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Eiffel Tower Paris
228 Reviews Shopping was awesome please Tour the purfumerie factory and make a purchase there as well. The effel Towel was my best spot I brought a perfect basket lunch from home in Wiesbaden Germany that...
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Walking Around Paris
170 Reviews I spent a day in Paris in 2009. On my way from Munich to New Delhi , I took a detour in Paris. I just had to see the Eiffel and had heard a lot about cabaret at The LIDO. I used a day pass for metro,...
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Louvre Paris
128 Reviews As I have seen Le Louvre in the early sixties well before the pyramid which dates from 1989 but also well before the huge renovation works outside and inside undergone by the Palais du Louvre I have...
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Arrondissements (sections of Paris) Paris
52 Reviews Travel is an intensely personal thing, and thankfully there is no 'one size fits all' solution. Each traveller needs to customise their itinerary to suit their available time, budget and personal...
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Montmartre & Sacré Coeur Paris
111 Reviews As I said in my Montremartre tip, there is a different atmosphere in Montmartre. Some say it is more like a village than a suburban district. Certainly it has more quaint buildings and a different...
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La Seine Paris
136 Reviews The river Seine is not as wide as the Tames or the Rhine but is so more beautiful when crossing Paris. Not because of the river itself but because of the scenery on the banks of the Seine. A cruise...
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Versailles Paris
39 Reviews If you read some of my reviews you can't ignore that my first favorite palace inside Paris is Le Louvre and the second, although outside Paris (30 min by the RER), is Versailles. I must confess that...
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Champs-Elysées Paris
52 Reviews The Champs-Élysées is one of Paris best-known avenues. It's 1910 meters long and runs from the Obelix to the Arc de Triomphe. In 1616 Marie de Medici decided to extend of the Tuileries Gardens to...
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Dining & Drinking Paris
91 Reviews It's almost impossible not to encounter a drinking water fountain when you walk at Paris. Interesting enough they are called Wallace fountains after Sir Richard Wallace, who inherited a large...
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Parks, Gardens, & Squares Paris
82 Reviews The Jardins du Luxembourg are my favored gardens in Paris because they combine with such a perfection of trees, flowers, water basins, statues, fountain and an elegant palace. First there is an...
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Disneyland Paris Paris
51 Reviews Just came back from Disney Paris. Actually it' our second time. This time we had nice time only because of our good spirit. The rides were extremely crowded and not everything has a fast pass. Grown...
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Shopping Paris
33 Reviews Of course, shopping in Paris is always associated with going to these huge department stores called les grands magasins, like the Galeries Lafayette or the Printemps…but then their prices can still be...
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Notre Dame de Paris Paris
104 Reviews The sculptures on the front of the Notre Dame tell many religious stories, and can often show you the stereotypes and beliefs of the past. My tour guide told me of a few of the stories that some of...
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Place de la Concorde Paris
26 Reviews On Place de la Concorde you will discover what is the essence of the monumental architecture of the most beautiful city in the world. Go there in the evening; the traffic has decreased so that you...
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Métro, RER, and Trains Paris
32 Reviews well long write up will try to answer and catch it all. Welcome to Paris the city of lights,you will enjoy it. La Defense is known for a business area but it has an excellent commercial mall center...
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Arc de Triomphe Paris
78 Reviews Standing below the arch I was reading the many names of the battles won by Napoleon's soldiers when I had a surprise: OPORTO. This means our Porto, a city that calls herself "invicta" and that means...
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Markets Paris
18 Reviews I just love browsing around markets where people do their every day shopping - and Paris has some fabulous ones The colours and smells - cheese sellers with their mountains of wheels, pyramids, boxes,...
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Parlez vous Francais? Paris
23 Reviews One of our favorite things about Paris is the interaction with the people. Whether it is the desk clerk at the hotel, the merchant in a store, your waiter or waitress in a restaurant or people you...
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Le Marais Paris
14 Reviews Recently, I was thinking of the places Carol and I had been and was wondering...in which of these places had I felt the most connected to a community (?). Of all the possible little villages and...
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Books & Guides Paris
31 Reviews Almost French by Sarah Turnbull is a love story, but more the journey of a young Australian woman to become a part of France as she marries a Frenchman and moves to Paris. I found it entertaining and...
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La Conciergerie Paris
6 Reviews Since the medieval halls have been restored in the year 2000 and new lightings installed the Conciergerie is really spectacular and worth the visit. Surprising is the fact that the floor of these...
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Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
18 Reviews Here is where you'll meet representatives from each of France's historical colonies and possessions. In my photo you can see the Vietnamese guy on the left and the Ivory Coast characters on the right....
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Latin Quarter Paris
17 Reviews Sitting on the parapet of the Pont (that is bridge) St.-Michel late on a warm pleasant night, talking with friends and drinking in the self-centered activities swirling around and looking at the...
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La Défense Paris
27 Reviews This skyscraper business city on the western edge of Paris is the largest office developement in Europe. La Grande Arche is an enormous hollow cube large enough to contain Notre-Dame cathedral....
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Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris
14 Reviews I like two types of cemeteries quite different from each other: the British war cemeteries (ref. my tips on Ypres (Belgium) and Etaples (North of France) with their beautiful layout of all the same...
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If it's your first trip to Paris, get a copy of "Rick Steves Paris" and read it BEFORE you get on the plane ! He has suggested "walks" and even schedules for 3, 5 & 7 day visits. You can use one of his plans or create one yourself -- but plan your days BEFORE you get there so you don't waste a minute while there ! BUT, also be ready (and willing !) to make changes on-the-fly ! Remember, it's only a plan -- just to make sure you think of everything you WANTED to see. But as time passes, your "wants" may change -- go with it ! The WHOLE experience !
I went to La Defense to get some pics for my VT friend Juschka. I woke up on the early morning of a Saturday, as there is almost nobody in La Defense during the weekend. Indeed, La Defense is more a working place than an entertaining buildings-made-of-glass museum... Consequently, if you go to La Defense during the weekend, you will only meet other tourists takings pictures, rowdys doing nothing but erring in the Mall called 'Les Quatre Temps' and some fugitive ghosts usually called 'over the weekend workers', lost souls walking quickly from the exit of the metro towards the entrance of a building from which you won't see them getting out (unless you stay until late at night ... !)... What you must know about La Defense is that, as it is a flat, quite open and large area, the wind blows really hard, especially in fall and winter, and, when you have decided to wake up early to take some...
Best place to go to is the north coast of France.
The weirdo building, a more typical one and a designed street lamp... I like this association...
Four Seasons George V Paris Paris
5 Reviews and 556 Opinions The Four Seasons George V is truly one of the world's great hotels. I really, really love to stay...
Trianon Palace Hotel Versailles
5 Reviews and 500 Opinions Now part of Hilton's Waldorf-Astoria Collection of hotels, this is a small but very refined hotel....
Novotel Marne La Vallee Collegien Marne-la-Vallée
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Reviews and photos of Île-de-France attractions posted by real travelers and locals. The best tips for Île-de-France sightseeing.
Q: My husband and I will be visiting South West France in late November to see art and architecture. We are flying in and out of...
A: We love Carcassonne, the restored castle. Just south of it is an abbey at St. Hilaire that is also nice. Carcassonne has a train station but I think you'd need to take a...
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