Île-de-France Local Customs

 96 Reviews  A few phrases in French will help you navigate the city better. Most people are friendly enough to help and honestly I think it very rude to expect someone to know your language when you are the... 

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 29 Reviews  If you want to look like a local, make sure you are wearing a nice scarf, matched with your coat, artfully knotted around your neck. Even on a rather warm September day when we were sweating, people... 

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 71 Reviews  Unesco World Heritage inmaterial site on Gastronomy and Wines, the first and only one so far, the best experience into the country , the culture comes from the table. Enjoy France at maxim's every... 

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 30 Reviews  We have always encountered musicians of various kinds in the Metro stations, but this trip we saw more than usual on the trains themselves and several were accordion players. I know they are there for... 

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 13 Reviews  A guide that lets you quickly spot on a map the location of the nearest sanisette (free public toilet). And so you don't have to rush in a café and spend your money !(drinks are especially expensive... 

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 9 Reviews  Service charges are included on all restaurant bills at a cost of between 10 and 15 percent. Extra tips are accepted of course if you have received above good service. s fair to add a little more if... 

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 8 Reviews  It's not every day that you get to write a tip on VT which allows you (quite legitmately) to talk about fishnet tights, topless women, black twangy suspender belts,and not to mention tight basques and... 

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 12 Reviews  Bastille day as it is called here on VT is called "Fête Nationale Française" or "Quatorze Juillet" by the French referring to the 14 juillet 1789 "prise de la Bastille" but also the "Fête de la... 

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 32 Reviews  While I am semi-religious and do enjoy the faith aspects of attending a church service in a foreign country, I also go for the music, the architecture and the ambiance. I mean how else do you get to... 

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 16 Reviews  Before we went to Paris, we were told "watch out for all the Dog poo, you know they don't pick it up like we do here!" I think that must have been a while back, as we found the streets to be fairly... 

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 5 Reviews  I always find time to visit the book stalls lining the Left Bank of the Seine River. There always seems to be items if interest, from funny names on books, to historical maps. They have been there a... 

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 8 Reviews  I shall go to Paris and hope the fear of cigarette smoke is less than in the west. There is no reason why both nonsmokers and smokers can't have a place to go. Unless of course the nonsmokers have a... 

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 9 Reviews  Anyone who spends money on a trip to Paris wants to have a great time. Here are some tips on how to have a great time by respecting the French view of different classes of eating establishments.... 

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 14 Reviews  Did you ever wonder how they keep the Pei Pyramid at the Louvre clean? We were taking a coffee break in Café Richelieu one afternoon recently and my husband, who was facing the courtyard, noticed a... 

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 11 Reviews  On the way to Sunday brunch many roads on our route were closed and secured by police, stationed at the corners. We zig-zagged through the city and finally found a road wide open. Suddenly we... 

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 18 Reviews  One of the best and most original songs about Paris remains for me "Il est cinq heures Paris s'éveille" from and by Jacques Dutronc a French singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist and actor (born... 

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 9 Reviews  I booked this trip just a couple of weeks short of my niece's 18 birthday and it ended up saving me quite a bit of money, everything we did except the boat ride on the Seine was free for children... 

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 6 Reviews  Since 2002 the banks of the Seine in Paris have been transformed each summer into a beach-- Paris Plage. This offers Parisians and tourists a rather surprising plot twist when strolling along the... 

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 7 Reviews  Walking Along the Seine on the left bank we saw these 2 French Law and order types on horseback.With the shining streets and the Parisian buildings in the background it almost looked turn of the... 

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 6 Reviews  Since the January 1st 2002, the currency in force in France is the Euro. One face is common for all the European countries which are in the Euro Area. The other is special for France. BUT YOU CAN... 

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 9 Reviews  well not a local custom but one that is getting popular every year. When I first came to live in France back in 2003 (versailles) , I wanted to continue the traditions of my adopted country the... 

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 2 Reviews  In many areas of Paris you will find "street artists", but especially in Montmartre! Monmartre is known as an artists' community and you'll have plenty of opportunities to have a painting done of you... 

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 3 Reviews  In the summer of 2006 I initiated a forum thread called One thousand one hundred and seventy-eight, which was the number of Eiffel Tower tips in VirtualTourist at that time. My question in that... 

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