NO WORRIES PARIS

THE GOLD MEDAL GUIDE FOR THE

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  • Paris’s treasured attic: Musée Carnavalet

    Located on the Right Bank in the Marais is a museum housing the history of Paris. The exterior with it’s dripping vines, roses and French formal gardens screams “photo op!” Digesting all there is to see in one visit (and it’s free) is almost an impossible feat, but worth a try. As visitors wander through…

  • Notre Dame Cathedral: taking it to the top

    The best views of Paris can be seen from the Eiffel Tower, Pantheon, Tour Montparnasse, Sacre Coeur, Arc de Triomphe and least visited because of space limitations, Notre Dame towers. Get there at 10 and you’ll have no trouble winding your way up the 387 claustraphobic stairs to hobnob with the gargoyles and see the…

  • Jules and Jim: the seminal French new wave movie

    An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, was a worldwide smash in 1962 and remains every bit as audacious and entrancing today. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, Truffaut came across it in the mid-fifties while browsing through a second…

  • Botanical Garden Fans: start your engines

    The Place: Jardin des Plantes 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 An ideal place for a Sunday stroll. Kids will love the zoo and opportunity to run wild. Details in your No Worries Paris guidebook.