Posts Tagged ‘paris’
OTP’s Guide to Street Food in Paris
If you think Parisians eat expensive shit like snails, frog legs, duck liver and ox tongue on the daily, OTP is about to whip you up a healthy serving of Frenchie food truth. This culinary empire drips down to street level, losing some dollar signs along the way and banging out some of the best [...]
OTP’s Guide to the Best Sex Shops in Paris
Paris is a city where baguettes aren’t the only phallic objects you’ll find. TSA confiscation ruined your good times? Let OTP guide you to the finest sex shops in Paris to restock your toys and trinkets, so you can be saying “oui oui” all the way home. If Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson were to [...]
5 Movies You Must Watch Before Going to Paris
The French took the innocence right out of kissing by making it mandatory to shove your slimy tongue down someone’s throat. All that frou frou L’Amour has its charm, but Paris is just as gritty as the next guy—this is, after all, the place where the guillotine got famous. Dark humor, revolutionary history and scenic [...]
Lounging in Paris: 5 Best Ways to Spend a Day Doing Nothing
A trip to Paris can awaken your soul with romance, confuse your brain with art and dig a hole in your pocket with its €7 cups of coffee. This so-called city of love will keep your heart racing. If the exciting thrill of Parisian travel is giving you the jitters, simmer down to a comfortable [...]
OTP’s Guide to Smelly French Cheese
They’re sweaty, smelly and delicious. Beneath exteriors of ugly blue veins, sweaty orange skins and breathtaking body odor lies a magical world of sensual pleasures; this is the world of French fromage, or cheese. France is the proud home of most of the world’s cheese varieties (250 types). OTP has deciphered the madness and present [...]
What the F*ck is Busking!?
Nothing to do with corn husking or bucking broncos (unless you incorporate them in your act), busking is a great way to get money for some beer and grub by doing ridiculous things in public. Ever see those street artists with an open guitar case? They’re buskers. A mime doing a whole lot of nothing [...]
5 Obscure TV Shows from Around the World
If you have ever flipped through the Spanish channel to see balloon-breasted women dancing the Meringue for no apparent reason, you know that people around the world are entertained by wildly different things. A country’s popular television show is a unique (but limited) glimpse into the culture of its viewership. Mexico’s got a creepy political [...]
A Frenchman’s Guide to Paris for White Trash Americans
Our friend Dimitri is French; very, very French. When we began creating articles for OTP, we asked him to write a little something about Paris. What came out were French-lish phrases and hard to read grammatical abortions. We thought of editing it into something more readable but realized it would greatly compromise the essence of [...]
