NO WORRIES PARIS
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Hotel de Sens and the notorious Queen Margot
Hotel de Sens is one of the city’s two remaining Gothic residences complete with watchtower and dungeon (the other being Hotel Cluny on the Left Bank that is now an acclaimed museum for the Middle Ages). Critics complain about the authenticity of renovations made after the city purchased the building in 1911, but the end…
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Painting Paris: the Luxembourg Gardens
The best season of all: fall. This cafe, a favorite. One of the stops in your No Worries Paris guidebook.
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Ritzy Place Vendome
The aroma of perfumed money wafts the 300-yard expanse of cobblestones at Place Vendome, among the most chi-chi and mighty of Parisian addresses since it was laid out in 1702. But this square of uniformly arcaded facades has not lacked turmoil. An equestrian statue of Louis XIV was torn down after the monarchy fell. A…
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Belle Époque Paris
Galerie Vivienne, from 1823. Enter through the neoclassical stucco friezes and walk the marble-mosaic floors past esoteric boutiques, galleries, and antiquarian bookstores. The gallery makes a right-angle and drops to a lower section, all of it in the natural glow from skylights. Make it a passageway afternoon adventure by following the walking directions in the…
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 