NO WORRIES PARIS

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  • Ladurée: Paris’s luxe temple of macaron holiness

    Pop one or two or three: Each and every day Ladurée bakeries sell fifteen thousand double-decker small biscuits, crisp on the outside, smooth and soft ganache-filled. Wow. Ingredients include ground almonds, eggs, sugar, coloring, flavoring and a pinch of je ne sais quoi. After baking, the yummies are set aside for two days to achieve…

  • Shoe scouting in Paris

    Arrive practically barefoot and buy your boots or shoes here in Paris. The windows in the 6th will have you drooling. Decision making will be hard and the 200 euro models will impact your bank account hard but no worries, you’ll be hip and supercool for winter 2013.

  • Haircut advice: Paris

    All these salons have well trained stylists and the rates are excellent. Enter without an appointment and leave an hour later looking like une vrais Parisianne. My haircut, shampoo and styling last week at Biguine, Bonne Nouvelle was 52 euros. JEAN-CLAUDE BIGUINE http://www.biguine.com OPERA 16, avenue de l’Opéra 75001 Paris Tél : 01 40 20…

  • Pont des Arts: those controversial love locks

    Parisians have mixed feelings about these locks and whether they are to be removed is being tossed around by the city. Around the world lovers are attaching locks to bridges to symbolize their eternal love and throwing away the key. On the Pont de l’Archeveche near Notre Dame there are currently over 2,000. My guess…