» Paris on a Budget
The NYT’s Frugal Traveler hits the City of Lights.
Paris—the physical as well as the cultural—is the creation less of the moneyed nobility than of the strivers, schemers, hustlers, freeloaders and starving artists who roam its streets, sing chansons on its subways and make tiny cups of coffee last hours at zinc counters.Dig the slide show. Related: Mark Bittman on the current state of the Parisian bistro.