France, Paris.L'amour, l'amour, toujours l'amourYesterday it was hip and trendy Brits and glamorous financial towers along the Thames; today it’s the City of Love and the art of living along the Seine. Only in Europe can you find two such contrasting cities just a few hundred miles apart. France and its capital city Paris were the 19th stop ...

France, Paris.L'amour, l'amour, toujours l'amourYesterday it was hip and trendy Brits and glamorous financial towers along the Thames; today it’s the City of Love and the art of living along the Seine. Only in Europe can you find two such contrasting cities just a few hundred miles apart. France and its capital city Paris were the 19th stop on Christa Klickermann’s European journey … and a place she was returning to after a 38-year absence. Back then the newly-qualified hotel manager spent a few carefree months at the international language school in Rambouillet, partied out on the streets until well past midnight, chattered away for hours with portrait artists on the steps of Montmartre … and fell in love for the first time. As an homage to those wonderful few months spent here in 1976, she decided to once again make ‘love’ the leitmotiv of her visit – but this time without the rose-tinted glasses. In the narrow streets of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, in quiet museum halls and secluded parks, she goes in search of the legendary French l’art de vivre and discovers just how passionately the French feel about their language, their fine cuisine and their German neighbours.

Europeans at heart is a vivid and colourful series of travel and culture books that brings you closer to Europe’s countries and its people. This eBook is an extended and updated travel account taken from ‘Europeans at heart. A journey of discovery through 28 EU capitals’.CONTENT+ The thrill of the unknown+ France (FR) at a glance+ L’amour, l’amour, toujours l’amour+ Christa Klickermann, talking with Adeline Affre+ Additional Links+ He who knows nothing, must believe it all: Europe, the key facts+ In touch with Europe – an authentic journey of discoveryPraise for Europeans at heart:Interview with Deutsche Welle“After reading this book, you will find it impossible not to fall in love with Europe.”Schekker, the German Government’s online portal for young people“This collection of accounts delivers a brief but brilliant glimpse into life in Europe’s incredibly diverse countries, as well as lots of useful information and fabulous pictures that will fill you to the brim with wanderlust. Having taken a literary voyage through the continent via the pages of this book, I can definitely say that I am European at heart. What about you?”Polen-pl.eu: online Polish culture portal“‘The one language that we all understand, and which closely connects all of us Europeans, is the language of the heart: the desire to understand, to empathise, to laugh and find out more about one another.’ And that, according to Christa Klickermann, is the key to living together in harmony. With her book, the author hopes to inspire us and imbue us with a sense of confidence about Europe’s future, and she more than succeeds in doing both. Her approach is so effective in fact that as a reader you feel tempted to take leave and embark on your own European journey of exploration.”Blog of the author:europeans-at-heart.eu