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Flashback to one month ago

20 Monday Nov 2017

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Zipping around Paris taking in all the events, art exhibits, new restaurants, new attractions never gets tiring. It’s all the work when I arrive back home and have to update my Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Tumbler and blog accounts. Complaining, I’m not, it’s a gig many have told me they’re envious of. I understand. After many years as a graphic designer, secretary, stone mason, aerobic dance teacher, chocolate chip cookie baker, and photographer, life has just worked out that way.

While in Paris I had one minute of fame. Crawling the internet at night post Balmain show I came across the Vogue Magazine online site. Lo and behold there I was on point shooting one of the cognoscenti. Thank you staff photographer Phil Oh who included it in his “Best Street Photos from Paris Fashion Week.” It made my day, my year, though I guess that’s my ego speaking.

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Okay, enough about that. Time to get onboard and sell some books.  No Worries Paris is on the shelf at Powell’s Books.    Amazon.com too, of course or at www.trailblazertravelbooks.com. Thanks for giving it some consideration, it’s a pretty helpful walking guide to have along.

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The magnificent Musée d’Orsay

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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What I like most about this museum: they’re always upgrading it. They call their present project Nouvel Orsay. From their website: “We are going to try and establish a different rhythm in the presentation, whilst still respecting the various “schools” and great artistic personalities. We will try to bring out more meaning, and introduce more stimulating questions […] It has to be surprising, thought-provoking. Through this new interdisciplinary approach, presenting the works in relation to other disciplines, we are getting back to the essence of the original project.

I would like to create the best possible conditions for the visitor to view the works in a way that is well informed, unconstrained and imaginative. The works will have more space; the display cases will be less intrusive. They will invite dialogue with the artists all around them. The presentation will be more “polyphonic”; the categories will be less assertive”.

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Events you should mark:

Pierre Bonnard. Painting Arcadia
17 March – 19 July 2015

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Dolce Vita? From the Liberty to Italian Design (1900-1940)
14 April – 13 September 2015

Splendors and Miseries. Pictures of Prostitution in France (1850-1910)
22 September 2015 – 17 January 2016

Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers?
Second Part: 1914-1945
13 October 2015 – 24 January 2016

view from the roof of the museum

view from the roof of the museum

Musée d’Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007
Metro: line 12, to Solférino
RER: line C, to Musée d’Orsay
Bus: 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, 94

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Tips for inexperienced Paris vacation renters

15 Monday Jun 2015

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Realities:

1. Your apartment will pale in complexion to what you can get in the U.S. for the same price unless you want to spend an exorbitant rental rate (like $500 a night).

2. Kitchens are miniature, bathrooms are even more extreme (think knees touching walls) and apartment hallways and stairs date from the middle ages. To open your apartment with a key you have to rely on the time you’ve pressed the button for hall light. It can sometimes last less than a minute.

3. Landlords come in all sizes. Some speak English, some none at all, and there are a variety of payment methods (watch out for bank transfers). Don’t be forced into making a rush decision. Use your telephone, speak with the landlord and evaluate from there. Are you dealing with a management company or the owner? Some vacation rental management companies are super efficient and make transactions easier. Ask me for referrals.

4. Know the location you want to stay. The 6th is trendy/touristy, the 7th is conservative and the 8th can be pricey and unworthy of a high rental fee. Check out how far it is away from the metro stop or the grocery store.

5. Photos: examine the bedroom first (real bed? pullout? sofa bed? suspended from ceiling? Murphy? loft?). Does it look cozy, clean? Is it in a separate room? Kitchen: how many burners, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher? in-house clothes washer? Worth the extra dollars.

6. Which floor: are you in the maid’s quarters on the roof, 7th floor? Can you stand up straight in the apartment? Does the elevator take you there? Has the photograph been taken with a “fisheye” lens making it look a lot bigger. Look at the square footage.

7. High speed internet, tv? How loud is the sound coming from your neighbor (sometimes hard to get the truth)? Ask if it’s quiet or put 2 and 2 together: are you on the street? How thin are the walls? How old is the building? Cement buildings are some of the best if you are seeking quiet.

8. The landlord and the reviews: can you communicate easily and what do other travelers say about the property.

9. Gut feeling. If you are communicating easily with the landlord or manager, this is a plus. PayPal is a good way to pay for the deposit; bank transfer sometimes signals “hacker”.  100% refund if you decide not to go 60 days ahead of time?

Filtering out what you like and don’t like takes time. Though landlords will try to rush you, don’t buy into it. You’re spending a lot of money and if you start your hunt way in advance of your travels (say 6 months) you will be ahead of the game. Landlords are more likely to reduce the fee, especially if you’re staying longer than 2 weeks or during low season (dead of winter).

Remember expectations. Think tiny, think romantic, think historic, think location, think PARIS. Where you stay is a major decision and will definitely impact your vacation. Don’t rush it. Feel good about your choice. And mind your manners. When communicating the landlords or vacation management personnel, be on your best behavior. “Please” and “thank you” should pepper your sentences.

Good luck!

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See it all with No Worries Paris

31 Saturday May 2014

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Notre Dame Cathedral: taking it to the top

21 Wednesday May 2014

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Gargoyles of Notre Dame

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 historic bell. It costs 8.50 euros but if you have a Paris Pass there’s no charge (this doesn’t mean you can cut into the front of line).

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Getting there early means better air clarity and no one in the way when you Instagram your Selfie. Warding off evil since 1362, these grotesque monsters are now becoming 21st century instant celebs.

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This is one of the highlights on your first walk in the No Worries Paris guidebook. Consult for more interesting sights in the vicinity.

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Recommended Paris hotels for 2015

02 Thursday Jan 2014

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Priced right, set in the best locations, these hotels don’t come with state-of-the-art bells and whistles, but have kept their charm and offer top notch service.

Melia Royal Alma Boutique Hotel
35 Rue Jean Goujon
Paris 75008
http://www.melia.com/fr/hotels/france/paris/melia-royal-alma-boutique-hotel/index.html
33 800 91 91 30

La Maison Favart
5, Rue de Marivaux | 2nd Arr, 75002
http://www.lamaisonfavart.com

Hotel Residence Foch
10 rue Marbeau, 75116
http://www.foch-paris-hotel.com

Hotel Ducs de Bourgogne
19 Rue du Pont Neuf, 75001 Paris, France
Phone:+33 1 42 33 95 64
http://www.bestwestern-bourgogne.com

Hotel Le Sainte-Beuve
9 Rue Sainte-Beuve
Paris, 75006

Hotel Nicolo
3 rue Nicolo | 16th Arr., 75016
https://www.hotel-nicolo.fr/en/

Paris France Hotel
72 Rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris, France
Phone:+33 1 42 78 00 04
http://www.paris-france-hotel.com

Hotel Taylor
6 Rue Taylor, 75010 Paris
Phone:+33 1 42 40 11 01
http://www.paris-hotel-taylor.com

Hotel Le Six
14, rue Stanislas, 75006
http://www.hotel-le-six.com/fr/

Relais Saint Jacques
3 Rue Abbé De L’ Epée
Paris, 75005
http://relais-saint-jacques.com/fr/accueil/

Belloy Saint-Germain
2, Rue Racine
Paris, 75006
http://www.hotel-paris-belloy.com

Best Western Trianon Rive Gauche
1 Bis Rue De Vaugirard
Paris, 75006
http://www.hoteltrianonrivegauche.com

Hotel Fontaines Du Luxembourg
4 Rue De Vaugirard
Paris 75006
33 1 43 25 35 90
http://www.luxembourghotel.com

For multimillionaires I have one added suggestion if you’re willing to wait until August: Peninsula Paris, 19 Avenue Kieber. Set in a century-old Beaux-Arts building, it will offer five restaurants and bars include an upscale Chinese restaurant and cigar lounge, 1,700-square-meter subterranean spa with an indoor pool with LED mood lighting, herbal steam rooms and ice fountains. Price: astronomical.

Staying at any one of these establishments gives you out-the-door entrée for walks with your No Worries Paris guidebook. Make 2014 the year you finally make that trip to this romantic city.

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Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature: a cabinet of curiosities

01 Saturday Jun 2013

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Blink going down the rue des Archives and you’ll miss the sign of this unstodgy private museum where you’ll trip the light fantastic. The ceiling of one room has been covered in owl feathers in a work called The Night of Diana, rooms have names such as Room of the Boar, Salon of the Dogs and Cabinet of the Wolf, an alcove is dedicated to unicorns and a collection of gold dog collars throughout the ages is displayed alongside 17th-century portraits of Louis XIV’s pets. A small white version of the Scottie dog sculpture Puppy by contemporary American ceramic artist Jeff Koons is also part of the mix.

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The museum includes an array of weaponry from the 16th through to the 19th centuries, hundreds of trophies and taxidermied animals from Europe, Africa, Asia and America. These include a polar bear, lion, tiger, cheetah, fox, rhinoceros, bison, water buffalo and many birds. In the Room of Trophies, Le Souillot, a wall-mounted animatronic albino boar head by contemporary French artist Nicolas Darrot, speaks to museum visitors in French. There’s a hunting lodge coziness to the place where guards take pleasure in opening drawers filled with artifacts and children are given special attention.

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It’s been characterized by the Smithsonian magazine as “one of the most rewarding and inventive in Paris.” To quote a visitor: “it all makes you think about hobbies, prestige, the meaning of life, nature, domination, death, social class, art and our relationship to animals and life around us. There is the amazing and the prosaic, jokes and tricks and strange juxtapositions of materials. The stuffed lions and disassembled owls are especially haunting. The gun that shoots around corners is one of the many jokes displayed alongside the rare the beautiful and the serious.”

Duck in some afternoon. The admission is around 6 euros and it’s closed on Mondays. The No Worries Paris guidebook has more for you to see a few doors down.

Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature
60 rue des Archives, 3rd Arrondissement
http://www.chassenature.org/index1.html

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Tired of walking Paris? Take a bus ride

09 Saturday Mar 2013

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Sometimes there’s more daylight left but your feet won’t cooperate to make more tracks. A solution is taking the bus, same price as a metro ticket with a lot more flavor and scenic opportunity. The inside is as interesting as the outside on certain routes.

Here’s how: go to Paris’s main transportation website: http://www.ratp.fr/en/ratp/c_21879/tourists/

click on: Finding Your Way in Paris

fill in: The bus stop closest to your apt where you will get on, then your destination. It will show you the route to get there. Or you can do the same thing with the metro.

The site also has a big route map of where the buses go. Make sure you get a window seat nearest the driver. He can help you with getting off at the right stop. It is common courtesy to say “Bonjour” (“hello,” used in the morning and afternoon) or “Bonsoir” (“hello,” used in the evening) to the bus driver.

Best routes for sightseeing: 69, 63, 24 and 87. Take it to the end (usually not a terribly hospitable place but ask the bus driver where the bus stop is for the return trip: le retour).

To catch a bus, climb aboard and simply insert your ticket (use the same T+ ticket as the métro) in the slot machine upon entering (validate). If you don’t have a ticket, no worries, the drivers will take coins and the cost of a single ticket is about €1.90. If you’re planning to use the bus and métro often during your stay in Paris, consider purchasing a carnet, or book, of 10 tickets to save some money or check into the different. Even longer, buy a Navigo pass. And away you go!

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Paris: love is in the air and it’s still only January

02 Saturday Feb 2013

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Tourists do the darndest things for a photo. This one, by Leon Drivier called “Joie de Vivre” is touching if you look directly at the sculptural faces smiling down at the person reaching up on her tiptoes. We are at the Palais de Chaillot, also named Trocadero, crowning the Chaillot hill facing the Eiffel Tower. The Palais du Trocadéro was built for the World Fair in Paris in 1878, dismantled then replaced by the Palais de Chaillot in 1937 for the international Arts et Techniques dans la Vie moderne fair. Much to do here, bustling every day. Find all the museums, check out the dramatic view of the Eiffel Tower and more in your No Worries Paris guide.

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Paris manners: no-no’s

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

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Fact: it’s cheaper to stand at the bar, order your coffee and croissant and eat it standing. DO NOT take it to a table and sit down.

Fact: bread comes with most meals. Don’t ask for butter, it will be considered a tartine, a breakfast item.

Fact: food can be rich and filling. Don’t ask for a doggie bag. It’s okay to leave food on your plate.

Fact: Parisians have excellent manners. Always say “bonjour madame, monsier, mademoiselle” and “au revoir madame………” when coming in contact with your fellow man. Smiles not required.

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