When I reflect upon how The Traveling Professor concept started, it goes back to the early 2000's. Back then, I used to travel alone to Paris. Frankly, I enjoyed the freedom during the day of doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. But when it came to dinner time, I yearned to socialize with other adults like me. After my book, The Traveling Professor's Guide to Paris was published, and my travel story was publicized in places like The Wall Street Journal and Newsday, travelers who did not have a travel partner wanted to travel with me and my small group tours of active adults. The rest, as they say, is history. Read more in today's blog post.
On our small group tours, women overwhelmingly make up the bulk of my groups. While I can attest to the joy of traveling alone, there are some special precautions that need to be taken. For women traveling alone in Europe, travel is generally safe. However, in today's blog post, The Traveling Professor goes over those precautions that can be taken while traveling solo in Europe.
The Traveling Professor's small group tours will be going to new destinations in the Fall of 2017. About 60% to 90% of those who have traveled with us before go on our trips. We're always looking for new and exciting places to go and we wanted to let you know what we have in the works for our small group tours in 2017.
In honor of fashion week in Paris, let's do a Paris fashion blog post. It's no secret that Paris is the center of the universe in terms of fashion for both men and women. So, on request, and frequently on one of The Traveling Professor's women's tours to Paris, we stop at any one of the three places mentioned in today's blog post.
Forget the beret and striped shirt.
Since my sense of women’s fashion is très mauvais, I have asked author and Paris style expert, Jamie Cat Callan to weigh in on the women’s aspect of what to wear in Paris. Today's travel advice for Paris is for women only as Jamie tells us what to pack in order to avoid a wardrobe faux pas: