April 19, 2023
Paris is known as the City of Light, but it could just as aptly be nicknamed the City of Lit.
After all, it's the hometown of writer-stuffed cafés, poet-haunted cobbled lanes, green bookstalls flanking the Seine, Gertrude Stein's salon, Marcel Proust's cork-lined bedroom, the hunchback's Notre-Dame, the phantom's Opera, and Oscar Wilde's…
The annoyances start here, with what the airline jauntily calls “Our tailored fares: travel à la carte.” Translation: We’re going to play every mind game in the book to get you to spend more than you intended.
Travelers are first shown a very low price, but that’s only for a painfully no-frills “Basic” ticket. From…