Susan Spano, an easy-to-read travel writer for the LA Times, is spending seven months in Paris. She writes a weekly column entitled "Her World" and snippets entitled "Postcards from Paris." Both are available on the LA Times website at http://www.latimes.com/travel/ You'll need to register, but it's free. Delightful reading for those who love Paris.

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Thanks for the link. I wondered where she had gotten to! She used to write a lot for the NYX travel section but I hadn''t seen her lately!

I started reading Susan's columns when she was at the NY Times. Her current column has an interview with Michael Palin. My personal favorite from one of her columns - someone asked a 99 year old man if he had been to a particular place and he replied "Not yet!".

I never saw this when originally posted...

Spano fans (and "Parisio-philes&quot will find it of interest to know that there are now fifteen installments, as of this weekend...

http://www.latimes.com/travel/columnists/postcards specifically... (still requires the aforementioned free registration)...

Best wishes,

Rex

Hmmm...thought that title looked familiar. Will check her more recent installments, thanks to Rex.

Her original plan was to spend 7 months but she has extended the stay. Tough job.

Unfortunately, readers of the LA Times regularly write to the Times to complain about Spanos' "un-American" perspective. This week was the first time I've seen them publish a reader's letter defending her.

I don't mean to be obtuse, but I don't see any evidence of an "un-American" perspective in her postcards. Is it visible somewhere else?

WillTravel

Nothing un-American in her postcards. On occasion, in Her World columns she brings in politics and I think this is where people would disagree with her viewpoint. I've been reading her column for over a decade - I think she does a good job.

Another regular reader of the LA times travel section and don't sgree that Spano is particularly political, or that she gets many complaints from readers, aside from the 'freedom fries' crowd.

Just spent about an hour enjoying Spano.

Kavey just posted elsewhere a very useful site where you can get a fake ID to log in to sites: bugmenot.com

I had opted not to read old Spano columns because I didn't want to give LA Times all that information, but then found Kavey's post. It worked great!