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Weekly Get-to-Know-Paris Challenge #12!
This week's get-to-know-Paris challenge is to catch the sunset! Bring your camera out with you so you can capture the colors of the sky. From the Pont des Arts Clear skies are not only nearly impossible to find in Paris, they are generally not the best for sunsets...
Chocolate Tasting at Un Dimanche à Paris
Chocolate Tasting –What’s That? Recently, I attended a dégustation de chocolat (chocolate tasting) at Un Dimanche à Paris on the historic cobblestoned Cour du Commerce Saint André in Paris’s 6th arrondissement. What on earth is a chocolate tasting, you ask? Well, that...
Weekly Get-to-Know-Paris Challenge #11!
As you know by now, I am a big fan of getting out there and walking the city. This week's challenge is to sign up for a guided walking tour of some corner of the city. Even if you have lived in Paris for years, I guarantee that you will learn something new. I have...
Weekly Get-to-Know-Paris Challenge #9!
This week's challenge is to walk to or home from work one day - or maybe you'll be surprised at how much you enjoy it, and you'll start walking every day! If you live too far to walk, at least make a point of walking for a portion of your commute. Unless it's pouring...
Happy Birthday, Paris Weekender!
Paris Weekender Turns One! Exactly one year ago today, on April 15, 2011, I posted my very first post on Paris Weekender, on a subject close to my heart, BURRATA. This is my 122nd post. To date, Paris Weekender has welcomed 7,124 unique visitors and 20,496 pageviews....
Le Palais Garnier: Opera & Architecture
Le Palais Garnier or Opéra Garnier is one of Paris's most recognizable landmarks, famous as much for its intricate and ornamental façade (completely renovated and restored in 2000) and grand staircase made of marble as for its auditorium and the importance of that...
Weekly Get-to-Know-Paris Challenge #7!
This week's get-to-know-Paris challenge is to slow down and read the historic markers! Have you noticed these brown signs around the city? Well, next time you pass one, take a look and you might just learn something! Does you know where the marker in this photo is...
Weekly Get-to-Know-Paris Challenge #3!
How often do you jump on a Velib' ? If you've never used a Velib', one of Paris's point-to-point rental bikes, make it your challenge for this week to try it out! And if you are already familiar with the Velib's, why not see if you can go one whole day only getting...
Upcoming Wine Fair Alert!
March and November may bring bleak weather, but they are vibrant months for wine lovers in Paris. There are two big wine fairs coming up in March: this weekend (March 9th -12th) at Espace Champerret, Porte de Champerret in the 17th arrondissement and March 23rd - 26th...
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