Paris Favorites

 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,... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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,... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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... 

 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.... 

 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... 

 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.... 

 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...