Sweet Tooth Tours & Discount!
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by Paris Weekender
4y ago
This fall, I had the great fortune of being invited to join one of Lynne Staartjes’s Sweet Tooth Tours. Along with one other visitor, I spent about three hours of my Tuesday morning on the Paris Sugar & Spice Picnic Tour in the 16th arrondissement.     Most of the walking tours offered in Paris are based in the more central neighborhoods—the Marais, the city’s islands, the Latin Quarter, Saint-Germain…. Although I try my best to avoid the metro, this trek was well worth it. The 16th is not a touristy neighborhood, yet it has some great architectural gems (see my post about Paris Walks’ ar ..read more
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Cozy Paris Winters
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by Paris Weekender
4y ago
I’ve added something to make winters evenings in Paris just a little bit cozier.  January and February are lovely times to visit Paris. Average temps are in the 40s so it’s perfectly pleasant to walk around and the streets are not as full of tourists as in the warmer months. And January 8th – February 4th, 2020 are the SOLDES!! That means massive sales at pretty much every store in France. But now you can also return home after a day of shopping to cuddle up in front of the fire. Come visit ..read more
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Moving Out
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
A couple of weeks ago, I moved out of the house I’d been renting the last seven years in Brittany. Moving out of a rental in France, it turns out, is a bit more work than moving out of a rental in the U.S. I spoke of some of the bureaucratic challenges in my earlier post on property tax (paid by long-term renters, not just property owners). My checklist for moving out included: Notifying the Centre de Finances Publics of my move so I could stop paying property tax on the house after this calendar year. Ending my internet/phone/cable service with SFR and returning the cable box and mo ..read more
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Taxe d’habitation and the French bureacracy
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
In France, there are two types of property tax, taxe foncière, which is paid by the property owner, and taxe d’habitation, paid by the resident as of January 1 of that year. View from my front door After seven years, I am moving out of my rental in Brittany. I still plan to visit the region every year, but maintaining a year-round house is too much. View from my bedroom skylight I consider myself an expert at moving, but there are a few things that are different from moving in the U.S. and moving in France. One has to do with the condition in which you must leave the home (more o ..read more
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Penultimate GR34 Update
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
Having finished all the mainland segments of Brittany’s coastal trail (the GR34) and many of the islands, I’m now at 1,461 miles logged since November 2014. Here are all my GR34 photos to date. Bay of Quiberon I plan to finish the last few remaining pieces of this sentier cotier, also known as the sentier des douaniers (coast guard or customs officers’ path), in Summer 2020. I’m only missing the islands of Bréhat (Côtes d’Armor); Ouessant, Sein and Molène (Finistère); and Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan). Belle-Île is a 100km circuit but the other islands will be day hikes. Quiberon The ..read more
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Semaine du Golfe
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
At the end of May, I was in Brittany for the biennial week-long festival, the Semaine du Golfe. This “Week of the Gulf” is a celebration of the boating history of the Gulf of Morbihan. There is no racing, but numerous other boat-related festivities, including a kick-off and final boat parade… and lots of music, food and drink! Kick-off boat parade, near Port Navalo I’ve uploaded a few videos from some of my favorite moments of the festival. This first video is of the kick-off parade, just before sunset. My friends and I were lucky enough to be in the parade, to witness it from the water ..read more
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Paris & World Populations Chart
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
This fascinating and dynamic bar chart by John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times (via Jane Friedman‘s website) shows the relative populations of the world’s 10 largest cities from 1500 to 2018. Follow Paris! It only dropped off in many of our lifetimes ..read more
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Eataly in the Marais!
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
Thanks to the wonderful HIPParis blog for sharing that Eataly Paris is now open! Full disclosure: this photo is actually from BigLove of the Big Mamma group Now, three floors and 4,000 m2 of Italian gastronomy is just a 7-minute, 550-meter walk from my apartment. I think that’s doable even after pizza and gelato. Here is the official website for: Eataly Paris Marais 37 Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie 75004 Paris ..read more
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Notre Dame
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
I’ve compiled a few of my favorite photos of Notre Dame that I’ve taken over the years: There are several ways you can donate to help with the rebuilding. Here is one reliable charity, the Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, a 501c3 public charity (all gifts are tax deductible in the United States ..read more
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Lost in Frenchlation April Events!
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by Paris Weekender
5y ago
Lost in Frenchlation has several more events this month and they have kindly offered **two free tickets to the first of Paris Weekender’s readers to email me at parisweekender@gmail.com** and request them. Please note which of the shows below you’d like to attend. *** Lost in Frenchlation organizes screenings of French films with English subtitles in Paris with drinks before the film for the international community to meet! – Grâce à Dieu ☞ Thursday 11 April at  Luminor Hôtel de Ville/Marais. Drinks from 7pm, screening at 8pm. €9.50 Full Price, €7.50 for students and other concess ..read more
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