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

02 Saturday Feb 2013

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PalaisDeChaillot

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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Mainstreaming macarons the McDonalds way

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Laudrée and Pierre Herme move over. The most coveted cookies in Paris have entered the fastfood marketplace. Are they as delicate and crisp and colorful? Are there a variety of flavors (violet, pistachio, white truffle)? Are they packaged in designer pastel boxes or bags? Answer: no, no, and no.

macaronParisPros: they are half-price compared to their aristocratic version, their calorie count is low, they fill in for a sweet dessert if you’re just stopping in for a McCafé cappuccino. McDonalds also has clean free toilettes. You can also buy macarons in bakeries and supermarket such as Monprix. Cupcakes are so “over”, you compare the two.

Paris Fashion Week Trendsetters: femme frippery to letting fly the frou

25 Friday Jan 2013

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Spring 2013, a potpourri of styles on the runways: sheer plaids, soft florals, ruffles, pink and blue, soft pink and gold, metallic threading, grunge, fur, denim, tie-dye, checkerboard, honeycomb, sweet collars, black gauze, red leather, lace, knee-length skirts and dresses (finally), a solar panel runway, tweeds, boucles, aubergine, pretty pink, violet, stripy platform sandals, red shiny shoes, oversized pearls, tassels, bows, voluminous shapes. Something for everyone, anything goes? Room for you to put together your own sense of style. Be different, it’s all about attitude and carrying off what you wear proudly even if it’s nothing at all.

Add to that street fashion trends you’ll pick up on while strutting your stuff on your Paris outings guided by the “No Worries Paris” guidebook. Hipsters, minimalists, bohos, fashionistas, visitors from around the world: enjoy the show.

A visit to Paris’s “Sinister Way”

21 Monday Jan 2013

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Rue Roquette Paris

From the pages of the No Worries Paris guidebook: “The restaurants and bistros amplify on Rue de la Roquette. But in the 17C, Roquette was but a rural road leading to the large domain of a convent of the same name—which derives from a pale yellow flower, “the rocket,” that thrived in the rubble beside the road. At the time of the Revolution and for a century thereafter, Roquette was known as the “Sinister Way,” or “Sorrowful Road.” It connected the prison at Bastille to the new cemetery at Pere Lachaise, passing two other prisons, both a men’s and women’s. Funerals and bawdy public executions by guillotine were frequent. To your right as you reach the Roquette, at #76, is Theatre de La Bastille, where the quarter’s new vibe is apparent in dance and drama performances that warp and create trends.”

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