Bye bye, "Paris on $25/day"

The Apollo Gallery in the Louvre. [Ed Alcock for The New York Times]

Ann M. Morrison's article strikes a timely note. On the one hand, my brother and sister-in-law have just been posted in Paris for two years beginning in July. Nostalgia floods back over me for the nearly four years I spent there from 1999 to 2003.

But it's also a waku-up call. The article, "Seeing Paris on $250 a Day", published April 10th in the Frugal Traveler reminds us that a good time in Paris, even a "cheap" good time in Paris, isn't free.