2 Nights in Paris
When flying international, we like to book the national airline of our destination. This way, our cultural immersion can start before we even leave the US. On previous trips, we have flown Swiss Air, China Air, Finnair, LOT (Polish), Air Lingus (Ireland), even Aeroflot (Russian). So it was a no-brainer to book a red-eye on Air France to Paris. Besides, with the recent controversies over at Boeing, we felt a little safer flying on an Airbus which is an European commercial airplane builder. One of the real benefits of flying Air France is access to French movies without American distributors. And what luck, I didn't know Michel Gondry (my absolutely favorite French director) had made a new movie called The Book of Solutions and it was available to stream right on my seatback screen. Gondry hasn't made a major feature film since Mood Indigo in 2015 (I was one of the few people who actually appreciated what many people dismissed as an incomprehensible disaster). So I sat back, ...