Adrian Leeds, Author at International Living Members Area

Beat the Bureaucrats: The Real Story on Rental Laws in Paris

By Adrian Leeds June 2016

The Parisian pied-à-terre of your dreams is finally yours. Leaning on the ornate iron railings of your balcony, you look out over a tree-lined boulevard, the Eiffel Tower piercing the sky in the distance. Glass of wine in hand, you relax and enjoy an orange sunset over the City of Light. Surely you could never tire of this…and even if you could, there’s lots of money to be made from others hoping to call Paris home for a few months.

Ooh La La! The Art of Faking It

By Adrian Leeds October 2012

After almost 18 years in Paris, the conclusion is that my level of French is “dismal.” Recently, at the French-English conversation group that I co-founded more than 14 years ago with a 27-year veteran director of Berlitz, it was clear that, of all the people in the group, I had made the least effort.

7 Work-from-Anywhere Tips

By Adrian Leeds July 2011

For almost 17 years Paris has been my home, and for all that time I’ve worked from my portable U.S. office… living the dream I had for so many years to be rooted in the City of Light.