have the right to work 50% with a student visa. This can mean working part time throughout the year, or full-time for half of the year. (FYI, I had more working rights as a student than I did with my business status). It’s also worth noting that French universities in MAKING BORING DOCUMENTS BEAUTIFUL (SKILLSHARE) I like to think of it as “making boring documents beautiful.”. A well designed document can change how a client perceives you and make you stand out from the competition, not to mention, make it easier for the reader to digest the content. All Skillshare classes are project driven and the assignment for this class is to redesign your PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyFRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
A STORY ABOUT GNOMES + THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER! A Story About Gnomes + the BEST Birthday Cake EVER! Celebrating your birthday for the 2nd year in a row during a pandemic is not how anyone wants to celebrate their birthday, especially when you’re celebrating a milestone. I decided to flip the script and make the most of it anyway. I’m grateful for incredible friends who helpedensure that
MYP ACCOUNTABILITY BOOSTER GROUP (STARTS MAY 3!) MYP Accountability Booster Group (Starts May 3!) The past year has had me exploring all sorts of places I never thought I’d get to go. Thanks to the internet I’ve been able to create something special through my Mapping Your Path communities which attract wonderful, kind-hearted humans around the world. FRENCH BUREAUCRACY, EXPLAINED One of the things about having a social media presence and clearly being an expat in France is that people can easily find me. Hence I get a lot of questions and emails that go something like: Dear Anne, I want to move to France.I’ve sent dozen of email responses which I tend to never hear back from (I fear it’s because what I say isn’t always what people want to hear). FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. 12 YEARS OF BLOGGING: HOW I LOST This post is a good prompt to say thank you! I’ve been reading this blog for maybe 7 years since I was a teenager and getting ready to travel abroad for the first time. WHAT LIVING IN FRANCE HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT BURNOUT Fellow American shocked by European vacation time too – and now, spoiled by it. Also worth mentioning that the Danes have a generally shorter work week – Friday generally ends at 2pm, and all parents are allowed to leave early to pick up and spend time with their kids. PRÊT À VOYAGERABOUTLIFE IN FRANCEVISIT PARISPARIS TOURSI'M HOSTINGVIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
A realization that sometimes slowing down is how you go further, faster. A feeling of inspiration, fulfilment, and new confidence to carry forward. Reminders to find joy and have fun. Permission to explore, experiment, and try new things. DEAR FRENCH GOVERNMENT, . . . Dear French Government, . . . | Prêt à Voyager. Dear French Government, . . . How is it that we are still here? My birthday was a year ago, so I know all too well when this all started. I’ve seen amazing progress and hope. That’s whyFRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
THE ROAD TO FRENCH CITIZENSHIP The Road to French Citizenship. On June 16, 2016 I became French. Getting French citizenship was the “easy” part, staying in France was the real challenge. The most exciting part is that I never have to go to the Prefecture to renew my paperwork as a foreigner again, otherwise what was known as “my least favorite day of theyear”.
A STORY ABOUT GNOMES + THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER! A Story About Gnomes + the BEST Birthday Cake EVER! Celebrating your birthday for the 2nd year in a row during a pandemic is not how anyone wants to celebrate their birthday, especially when you’re celebrating a milestone. I decided to flip the script and make the most of it anyway. I’m grateful for incredible friends who helpedensure that
MYP ACCOUNTABILITY BOOSTER GROUP (STARTS MAY 3!) MYP Accountability Booster Group (Starts May 3!) The past year has had me exploring all sorts of places I never thought I’d get to go. Thanks to the internet I’ve been able to create something special through my Mapping Your Path communities which attract wonderful, kind-hearted humans around the world. FRENCH BUREAUCRACY, EXPLAINED One of the things about having a social media presence and clearly being an expat in France is that people can easily find me. Hence I get a lot of questions and emails that go something like: Dear Anne, I want to move to France.I’ve sent dozen of email responses which I tend to never hear back from (I fear it’s because what I say isn’t always what people want to hear). FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. 12 YEARS OF BLOGGING: HOW I LOST This post is a good prompt to say thank you! I’ve been reading this blog for maybe 7 years since I was a teenager and getting ready to travel abroad for the first time. WHAT LIVING IN FRANCE HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT BURNOUT Fellow American shocked by European vacation time too – and now, spoiled by it. Also worth mentioning that the Danes have a generally shorter work week – Friday generally ends at 2pm, and all parents are allowed to leave early to pick up and spend time with their kids. ABOUT | PRÊT À VOYAGER Anne Stark Ditmeyer is creative coach and workshop facilitator with a design mind. Anne founded Prêt à Voyager (translation: “ready to travel”) on Bastille Day 2007 to explore the creative ways people travel, and explore the intersection of travel and design. She believes that travel is not about where you go, but how you see theworld.
FRENCH LESSONS
French Lessons: la Chandeleur. Looking for an excuse to eat crêpes this weekend? You’re in luck, it’s la Chandeleur! Long before the trends of National Donut Day or Nutella Day, Chandeleur is a holiday that falls on February 2nd where people eat the thin French pancakesknown as crêpes.
VISIT PARIS
The RER commuter line is an easy way into the city from the airports. Here is a guide with several options when you first arrive in Paris (including from Beauvais ). Taxis are now fixed price–ONLY take a marked taxi, or public transportation. Speaking of travel, pack light. WWW.PRET-A-VOYAGER.COM www.pret-a-voyager.com THE PROBLEM OF OVERTOURISM The problem of overtourism. Let’s imagine you’re going for a walk in your neighborhood. But you step outside your front door and there’s a hoard of 30 people walking by. They’re hardly paying attention to anything, let alone realizing that you’re there and just trying to cross the street. They may have headphones for an audioguide in
MAPPING YOUR PATH: FINDING DIRECTION (STARTS FEB 5 Mapping Your Path: Finding Direction is about shaking things up, exploring, and having fun while you’re at it, all while being part of something more and in community so that you can start to make real progress, as defined by you. It all starts February 5th. MYP is about setting yourself up for success for the path you really want to be on THE NEW PARISIENNE: THE WOMEN & IDEAS SHAPING PARIS (Q&A The book is broken down into activists, creators, disruptors, storytellers, “taste” makers, and visionaries. AD: You point out “parisiennes” are often conflated with French women. One of the main goals of this book is to highlight the fact that there is a muchricher view
FRENCH LESSON: JE T’AIME BIEN French Lesson: Je t’aime bien. Je t’aime. I love you. Je t’aime bien. I like you. I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something cruel about this phrase. You thinking you’re getting the big L-bomb dropped on you, until the word bien comes out, and it turns out he just likes you. WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STUDY ABROAD IN PARIS? What’s it like to study abroad in Paris? {Recently I got asked this question on Instagram. As much as possible, I prefer to respond in a way many people can benefit from the response. Shoot me an email if to ask more questions I can answer in this series!} CHAPTER 1 – Study abroad (undergrad) My love affair with Paris has been a long one. “CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS” OF WORKING (& FREELANCING) IN Students have the right to work 50% with a student visa. This can mean working part time throughout the year, or full-time for half of the year. (FYI, I had more working rights as a student than I did with my business status). It’s also worth noting that French universities in* ABOUT
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MAPOLOGY GUIDES FOR LIFE It’s no secret that I love maps. (Something I inherited from my dad.) I have an every going collection of illustrated paper fold out maps that I display on a postcard rack on my desk that I stare at as I work—and type this post. I even taught an entire class on Skillshare that encouraged people to make their own maps. We so often turn to our phones to tell us where to go, but maps have always been the best way to help us find where we are, and show us where we’re trying to get. Mapology Guides take maps a step further thinking about maps in terms about concepts and ideas rather than physical places, not confined by location, landmarks, or sites to see. They’re illustrated self-help maps for life’s journey. I first met Mapology Guide creator Tina Bernstein at Betahaus in Berlin where we were for The Hive Berlin, a conference for bloggers. That year was my first conference talk I spoke about the less glamorous side of blogging: blogging etiquette and how to deal with negative comments. (I’ve always liked to keep things real.) One of the people who came up to me after my talk was Tina. We stayed in touch, and connect whenever I’m in London. She even took my Skillshare map making class when it first launched. (Little did I know that conference would unlock SO manyfriendships.)
_What’s with this gratitude thing? Images by Stephanie Hofmann and text by Julia Wills . _ Since we first met, Tina has gone on to launch her own line of Mapology Guides which are the intersection of her love of maps and mental health. Until recently mental health has often been a taboo subject in the mainstream. Tina, a huge proponent of “doing the work” on yourself, set out to change that through her illustrated guides to life. Our conversations always inspire me to keep exploring myself, and I love how she integrates creativity and play into everything she does. For each Mapology Guide she brings her own experience with a subject, and teams up with a writer or expert, as well as a different illustrator to bring her vision to life. It’s very much a collaborative effort that starts with brainstorming (I always love when she shares behind the scenes on @mapologyguides on Instagram).
I also love that each map includes a bio of each collaborator, but it’s not some copy and pasted bio. Each is woven into the theme of the map, so you get a personal look into the lens in which they see life. In many ways the bio have tips for life tucked between the lines. In her latest map, “Who Are You?” Tina shares her gratitude for getting to play a small part in expanding the world’s collective wisdom, kindness, and compassion, recognizing she—like all of us—is a work in progress. Tina is the perfect guide for this collection of guides._Who are you?
Images by Laurie Avon and text by LottieStorey ._
Each map seeks out to address different themes from differentperspectives:
* Who Are You? : Playful ways to discover your true self * What’s with this Gratitude Thing? How to make the ordinaryextraordinary
* Make it Happen: The incredible power of taking small steps * How to Make Better Decisions: 9 tools to deal with every dilemma * Are You Looking for Answers? : Enrich your life by asking theright questions
* How to Grow Your NO: This tiny word will change your life * The Anger Apothecary: Dispensing advice for managing this strongemotion
* What’s Bugging You? A Powerful 7 step coaching session * Overthinking: Free your mind from troubling thoughts * The Sea of Uncertainty: How to stay afloat in challenging times * Where do Ideas Come From? A simple guide to having great ideas * Hey, Let’s Work Things Out! Proven tips for a flourishingrelationship
* Check out them ALL! _Clockwise L to R: The Anger Apothecary – images by Jenni Sparks and text by Lottie Storie . How to Grow Your NO – images by Nic Farrell and text by Lottie Storie . How to Make Better Decisions – images by Sarah Edmonds and text by Robert Twigger . What’s Bugging You? – images by Jenni Sparks and text by John-Paul Flintoff ._ Each Mapology Guide has a “map” side that may be imagined as the section of a building, a flow chart, a list of questions, a board game, or an imagined place, while the flip side expands on the ideas explored in the map. Every time I open a guide, I notice new details, and there are new concepts and ideas that resonate with me depending on what’s going on in life. You can pick by theme, or your favoriteillustrator.
The flip side is like a giant legend. There tends to be more text and lots of questions to get you thinking. The maps are more like games for life to get you thinking (outside of the box) and playing. And like any map, it’s always fun to revisit them, taking time for reflection and to ponder. It’s amazing how big a world can fit on a single piece of paper. (They’re all printed in the UK.) Also, they come in a really fun package when you order from the shop—Tina wraps
them all with love.
_P.S. Next Write Your Own Rules is Dec 12thfrom
6-8pm CET! It’s the last time I’m running it in 2020, and a great way to set yourself up for the new year._ _P.S.S. I’m planning on running some version of my 3-month program ‘Mapping Your Path into 2021’ starting in late January or February. Sign up to be notified for the next MYP workshop launch. _
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LA 2ÈME VAGUE – THE 2ND WAVE (PARIS LOCKDOWN UPDATE) _On a 1 hour walk during the first day of reconfiment. Digital permission slip on phone. _ In Paris and across France we officially hit our _deuxième vague_ (second wave) of COVID-19. I’d been watching our numbers steadilygoing up for weeks
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hitting 52k new cases a day at points. I felt like I was watching the uptick in slow motion, because took the government awhile to speak up, but then when they did life came at us fast. We had less than 36 hours to get our lives together to lock. On Wednesday Oct 28th President Macron addressed the nation. The details were announced the following day by Prime Minister Castex (if you recall, this is a change from PM Edouard Philippe who managed the 1st wave, quite well I say). When the clock struck midnight on Thursday night we were back to our days of permission slips (_attestations_) limited to our 1km radius for 1 hour with the exception of certain cases (doctors visits, certain jobs, etc.). The risk again is hospital overload. Leading up until the 30th we’d already been operating on a 9pm curfew in Paris (and other major cities hit with a high case load in France). For anyone who knows French culture, eating at 7pm is not the norm at all. I’d never seen such efficiency in getting the bill—at outdoor terraces, _bien sûr_—to get home in time. That now feels like a distant memory with all restaurants closed, with the exception of delivery and click and collect. The biggest difference this round is that schools are open (with universities being remote)—so far. The idea (I suppose) is to help lighten the load of working parents in order to keep the economy going. (How you want to protect the economy, while giving such little notice is something I struggle with, but more notice would have lead to more super spreader gatherings aka last hurrahs.) If you can_ télétravail _(work remotely) you need to according to the government. However, based on my network I’ve heard of too many companies are taking liberty on that front and writing special attestations for their employees. (Note: masks have been required in offices for awhile now if people do go to work.) I’d argue in France there’s still an old school sense of management that if you are not seen, you’re not doing your job. There is definitely a sense of entitlement and exemption for many in charge. They see themselves first rather than working to get us out of this collective mess. Shops are closed, but some have a table at their door for click and collect orders. It’s been interesting to see chocolate shops and florists have dubbed themselves as essential. Last Friday during my first one hour outing, I was happy to bring some flowers home. I just may have to make it a regular thing in my new routine. As for me, my life hasn’t changed much. I’m fortunate to be busy with many of my own projects and endeavors that came to life during first lockdown. (I’m grateful for my incredible community in Mapping Your Path.) I’ve worked hard to develop good habits and stick to them . I’ve added dance parties to my daily regime because an hour walk isn’t enough movement for me (and dancing is good for the soul). Most exciting is my new hobby: cooking in the InstantPot (which no doubt will get its own post soon). Feeding myself three times a day was my least favorite part of our first lockdown. I’m not much of a cook, but I’ve decided to change that with the help of this magic machine that’s part slow cooker and part pressure cooker. (My friend Jenni is a professional chef who got me hooked.) So far I’ve made soup in 5 minutes, rice in 3 minutes, and shredded lime chicken in 20 minutes. It’s pretty much a dump and go thing and everything is fast once it pressurizes). I’ve also learned the joys of YouTube rabbit holes thanks to this newhobby.
I’ve learned with COVID there’s no point in trying to predict the future. We’re locked through at least December 1st, but I suspect it will continue longer… Helpful resources for staying up to dat: * Santé Publique France announces new cases in France at 8pm CET nightly * Veteran correspondant @John_Lichfield on Twitter regularly synthesizesdata (in English)
* Journalist @kimwillsher1 regularly simultaneously translates announcements in English * France24 – International news from a French perspective p.s. I’m hoping to run Write Your Own Rules workshop again before too long. Sign up here to be notified + sign up for my weekly newsletter Connect the Dots for regular updates direct inyour inbox.
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ENTER THE NEW YEAR WITH INTENTION: MAPPING YOUR PATH INTO 2021 (3MONTH WORKSHOP)
What would life look like if you started to visualize it in maps? Not as straight forward and linear as one would expect is my guess. I love maps because they give us the mindset of an explorer. We can see both where we are going, and where we have been. It’s time to zoom out and get the big picture of life, reflect and put things inperspective.
That’s also why I created Mapping Your Path into 2021, my new
3-month online workshop to help you explore intentionally while setting yourself up for success—whatever that means to you—in theNew Year.
In the hustle and bustle of daily life we rarely make time for ourselves. We keep moving forward as if it’s the path we’re supposed to be on without ever questioning what where doing, why we’re doing it, or when we’re doing it. We may be exactly where we’re meant to be, but we also may need to reset our course. This 3-month workshop is about exploration and creativity, with full permission to slow down and detour as needed. It’s about intentionally slowing down to take stock of where you’re at, and where you want to be. It’s about preparing yourself for the New Year now rather than coming up with a half-baked resolution when the clock strikes midnight and we ring in Jan 1. During our time together you’ll be building your own tool kit to help guide you into 2021, and beyond. We’ll be doing it step by step while learning from and being inspired by each other. This workshop is not about creating more for you to do, but giving you a creative outlet to minimize overwhelm, all while being intentional. After all, change doesn’t happen overnight. It’s about building muscles, and resources, over time. This will all happen through live workshops (which will be recorded if you can’t join live, or if you want to re-watch them) and office hours/co-working calls (bring any questions or plan to come together to work on your own explorations). We’ll have mini group calls with 5 community members to chat about whatever you’re working on, and you’re welcome to share or ask for feedback and support. On top of it, we’ll have our own online community (on Slack) to connect with each other, share progress, and celebrate small wins. We’ll meet bi-weekly until we wrap on January 14th, giving you plenty of time to digest each workshop and continue to dig deeper. We’ll also take a pause around the holidays. FOR MORE INFORMATION + SIGN UP TODAY VISIT THE FULL OFFER!Doors close
on October 16th when Mapping Your Path into 2021 sets sail. Come be part of the adventure!!! _P.S. Interested in Write Your Own Rules? Sign up for the workshop waitlist to be notified when the nextdate is announced._
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WRITE YOUR OWN RULES I was recently talking to a friend about travel and the fact that we can say, “I love to travel” but travel can mean so many different things to different people. For some people travel may mean going for long hikes at along a new landscape, for others it’s sitting in coffee shops for hours or casually strolling local neighborhoods, for some it’s seeing every major site in a guidebook, and for others travel is about 5-stars. THERE’S NO ONE WAY TO TRAVEL JUST LIKE THERE’S NO ONE WAY TOAPPROACH LIFE.
Sometimes there’s a bit of trial and error, and we learn from each experience. We also don’t have to fit into a box. We have agency to pull from a variety of possibilities in order to determine our own formula for what makes a great trip. Just as we have to determine our favorite ways to travel, we also have the power to determine how we want to move through life. It can be easy to get caught up in the rules of society. And while many rules are there for a reason, there are just as many that are there because they’ve always been there. Its these rules of the later variety that I’m encouraging us to question. We can feel out of place when we don’t fit in the guidelines of society. We can even feel like we’re doing it wrong, when in fact we’ve just never seen anyone doit any other way.
In my 2-hour Write Your Own Rules (online) Workshop I walk participants through a series of fun, quick-thinking exercises that culminate in writing your own guiding principles to carry you forward in life and in work. You’ll write your own rules that serve YOU, not what society tells us they should be. You leave at the end of the workshop with your very own rulebook that is distinctly yours and designed to be a reminder of how you want to live your life. So who is this for? Do any of the following sound like you? * You’re frustrated with the status quo. * Are considering a life change. * Want to push yourself further at your current job. * You’re looking for a fresh perspective. * You want something more enriching than scrolling your phone for 2hours.
* You’re craving some time to focus on YOU. Past participants have called Write Your Own Rules mindblowingly awesome, a breath of fresh air, thought provoking, a springboard, and more (testimonials here !). I promise it’s a ton of FUN! The next Write Your Own Rules is on October 3rd from 6-8pm CET . (That’s 12pm EST and 9am PST.) Hope to see you there! Tell a friend and SIGN UP NOW to grab your seat and get ready to show up for yourself! THE WORKSHOP HAS PASSED. SIGN UP FOR THE WYOR WAITLIST TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN THE NEXT WORKSHOP DATE IS ANNOUNCED. FUTURE WORKSHOPS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON ANNEDITMEYER.COM/WORKSHOPS . * In: creative workshops, online
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WHAT SUMMER CLOSURES IN PARIS CAN TEACH US ABOUT UX DESIGN _Slightly mixed messages. Left sign: Reopening at the end of August Have a good summer + see you later. Right sign: Open Tuesday—Saturday 2pm-7pm. _ Come to Paris any time of year and it’s a game of opening days and opening hours. Anything but a 24/7 culture. Museums tend to be closed Mondays or Tuesdays, restaurants may be closed Mondays or Tuesdays (or in other cases weekends), and shops will play by their own set of rules. Of course holidays will affect openings as well. A month like May when there are 3-4 holidays definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat. But nothing beats the month of August when Parisians are famous for skipping town and taking advantage of a large portion of their 5-9 weeks of vacation a year. It’s one thing to be on the side where you leave town. It’s a whole other ballgame to be in Paris and trying to figure out where you can go and what you can do during this month where anything goes. My own love/hate relationship with the month awakened my inner educator, and I couldn’t help but turn this post into a lesson in UX (user experience) design and look at the experience through the lens of thecustomer.
UX tends to be the side of the experience that isn’t always overtly visible, so I thought I’d bring it to the forefront. There’s a huge opportunity for businesses, even if they do leave on holiday. Who knows, this whole idea of breaking down lived experiences from a design perspective may become a whole series. If it does I’m tentatively calling it #missedopportunities. THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE When a restaurant or shop in Paris closes for a few weeks for summer holidays, their mindset is something like, “I’m so ready for vacation, I can’t wait to get out of here!” They’ve had the dates on the calendar for half a year and they are beyond ready for a break. They know everything they need to take care of before they go to close everything up and be able to completely unplug and disconnect. Lowest—or at least last—on the list is the most public facing component: communicating closures to others. The typical final step owners take is to lock up and post a sign on the door or closed grate noting when they’ll be back. It’s probably a quickly written or typed sign on A4 paper and posted with clear tape. They may or may not have had the foresight to update their social media, website, and opening hours on Google. The mentality around communicating August closures is not so much that they don’t care about their business so much as “out of sight, out of mind.” Running a business is hard work, burnout is real, and they’re ready for a well earned break too. They won’t be around to deal with customers and the business will be closed anyway, so anything customer facing is an afterthought and a minor detail in the grand scheme of what needs to do to leave on holiday. There are a significant amount of odds and ends that need to take place in order to take a well deserved break. Now let’s flip the script and think of this scenario from the customer perspective. _A rare sight of too much communication. All very helpful and something for everyone! Including where to find them online. Perhaps the July hours could have been erased as they’re no longerrelevant._
THE CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE. I’m in Paris. I love when Paris is quiet. That doesn’t mean I want to stay in my apartment all day everyday. I completely understand the need to take a break and go on holiday. There’s no judgement there. I still can want to support local businesses and have interactionswith other humans.
I also know in August I can’t just do/go whatever/wherever my heart desires in Paris. It takes a bit more planning, thought, and research. I’m not a big planner, but if I know you’re going to be open in August I get super excited and I’ll be there all the time. I’ll become a new regular. If I have a visitor in town it’s extremely helpful to know what will be open, particularly when it comes to restaurants. With visitors, I usually have advanced notice of when they’ll be in town, and it’s something to look forward to. Vacations and closures actually start the last couple weeks in July, but there’s still no forethought into communicating to customers about openings or closures. I find myself figuring out where we can go as it happens. I love being a regular, but August shakes up my routine. For some of my favorite places I frequent I’ll take to asking them about their summer plans. The reality is that it’s exhausting to ask everywhere you want to go whether and when they’ll be open, and you really need a spreadsheet to keep track of everything because every business plays by their own rules in summer. It also can change from one summer to the next. They keep you on your toes! The thing that kills me is that signs go up at the last second. They’ve essentially closed their doors and then think to communicate it. If it were up to me, I’d have a sign up a couple weeks before I was set to close to let people know what to expect. I was so bummed when my favorite chicken place closed extra early this summer for renovations. Had I known they were closing I would have had one last run to get my fix. Instead, this year they closed for nearly a month and a half. A similar thing happened with a favorite coffee shop. While they typically close in August, I had no reason to believe they’d close even earlier—and longer—starting in July this year. I would have gone out of my way to get that last cup of satisfaction to tide me over for the summer. As a customer I WANT to give you my money, but sometimes businesses in France make it hard. Then there’s a whole other type of businesses who just don’t communicate ANYTHING. I love supporting small, independent, and local businesses, but sometimes they make an already frustrating time even more aggravating. Take a couple weeks ago, I was really excited to go to a restaurant in my neighborhood that works with local producers. I tended to walk by during off hours so I never saw it open. There was no sign on the door, so I had no reason to believe they were closed. I know in Paris that’s not enough to go off of, so before heading there for dinner I checked their website and social media. Still nothing. I knew their sister restaurant another neighborhood over was still open, so it didn’t make sense the one near me would be closed, but you never know. So I decided to call. It was when they should be open but the phone rang and rang and rang. Were they busy or closed? I didn’t know. It was close enough I decided it was best just to walk by and see what the scene was. Of course it was closed. What made this so frustrating was all the different points where something could have been communicated. Instead it makes me as a client feel stupid and annoyed. That’s not great for business. Another thing that happens in summer is businesses may change their opening days, times, as well as their offers. Perhaps summer hours are different, or you’re opening your terrace in the evening. Yes, it’s great for the person strolling by who discovers it just when they needed something to eat or drink. But what about the rest of us who don’t even know that we should come back because nothing is communicated that you have this offering later in the day?#missedopportunity
I often joke that the French don’t like to volunteer information. That’s a lot of pressure on me as the customer to think to inquire, and also figure out which question(s) I should ask to uncover this gem of information I really would have liked to know. If you’re a business owner and sales are down, trust me there are some super simple tweaks you can make to get the word out and communicate your offers. Depsite what society may make us believe, social media isn’t always the answer either. Word of mouth still is the one of the best ways to get word out, but the “spreaders” need to know what’s going on in order to pass along a good word. Lately I’ve also noticed that restaurants will have menus listed in a few different places—perhaps written on the window, posted on the wall, and there’s more still in the display case. I grew up looking at one menu, so my mental model doesn’t tell me to look in multiple places to find information. On more than one occasion I’ve placed my order only to realize there was something I wanted more, I didn’tknow it existed.
Just like with the opening hours, I’m having to work way too hard as someone who is a customer who literally wants to give you my money. I’d probably spend even more money if I knew some of these other products and offers existed. (And if certain items are only offered during certain windows of time, please don’t hide that information.) Sure, signs outside your business are great to communicate summer closures, but businesses have to remember that all of their customers don’t necessarily live in the neighborhood. It’s incredibly frustrating to travel across town to find out a place is closed. Even before social media was as big as it is today, businesses weren’t great at updating their websites with opening hours. You were more likely to find updates on Facebook pages than official websites. (The challenge of finding the simplest information like opening hours on websites in France any time of the year is a whole other challenge for another post.) My goal as the customer is to find the information at a glance. Not have to go digging for it. Google is quite smart, but still can’t read minds when it comes to holidays. Some businesses do update their summer hours on Google (that feeds into the maps feature), but some don’t. Will you be on the lucky side or not?? One business may respond, “but we updated Google,” but the baggage of the five others who didn’t is real in the customer journey. I try not to use social media to complain about businesses, but I sometimes do when it comes to communicating openings. They may respond, “but we did share it…on Stories!” Stories are the Instagram feature that disappear after 24 hours. Other times they may share it in an Instagram post, but I have no control over what the algorithm tells me. And it takes some time and effort to have to look for said post. Why not just share it on your profile?(It’d be great if you shared your address with Paris zipcode while I’m at it!). The goal should be for the potential customer to find the information fast, and it should be where they expect it. People should not have to go digging or hunt for it. Remember, UX is from the USER perspective. It’s necessary to get inside the brains of users and customers. While we can’t mind read, but we can gain empathy for their perspective. (Hence, I wrote this post ;) ). UX is often something no one thinks about because when design is done right it’s seamless and easy. We’re more likely to notice—and complain—if air conditioning isn’t working, it’s too hot, or too cold. We totally ignore how it’s working until it goes awry. It’s the when things don’t go as planned that the true opportunities too. Let’s dig into some opportunities when it comes to summer closuresin Paris.
_My favorite sign I’ve seen this summer which an Instagram follower shared with me. (Sorry, it didn’t save your name, I’m happy to update with credit!)_ FRUSTRATIONS = OPPORTUNITIES When it comes to UX, designers look to frustrations and pain points to find the biggest opportunities. By empathizing with the user or customer, we can learn a lot about a context or situation. Sometimes it’s the smallest changes and shifts in mindset that can have a bigimpact.
Every summer I encounter the same frustrations, but these are the easy fixes I’d suggest. POST AN AWESOME SIGN. If you do I’ll probably share it. So consider that free publicity. It also may grab the attention of some locals who may never have otherwise have noticed your shop or restaurant. It’s practical for the short term, but also can build buzz for long term business. Stand out and make people look. (Several years ago I put together posts here and here with a collection of my favoritesigns—here
and here
—they still
leave a lot to be desired.) To be clear awesome doesn’t have to cost a lot of money or be time consuming. Have a little personality. Everyone loves having a smile on their face. You can even take a photo of your awesome sign and share it on your social media. Simple and effective content. PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE YOU HANG THE SIGN. When you do post the sign, make it easy to find. As a customer my habits make me want to head to the door to look for information. The tiny sign on the side window around the corner is not the obvious place where I’d think to look. (Yes, I recently encountered this. It was at least a rare fun sign.) COMMUNICATE CLOSURES—OR OPENINGS—IN ADVANCE. A few weeks before holidays you can post a sign of when you will be closed (or celebrate the fact that you’ll be open, because we customers need to know that too! August 15th is a public holiday, so that day brings everything into question again). This can be a small sign near check out. Communicating in advance is also important as often social media algorithms have a day or two delay to have information appear in the feed. Businesses can also communicate the information more than once, because customers need to hear it for it to sink in. It’s about arespect for time.
COMMUNICATE IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. MAKE IT EASY TO FIND. Update your website, social media profiles, and create a post. Also, be explicit (day, month, date—say it in all the ways. We’re going for clarity and clear, direct messaging here). “See you next week” in an Instagram caption isn’t very useful when the interface doesn’t clearly state the date. UX is about not making the user have to think to get what they need. Volunteer information before the customer has to ask or makes false assumptions. DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS. I fear it’s assumed that locals “will know” opening hours so there’s no need to communicate. You can tell me something but that doesn’t mean it sinks in. Trust me when I say that it’s very different knowing your own travel dates than keeping track of all your friends as well as businesses. It’s a giant swirling mess. Then it’s quite a bit of effort to see if a place is open. Keep in mind that even the most regular or regulars can’t keep track of it all! CHECK IN REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE THE HOURS AND INFORMATION ON YOUR PROFILES IS STILL RELEVANT. We all get so in the groove we forget to make sure the basic information is still correct. Schedule theseregular check ins.
Of course all of this is wishful thinking. I was looking forward to supporting a local coffee joint I love on their first day back. Of course they extended their closure until September 3rd. It wouldn’t be the authentic Paris experience without these twist and turns! Ha! (And it’s not even owned by Frenchies. It’s just in the air here.) THESE ARE MY THOUGHTS. CAN YOU RELATE? I SPEND SO MUCH TIME PONDERING WHY NO BUSINESSES HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FROM “MY” PERSPECTIVE. AM I CRAZY TO SEE ALL THIS ALL AS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?? DOES IT DRIVE ANYONE ELSE INSANE? HOW ELSE WOULD YOU REDESIGN THE EXPERIENCE OF SUMMER CLOSURES? SHARE IN THE COMMENTS. In general I love August in Paris. You can listen to me chat about August on Earful Tower last summer.
As for UX, you can learn more about the field through my OpenClassrooms courses+ in
this Biz Blog post
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HOW TO MAKE CROISSANTS AT LA CUISINE PARIS Eating a croissant will never be the same again. It only took 11 years of living in Paris for me to learn what goes into making a proper croissant: patience, time, and BUTTER (one of my favorite foods!). It’s incredible how “simple” they are to make, yet it’s a true art, and it’s all about how the dough and butter is combined into layers. Here’s a glimpse inside the super fun 3-hour Croissant and Breakfast Pastries class at La Cuisine Paris.
Croissants all start with simple ingredients—flour, salt, sugar, yeast, water, and melted butter—to make the dough, known as _détrempe_. The process is like making pasta in terms of how it’s combined. The process is quite quick, but the dough needs several hours of refrigeration before the next steps. When it comes to croissants, it’s all about the butter. Roll out the butter block in parchment paper that then gets folded into the _détrempe_. The goal is to keep the rectangular shape of the dough to ensure even layers. (Our chef Segoline made this look SO easy! It definitely takes some practice.) The croissant dough (_pâté levée feuilletée_) gets rolled thin. Croissants are cut into triangles and rolled into their very identifiable shape. Pain au chocolate are made from rectangles, with a couple variations for rolling to enrobe the bars of chocolate. The secret to croissant making is to keep all the scraps! Every bit can be used, even if they’re minis. The same dough is used to make _pain au raisin_ and _drops_. This involves a layer of _crème pâtissière_ cream filling that adds a layer of moisture to the pastry. You can add any other flavors along the way to give it your own twist. You can also have some fun with different shapes, forms, and filling. It’s kind of magic how it all comes together. It’s the preparation that takes time. Before baking the pastries need time to rise. The pastries actually cook quite quickly (15-20 minutes). Some pastries got a sugar syrup glaze. We had a blast during our 3 hour class with lots of simple “_Ohhhh, that’s how it’s done!!!” _mind-blowing moments! For over 10 years La Cuisine Paris has been teaching travelers and locals the art of French cooking at their cooking school in the center of Paris along the Seine. While travel may not be in the cards right now, that doesn’t mean you can’t travel vicariously and learn a new skill, or make croissants for your loved ones or neighbors (you never make a small batch when you’re making croissants). La Cuisine Paris has launched an online version of the school where you can everything fromcroissants
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macaroons ,
choux pastry
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French sauces
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souflées
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basic breads
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more . They’re also offering LIVE cooking classes (space is limited, which means everyone gets access to the chef). Of course the best part of the class is when you get to taste your creations—fresh out of the oven! Thanks to croissant-lover Graham for inspiring me to learn something new. I’ll never look at croissants the same again. (After class the hunt for the best croissants in Paris continued.) Paris croissant resources: * Best croissants in Parisaccording
to Clotilde of Chocolate & Zucchini * Best croissants in Paris according to Paris by Mouth * Best pastry shops in Paris according to David Lebovitz * A brief history of croissants
from La Cuisine Paris * La Cuisine Paris Croissant Fundamentals online class&
classes in Paris
_Mille mercis La Cuisine Paris + chef Segoline for such a funexperience!!_
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THE NEW PARISIENNE: THE WOMEN & IDEAS SHAPING PARIS (Q&A WITH LINDSEYTRAMUTA!)
It’s strange to have lived in a place for so long and still realize there’s so much about it you still don’t know. There are many days where I feel like I know Paris like the back of my hand. There are other days where I’m reminded that I’ve only brushed the surface. After reading _The New Parisienne: the women & ideas shaping Paris_ by Lindsey Tramuta I fell into the category of the latter. It wasn’t that felt overwhelmed by all that I don’t know, but curious to learn more. I’ve thought a lot about my own desires to tell “alternative narratives” or the stories that are less told. In recent years I’ve come to see how the perpetuation and celebration of certain narratives in the media, and in our own minds are stories we’ve accepted, but without question. We don’t always know there’s another way of doing things because that other way of doing things isn’t always visible or represented in front of us. These stories that seem like exceptions, may likely be more the norm than werealize.
_The New Parisienne_ was the first book I’ve been able to get into and read cover to cover since lockdown began. My mind had been distracted, but this book gave me focus, and pulled me in. Lindsey does an incredible job of distilling her long interviews into a few cohesive pages that capture the spirit of each woman featured in the book. I was so intrigued and eager to learn more about these different approaches and ways of doing business. I could relate! While the book is focused on women who call Paris home, the stories in this book really could be from anywhere in the world. There’s something about the release of the book now that feels more relevant than ever. It’s incredibly timely to learn about different experiences beyond what movies and media perpetuate, but at the same time these stories feel very timeless. I couldn’t help but wonder where I’d be now had I discovered many of these women earlier in life. I learned a lot about the world in the process of reading their stories and discovering their work too. Once I finished the book, I wanted to know more about the process. Here’s a special interview with author Lindsey Tramuta (aka Lost inCheeseland ).
_In addition to beautiful photography by Joann Pai , the book features illustrations byAgathe Singer ._
ANNE DITMEYER: YOUR BOOK WAS INITIALLY SUPPOSED TO LAUNCH IN APRIL BUT WAS DELAYED UNTIL JULY DUE TO COVID-19. WHILE I’M SURE THAT WAS FRUSTRATING, I CAN’T HELP BUT FEEL LIKE THE RESURGENCE OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT MAKES THE RELEASE OF THIS BOOK MORE IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT THAN EVER. AS THE AUTHOR, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THE TIMING OF YOUR BOOK AS IT RELATES TO THIS CURRENT TIME IN HISTORY? Lindsey Tramuta: It was all VERY unexpected but I suppose this whole year has been about unexpected events. I spent the beginning portion of confinement mourning what I had imagined the rollout of the book to be but was reassured that my publisher was willing to delay the release to summer. It was still at a time when the U.S. had yet to lock down entirely and we were entertaining some idea that this would be behind us by summer. Either way, I figured summer would be better as it would give retailers and book distributors to adjust to the COVID-related disruptions to the industry and that it would give us a chance to evaluate to what extent readers were still hungry for books. By May, I was relieved to read that after an initial drop in sales in March, book buying surgedthroughout
the remainder of lockdown in the US and UK. I was starting to feel a bit more hopeful. This also coincided with deconfinement in France and our collective testing-the-waters in going out and piecing together asense of normalcy.
Before June 2, the date of both the reopening of bars and restaurants (outdoors) and the first Black Lives Matter / Justice pour Adama demonstration in Paris, there were other pressing issues that related closely to many of the recurring themes in the book: tensions around division of labor, pay equality, precarious conditions for domestic / frontline workers, and great concern for disabled individuals. I certainly couldn’t have predicted that but it wasn’t surprising insofar as the inequalities many of the women speak about in the book are easily amplified by crisis. But with the eruption of the racial justice movement, it felt like suddenly the topics in the book around discrimination and France’s very complicated relationship to and handling of race would get a megaphone they may not have hadotherwise.
The fact that these discussions around race and discrimination resonated far beyond U.S. borders and inspired protests and action GLOBALLY made me feel that there would be perhaps greater understanding or openness to the stories presented in my book. I felt more confident that these issues would be front of mind and the book might speak to a wider audience as a result. From a societal perspective, it finally feels like these discussions won’t be so easily swept back under the rug in France and in that sense I hope my book can be part of that awakening. _The book is broken down into activists, creators, disruptors, storytellers, “taste” makers, and visionaries._ AD: YOU POINT OUT “PARISIENNES” ARE OFTEN CONFLATED WITH FRENCH WOMEN. ONE OF THE MAIN GOALS OF THIS BOOK IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT THERE IS A MUCH RICHER VIEW OF PARISIAN WOMEN THAN THE ONES CELEBRATED BY THE MEDIA. WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE HAVE CLUNG TO THOSE NARRATIVES SO CLOSELY? For two reasons: one, I think it’s very uncomfortable for people to challenge what they hold to be true. In my early years in Paris, I held a rather rosy view of life and society because I was focusing on the ways in which the culture and its values were more evolved or “superior” to those in the U.S. However, I wasn’t necessarily able, at that time, to admit to the shortcomings and the cracks in the fantasy I was already starting to observe—the misogyny in politics and everyday life, the painful history of violence toward Algeria, flare-ups of antisemitism, etc. I was young but I was also still learning and hadn’t reached the maturity to feel that I could still appreciate and love this country and want to make it my home AND accept that it is imperfect and has serious improvements to make. As humans, we do this with our romantic relationships, our friendships, our careers, and our views—we create expectations based on narratives and either can’t accept when they disappoint or challenge our views or we adjust and learn and grow. Then, there’s the corporate and political interests that have benefited from presenting a whitewashed image of Paris. Already we know that France has a very long history of searing debates about who is and isn’t French and the discrimination we’ve been talking about in this country is a result of that—who feels they have ownership of Frenchness and gets to decide for others what that LOOKS like. And then you consider how a city like Paris, itself a brand, that has consistently been one of the most visited destinations in the world, has leveraged 200+ years of myth-making around its greatness and its people to promote itself and you see a formula that works. Why change what isn’t broken? That’s the sense I get: the narrow slice of Paris and its women that gets recycled and repurposed endlessly because it sells billions of dollars in products and ideas and supports the tourism economy. AD: YOU STARTED WRITING THE NEW PARISIENNE BACK IN 2018. YOU’RE ADDRESSING ANTI-RACISM AND TOPICS OF DIVERSITY AND REPRESENTATION THAT FEEL VERY 2020. YOU MENTION IN THE INTRO HOW MUCH OF THIS BOOK WAS INSPIRED BY CONVERSATIONS YOU HAD AFTER THE RELEASE OF YOUR FIRST BOOK _THE NEW PARIS_. WHAT HAS YOUR OWN JOURNEY INTO SOME OF THESE SUBJECTS BEEN LIKE? WHEN/HOW DID IT FULLY COME INTO YOUR AWARENESS? LT: I’d say it’s been an evolution! Some of the early conversations I had in 2017 with women whom I met for other stories I was writing or in the context of events I’ve attended were catalysts to the change I wanted to see in my own mind. I wanted to broaden the voices I was following and when you start that, you don’t stop! One person leads to another who leads to another and suddenly my worldview had far more diverse influences. Since those encounters ultimately led to me pursuing this book project, it was through the research process and interviews with these women that my desire to be part of the change that is needed fully blossomed. The process led to me becoming more alert to the stories that are crucial but easily (and intentionally) dwarfed in attention by other topics, made me engaged, made me want to seek out texts and ideas and conversations on topics on which I needed to be educated. AD: YOU HAVE A SERIOUSLY IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF WOMEN IN THIS BOOK. HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU FIND/DISCOVER THEM ALL? HOW MANY WERE NEW-TO-YOU NAMES TO YOU THAT CAME UP WHILE WORKING ON THE BOOK? WHAT WAS THE CURATION PROCESS LIKE? LT: It was tough! I started with the women I already knew to a certain degree or knew OF and branched out from there. Many of them I had been following online for a couple of years and had a good sense of what they were about and how they were contributing to the city. I also read about some of the women, such as Sarah Sauquet and Sandra Rey, in a magazine and knew I wanted to speak with them. There was a lot of cold emailing! But the process was about highlighting a diversity of professions, backgrounds, and perspectives. _The book features prize wining authors, musicians, an Olympic boxer, shop owners, and more._ AD: WAS IT A CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO MAKE SURE SOME WOMEN YOU PICKED WEREN’T BORN IN FRANCE AND MAY IDENTIFY MORE AS NATIONALITIES OTHER THAN FRENCH? DO YOU THINK THE FACT THAT YOU’RE AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (WHO NOW HAS FRENCH CITIZENSHIP) PLAYED A ROLE IN THOSE CHOICES? LT: Absolutely! And I do think we as foreign-born citizens of France are more sensitive to differences and the importance of representation. We also pick up on things / behaviors that natives maynot.
AD: HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR ROLE AS AN IMMIGRANT/EXPAT PLAYED A ROLE IN THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK? DO YOU THINK A BORN AND BRED PARISIENNE WOULD BE ABLE TO SHARE THE STORY THROUGH THE SAME LENS? LT: Of course someone from Paris could do this but the question is would the French publishers WANT it? I find that the same white-dominancy in American publishing exists in France as well and that impacts what gets the green light. The enduring argument among locals that France is now importing American identity politics and it must resist this pressure to highlight “differences” goes a long way in turning editors and even writers off to the idea of tackling topics of representation. AD: IS THERE ANYONE YOU’D ADD TO THE BOOK—OR THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT—THAT YOU’VE DISCOVERED SINCE IT WENT TO PRINT? LT: Two women I would have loved to feature but whom I learned of / met after finishing the manuscript are Jacqueline Ngo Mpii of LittleAfrica (who is
currently crowdfunding to create a cultural space in La Goutted’Or neighborhood
!)
and Ruba Khoury, the chef-owner of Dirty Lemon cocktail bar who brings something really fresh and exciting to the food and beverage landscape. AD: ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO ADD THAT READERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUTYOUR BOOK?
LT: If you’re in the US, please consider ordering the book fromBookshop.org or an
independent bookseller! They need our support! You can find some other options on my website: www.thenewparisienne.com.
AD: THANK YOU, LINDSEY!! MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR ALL YOUR INCREDIBLE WORK AND TELLING THESE STORIES. _Portrait of the author by Joann Pai._ It’s also worth checking out Lindsey’s podcast, The New Paris where she continues to tell different stories inside Paris. Yours truly recorded an episode shortly before lockdown (episode 51 – On deeper travel experiences).
You can read more about _The New Parisienne_: * A New Book Pushes Back Against the Stereotypical French Woman(Vogue)
* How Mayor Anne Hidalgo Plans to Reinvent Paris (sample chapter—Condé Nast Traveler) * Poonam Chawla on Tourism, Cooking, and Raising Her Boys in Paris (sample chapter–LitHub)* More press here!
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BLACK TOURISM (AND BEYOND) IN PARIS In Paris it’s easy to get lost in the picture perfect images of clichés, but there’s so much depth to this city “beyond the bubble” and images we typically are fed. In the times of Black LivesMatter
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I thought it only fitting to celebrate Black tourism, history, businesses, and voices in Paris. Even if you don’t plan to visit Paris soon, I hope this post can help inspire you to explore another layer of the city and travel vicariously. These are people, businesses, creatives, and experts whose work I’ve discovered along the way that I find inspiring from their approaches, business models, and stories they tell. In noparticular order…
Kévi Donat of Le Paris Noir offers Black history walks in both French and English specializing in stories which are typically invisible. His current street tour offerings explore La Rive Gauche and the Pioneers (Pantheon to Saint Germain de Près), Pigalle and La Goutte d’Or (Pigalle to Chateau Rouge), and Le Paris Noir (Pantheon to Chateau-Rouge), and he also offers a tour looking at the Pantheon and abolition, and another explores the (de)colonized Louvre.>
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> on May 29, 2020 at 7:24am PDT Yaqui (short for Jacqueline) is the French author of the city guide _Little Africa: Afrique à Paris_ (available in French and English). She also offers experiences including Made in Goutte d’Or (a neighborhood to the east of Sacre Coeur she describes as a crossroads of African fashion, design and spices), Gentlemen Fashion Tour, and a Taste of African food tour. You can listen to her talk about the future of tourism after a pandemic on The New Paris podcast.
Yannick is an American has called Paris home since 2007 and runs My Parisian Life : your guide to life in Paris. She offers custom itineraries, tours, hand delivered Paris foodie bags for picnics, monthly meet ups, and event planning and experiences. She also has her own YouTube channelcapturing
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> on Feb 17, 2020 at 3:30pm PST Maya is a Californian turned Parisienne entrepreneur who runs La Vie Locale, her company which helps provides a range of services from event and trip planning, to administrative and mentor support, to content creation for individuals and brands to make their trips and moves to Paris more seamless. Her YouTube channel Almost Parisiennehighlights
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> on Oct 23, 2019 at 1:00pm PDT Jennifer Padjemi is a French independent journalist who writes everything from Paris to pop culture and lifestyle stories in both French and English. She’s a contributor to the Washington Post’s digital travel section By The Way, where she wrote A Local’s Guide to Paris.
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> on Feb 5, 2020 at 3:30am PST Tanisha Townsend is the wine and spirits educator behind Girl Meets Glass and host of the podcast WineSchool Dropout
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> on Dec 15, 2019 at 3:05am PSTWAX in the City
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documentary exploring fashion through African wax fabric, while taking the viewer on a trip around Europe and Africa. I caught it at the Nigerian Film Festival in Paris , and now it’s available on Vimeo On Demand . (I’m not sure if it’s still valid but there was a free code on their FB page).
(There are also countless _retoucheries_—tailor shops—in the Chateau Rouge neighborhood if you’re ever looking to have your own clothes made. And that’s where you find all the fabric shops full of amazing and colorful African wax fabric patterns can be found.) Nothing But the Wax is a French media site founded by Chayet Chienin that celebrates and gives a voice to the untold stories of afrodescendent youth and Black millennials. The blog turned media site is in French and English, but not all of the same posts appear in both languages. (Chayet also offers AfricanFashion in the City
through Airbnb Experiences.) Jessi aka Etta Vee is an American who found her voice as an artist in Paris (and recently moved to Strasbourg) and has grown her company into an international brand. Her work is colorful, fun, and full of joy and appears on walls (as paintings and murals), products in shops, clothes, and more.>
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> on Jun 4, 2020 at 2:17pm PDT Carole Fredericks was an African American singer who made it big in the French music scene and became a member of the Fredericks Goldman Jones trio (listen on Spotify)
before branching out to a solo career, which ended abruptly after she died of a heart attack after a concert in Senegal. I only became aware of her work after a chance encounter with her sister and brother in law in the Paris post office. My helping them with the stamp machines became an introduction to Carole’s work, and a friendship. Carole’s sister Connie runs a foundation in her sister’s name which uses her sister’s music and story to teach French. (The foundation website is currently down for a revamp, but linking it in hopes its up againsoon.)
Les Déterminés is an entrepreneurship program founded by Moussa Camara which seeks to provide opportunities for all, particularly to those in less favorable suburbs of Paris and rural areas (and now has expanded to other cities around France). I first discovered Moussa’s work on cultural analyst and marketing expert Gregory Pouy’s podcast Vlan(episode
in French).
_More reading:_
* Kasia put together a blog post of other Black owned businesses inParis
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* Messy Nessy Chic explored the “other” lost generation of Black American artists in Paris.
* While not Paris specific, Travel Noire is a digital media company serving millennials of the African Diaspora that uses inspired content to help discerning travelers, discover, plan and experience new destinations. * We Are Black and Abroad is a travel and lifestyle company highlighting the Black experience drive to explore, embrace, and empower. * Be Girl World is a Philly-based organization that empowers teenage girls through global education and travel. bGw challenges girls to think beyond their neighborhood, dream bigger than their city limits, and create possibilities outside their country borders. Each cohort spends two years in the program, culminating in an international trip. This list only brushes the surface. Please help me build it out. I invite you to share names, businesses, links, and a sentence or two about Black businesses in travel, and in Paris in the comments below. Even if we can’t travel in traditional ways at the moment, I encourage you to do some digging and see how you can support the tourism industry, be it supporting a business through buying products, discovering online experiences, or something we haven’t considered yet. (Even if you don’t see an offer, sometimes the best ideas come from clients inquiring about a service. Who knows they may be able to create custom offers…) Also, keep in mind we can all support our local economies and learn more about the places we live—be it Paris, or anywhere in the world. I for one have a lot I could learn about the Black experience andhistory in Paris.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER: HOW TO BE AN ALLY African American poet Maya Angelou said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” While I can’t pretend to fully understand the weight that Black people are feeling right now, if you pause to listen and read, I see that they’re hurting, they’re not OK, they’re tired, and even feel numb. What, at the surface, was sparked by the murder of George Floyd is only one blip on a larger, deeper, exhausting history. Right now they’re also aware of who is speaking up, and who is silent. I’ve never considered myself an activist, but if it’s a matter of language, what I do see myself as is an advocate, ally, and amplifier. It’s why I felt the need—and drive—to write this post. This post is not about making me feel good—in fact, it was one of the most challenging things I’ve ever written. In that respect, it was a reminder that there is no progress without effort. This post is my attempt to explain a time in history—one that needs rewriting, from truthfully acknowledging a past and present rife with systematic oppression and bias, to how we move forward, together. I share my own journey where I know I have already had mis-steps, but I have a voice and a platform, so this is my plea for a more compassionate world. To do that we need to become allies. Here’s my basic breakdown to BECOMING AN ALLY: * ACKNOWLEDGE. (Privilege. The situation. That you may not understand everything.) * EDUCATE YOURSELF. (Listen. Do the work. Learn what you can.) * ADVOCATE AND AMPLIFY. (Do what you can to raise the voices ofothers.)
_Words by Scott Woods._ACKNOWLEDGE
Are you not following the news? Don’t feel the need to follow? Just want to “go back to normal”? Staying quiet? Flippantly don’t think it’s a big deal and want to go on with your life? Do you feel exhausted by what you’re seeing and feel the urge to stop looking at the news and take a mental health break? These are all indicators that you have privilege. Not everyone has the luxury to put on blinders orbrush it aside.
What was the moment when you realized you had a certain privilege ? Can you pinpoint it to a moment, or was it a gradual build? For me, it was the latter. It was Twitter and shifting conversations in the design world that started to open my eyes. I’d eavesdrop on conversations that would open my eyes to other perspectives I hadn’t considered. I expanded the comments and read the reactions. This was rarely anything I would have learned in school, but life lessons of the lived. I started to learn that what we see represented isn’t the only story, but also what is absent and ignored. In text books. In what we’re taught. In the media. Serious subjects are layered and nuanced, so even topics of biases were rarely touched on in myofficial studies.
Context is key. It may mean catching a comment you don’t understand up close, and then zooming out to understand the big picture. That’s what we’re in right now. None of this makes sense without context. If you feel yourself being attacked recognize if you feel defensive. Ask yourself, “Why do I feel like this?” Pause. Don’t jump to conclusions. (Full disclosure, I had a moment of defensiveness when working on this post. I was stubborn and didn’t fully listen to a friend with a different perspective. It took sleeping on it to realize there was more merit to what she was saying than I gave her credit for. This process will be uncomfortable.) Acknowledge what it feels like when you feel judged. Now flip the script and focus on where and when you may feel judgement towards others. Is it justified? Was it learned? Were you even aware you do it? Be aware that not all racism is blatant. Acknowledge what it feels like when someone makes an assumption about you. Now check which assumptions you’re making about others. Have you ever been followed in a store based on your skin color? Or had people move away from you on the side walk ? A friend of mine shared this —something I only learnedabout now.
Acknowledge your own hardships and what it felt like. Acknowledge that others have their own hardships that aren’t always visible. What if you had hardships at EVERY step of your career because of the color of your skin? And what if you feared for the life and safety of your father, brother, and nephew as they went through daily life ? Keep your own entitlement in check. It’s not a competition of who had it harder. Even if there are factors in your life that make it hard, your skin color isn’tone of them.
Ultimately this isn’t about you, it’s about gaining empathy for others. I’d like to think in reminding ourselves that we have feelings, we can start to appreciate that others have feelings too. Through asking questions—rather focusing on answers—we can begin to see and understand the world through someone else’s lens. In order to do this we must LISTEN. Not pretend to listen, and not nod like we’re listening while we really are planning what to say next, but REALLY LISTEN. Even if it’s uncomfortable. It may take some time to sit with ideas. Keep asking questions, and asking yourselfquestions.
It can be hard to discover we’re imperfect humans, but acknowledgingit is a start.
_1-screen from Courtney Ahn’s guide to white privilege._
EDUCATE YOURSELF
There’s this strange unspoken assumption that we learn everything we need to learn in school, and then we’re set. There’s nothing further from the truth. School is only the beginning of our education. As adults it can feel embarrassing to not know something so it’s easier to cover it up than admit that we don’t know. School doesn’t teach us that it’s OK to admit when we don’t know an answer, that asking questions is a valuable step, and ultimately, that as individuals we can learn anything we don’t know. We grow up with mental models that are informed by our environment and the context in which we are raised. I have fond memories of police officers coming to my elementary school in Kansas. They were nice and friendly, and never forceful. I have an idea of reality that is very different from the majority of disturbing coverage I see on the news. Our ideas don’t always match reality. (And yes, I believe there are lots of good officers out there too—and their stories are being shared online too; but they are not the ones getting away with murder—literally.) Pay attention to when our assumptions and expectations don’t play out in reality. We are never done learning, and honestly it’s embarrassing that I’m only now learning some of these lessons. It’s also important to acknowledge that sometimes you may need to unlearn what you alwaysthought was true.
It’s easy to get defensive to protect our view points. But this is not about us. The statement “I’m not racist,” becomes about you and not the other person. First, acknowledge racism happens on a spectrum and that it seeps into every aspect of our lives in various, often subtle, ways. Realize you may be offending someone unintentionally. Flip the script to ask, “How might what I say be unintentionally interpreted as racist?” And invite others to correct you if something is out of line. It’s scary being wrong, but it’s even scarier losing your life to police brutality because of the color of your skin._Matt Crump
and Jay Grady
reimagined the visual of racism on a spectrum._ And yes, ALL lives do matter, but currently not ALL people are treated like they do so that’s why the conversation has to change, and focus on how Black Lives Matter. Jane Elliot asked the question, “If you, as a white person, would be happy to receive the same treatment that our Black citizens do in this society, please
stand.” She asked this question as a way to point out the fact that you know what’s happening, you know you don’t want it for yourself, yet why are you willing to accept or allow it for others? This is not the time to put the onus on someone else—particularly a POC—to educate you about what’s going on. It’s time to do the work yourself. You can ask for help. Here are resources for you if you don’t know where to start: * Trevor Noah on George Floyd, the Minneapolis Protests, AhmaudArbery & Amy Cooper
(The Daily Show social media) * A guide to white privilegeby Courtney Ahn
* The Conscious Kid
examines parenting and education through a critical race lens (see “Are your kids too young to talk about race?“)
* Anti-racism resources for white people(Google Doc)
* Support the Black Lives Matter Movement by Teen Vogue (judging the source? Revisit the step above.) * 20 Actions White people & non-Black POCs in Corporate (and otherwise) can take to show up for Black People right now * Listen to The Daily podcast (episode: A weekend of pain andprotests
and The systems that protect police;
surely with more to come) * Five Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral Posts & The Only Kind of Response That’s Acceptable * Buy a book about anti-racism + more books + more books (and support a local/independent bookstore when you do) * About Race podcast by Reni Eddo-Lodge, author _Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race_ * Watch Trigger Warning with Killer Mike documentary series onNetflix
* Watch 13th on
Netflix or in full on YouTube* What to do
—including where to donate (Google Doc) * Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I goprotest?
(Courtney Martin on Medium) * Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State (Ben Fountain on Medium) * Need someone who can help you understand the issues? Alexa ishappy to talk.
_How to diversify your daily life by Oh Happy Dani._ ADVOCATE AND AMPLIFY Have you ever read a book and noticed how many “experts” are white, affluent, males? It’s a lot. When you start to pay attention it’s actually mind boggling. This doesn’t make them inherently better, yet their placement and prominence allows them to ride the wave. I invite you to start paying attention to representation and inclusion (this includes, POC , gender, age, and less abled). Who is present, but also who is absent? Did you know the #MeToo movement was started by a Black woman long before it started to get mainstream media attention? Tarana Burke was behind it all, yet most of the media I see tends to celebrate a white female celebrity. And while her role was crucial in the spread, how often was she crediting Burke in her own rise to visibility? Now is a key moment to remember to not take the spotlight from others, but use our voices and channels to amplify other voices. The following examples are people who exemplify being an ally long before the past week. * Grace Bonney’s Good Company Podcast had two episodes that deeply influenced my awareness of race issues. Justina Blakeney discusses radical honesty and diversity in design, and The
importance of inclusion and advocacy with People of Craft cofounders Amélie Lamont and Tim Goodman.
* People of Craft is a platform showcasing creatives of color and their craft. (Note: when considering hiring an artist or illustrator in these times, reach out to a POC who is representative of the population you’re covering. You can also search by race/ethnicity on Women Who Draw.)
* Tim Goodman is a white man who grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He speaks out through his art, and encourages donations to organizations. I highly recommend watching his BLM Stories, particularly for the story about when he shared a jail cell with a Black man and what he learned (and offered to pay his bail). * Gabby Blair AKA Design Mom was early to share 7 tips for anti-racism learning on her blogand Instagram .
* Leslie Jordan invited Deesha Dyer to take over his Instagram with 4.6 million followers to give her a bigger platform and helpamplify her voice.
* Ben & Jerry’s response: We must dismantle white supremacy. Silence is not an option. This is not a media ploy. They have a 2016 post declaring why Blacklives matter
and
use their platform to to dig into education: from slavery to massincarceration
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* Brené Brown with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi talking about “How to Be Anti-Racist” on Unlocking Us _Mimi Moffie via People ofCraft _
I invite you too to think about who you surround yourself with—in real life and online? Does everyone have the same color skin as you? Do you follow different voices online? What kind of books do you read? (What gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation do the authors have? The characters have?) Now is the time to reach beyond our bubble ofcomfort.
It’s important to listen. To stay informed. To donate. But one of the most important roles we can play is advocating for and amplifying Black voices. This is only the beginning and we’re on a long journey. Consider the role you can play. Can you speak up to your employer? Speak up in an organization you’re part of? Suggest a book or article by a POC in your book club? Have a hard conversation? I regularly see the statement “I have work to do” shared by white friends. It’s a reminder that this is not a flick of a switch. It will take time, and effort. And we may get things wrong along the way. But it’s not going to magically disappear. No one said work is easy, but when we do work at something, it is far more rewarding. And we have to commit to the work, not just make it an empty statement to comfort ourselves. This is not designed to make us feel good, but hopefully we can make somebody who is exhausted from a lifetime of this fight feel better in this time—like people are on their side. In my own journey of learning, please share what resources have been most helpful for you. I’m still learning to speak on this topic, so please correct me if you find anything offensive (specifically asking POC). If you’re still struggling to understand what’s going on, ask questions, and I’ll do my best to find an answer for you. * In: Black Lives Matter, BLM
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* 28 May, 2020
IT’S BANANAS. A CREATIVEMORNINGS JOURNEY. I’ve been invited to read the CreativeMornings manifesto at their NYC chapter event on Friday. Things like this don’t happen everyday, so I made a banana map to commemorate the occasion, and the journey! This graphic may just be the most extra thing I’ve ever done. (No, no one asked me to do this.) I took a cue from Tina Roth Eisenberg(aka @swissmiss
, and the founder of the free, global breakfast series CreativeMornings ) who keeps a drawer full of confetti for work. It was Tina who slipped into my DMs early in quarantine inquiring if I would be interested in offering a virtual version of their FieldTrips they’d been testing out. I said yes, even though I didn’t totally know what I would do. (It would go on to include mapping your Covid commute on a banana, inspired by a student in my Skillshare class 7 years ago). Little did I know Tina and the entire CreativeMornings team would show up at my Make A Map! FieldTrip.
Not only did they show up, but they had a blast. In Tina’s words, “My team LOVED your FieldTrip! LOVED! Anne is so genuine, warm, and good at this. She is all heart. Consider me impressed!” Also surprising was that having a few hundred people draw maps on bananas (or oranges, or lemons, or sweet potatoes, or toilet paper tubes), would also in turn provide me a confidence boost in my own work. (Check out #MakeAMapFieldTrip on Twitter+
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CreativeMornings website to join live tomorrow. The main room is long sold out, but join the waitlist to get access to the YouTube livestream. You can always catch a replay later too. _You can find more of my work on my Biz Blog , and weekly newsletter, Connectthe Dots
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