NO WORRIES PARIS
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Prowling the city of the dead: Pere Lachaise Cemetery
I spend time here. The winding alleys are stacked with graves, so calming, so unlike the buzzing surrounding streets of the city. There’s wisdom to be learned from the headstones and abandoned vaults and most visitors are congregated around the celebrity artists so you have much of the cemetery to yourself. The centerpiece is the…
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Postcard from Notre Dame’s backyard and the bees
A good share of tourists never wander beyond the front plaza, interior or bell tower. Walk behind the cathedral to Square Jean XXIII for a little tranquility. Shaded benches will be your friend and the view of the flying buttresses and gothic Fountain of the Virgin will entertain your camera. A little known fact: not far,…
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E. Dehillerin: where Julia shopped
This is IT: Paris’s sanctum sanctorum for professional and amateur cooks. An “old school” mecca for everything in cookware. A 200-year-old establishment selling everything from 20 different sizes of spring form pans to stock pots big enough for a full-sized boar. Quality is what they’re all about. A garlic press purchased here will last until the…
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Sneakers in Paris?: OUI, you betcha
Call them what you like: chaussure de sport, cross-trainers, sneakers, tennies, running shoes. The news is they’re “in”. They were everywhere, pounding the pavement on the Champs Elysees (where the Adidas shoes store is located) and behind the barricades of Fashion Week 2015. Almost anything goes as long as they’re clean. Now you know. If you need an…
trailblazer travel books
No Worries Paris is eighth in the lineup of Trailblazer Travel Book adventure guides. Other titles include No Worries Hawaii, Kauai Trailblazer, Maui Trailblazer, Oahu Trailblazer, Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer, Alpine Sierra Trailblazer , Golden Gate Trailblazer and Range of Light Trailblazer.Trailblazer Travel B.
a photographic walking guide 