A Parisian experience
Giant funfair in Paris – La Foire du Trône – from 3rd April – 31st May 2010
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
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No need to travel nearly an hour to Disneyland when you’ve got 350 attractions on your doorstep…
Photos: JasonW
The Albert Kahn museum celebrates the 150th anniversay of his birth
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
Tons of events and a spiffing new website with light boxes on a dark background (hmmm…). One of our favourite places in Paris gets a youthful reboot by looking 150 years into the past. Here are the details…
The Albert Kahn gardens - photo: JasonW
The château de Malmaison –
Josephine Bonaparte’s lush manor
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
The most famous château near Paris will always be Versailles, but it’s hardly the only château we have to offer. There’s the château de Monte-Christo – the dashing-sounding home of Alexandre Dumas – in Pont-Marly, 17km from Paris (that we would love to go and see to), but this month we chose the château de Malmaison which is less than 10km from the city limits and simple to get with public transport.
So forget the city of get ready to bathe in the rich luxurious fabrics and decoration of the place. It’s packed solid with Empire-style furnishings, thanks to the keen eye of a young lady called Josephine…
photos: JasonW
The Nissim de Camondo museum – astounding
A Parisian experience, Art and Culture
This museum, attached to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, tells not only the story of a family that has since died out, but also shows part of the art collection that they cultivated, all in the large townhouse that they had built on the border of the smart parc Monceau. You feel like your in a château of the Loire valley, and yet your right in Paris…
photos: JasonW
The Bonpoint concept store, rue de Tournon, Paris.
A jaw-dropping venue and prices to match
We recently visited the huge Bonpoint boutique (which is practically the size of a mall) not far from the Hôtel Jardin de l’Odéon, and it’s amazing: a historic Parisian townhouse impeccably decorated with luxury setting for the brand’s luxury childrenswear, toys, a coffee shop and prices beyond belief, but hey: that’s part of what Paris is about! Here’s our (luxury) video tour and photo report.
农历新年 – Chinese New Year 2010 in Paris –
the dragon parades of 14th & 21st February 2010
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
Bye bye water buffalo! Hello metal tiger. Let’s party!
photo by psy4x used under cc licence
10th ‘Traversée de Paris’ – classic cars invading the city and on display Sunday 10th January 2010
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
The lucky owners of classic cars in Paris meet up once a month on a Sunday at the Esplanade du Château de Vincennes, but only once a year do they parade through the city! Over 450 beautifully-preserved vehicles will be taking part in the event on Sunday 10th January 2010, accompanied by 20 vintage motorbikes and three buses that joe public can ride along on…
Last year, the cars went past the Panthéon on their way to the Eiffel Tower...
This photo by Flickr user Parispassion is used under cc licence
Monumenta 2010 by Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais from 13th January – 21st February 2010
A Parisian experience, Art and Culture
After a grand effort from Richard Serra in 2008, gargantuan art installation event Monumenta is turned over to Frenchman Christian Boltanski. As with the previous years’ artists, he will be creating something fittingly huge to be shown in the oversized nave of the Grand Palais…
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A Parisian experience with a difference – a day in Brussels !
What? Have we gone mad? Paris the beautiful! Paris the magnifique! And we’re telling you to get out? As a visitor to our fair city, having made the effort to cross the world to see it, you could be excused for asking why we are encouraging you to go and see grimy, grotty old Brussels. It’s a fair question, and one that we are more than ready ready to answer: because it’s got some amazing things to see, and getting there is as simple as going to Versailles (and nearly as quick).
Don’t believe us? Perhaps our very personal mini-guide will help convince you. This way please for an extraordinary day out…
photos : JasonW
Before the new Spring restaurant opens, we visit
Daniel Rose’s Spring boutique
A Parisian experience, Our favourite things
If you know anything about Parisian gastronomy, you’ll know about the white-hot hype that Daniel Rose’s Spring restaurant (rue de la Tour d’Auvergne) spawned over the last couple of years. Hysteria! Madness! With just sixteen seats and an immense reputation it was almost impossible to get into… and then it closed!
Daniel had decided to get somewhere a little bigger, closed Spring on 14th August 2009 and was supposed to open a new place soon afterwards in rue Bailleul. However, work got more and more behind schedule, and in the meantime Mr. Rose made a chance encounter that spurred him into opening… his own boutique! We went down to rue de l’Arbre Sec in the 1st arrondissement and visited the place for you…
photos: JasonW
