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Tea and Dessert in Paris

You have been woken up by pigeons cooing outside your window, the street cleaning truck is humming in the distance, and the smell of coffee is emanating from the apartment next door.  A slow stroll through a cobblestoned street by Saint Germain des Pres lets you experience the magic of Paris waking up.  Minutes later you are slowly sipping coffee at Les Deux Magots. You sit on one of the ivory and green chairs and watch the world go by.  You take your time.  Later you will spent the morning marveling at the Water Lilies at Musee de L'Orangerie and follow that with a walk through the Tuileries Garden.  You sit on one of the green metal chairs by the large pond or walk under the hundreds of trees while small children scoot by on their four-wheelers.  Maybe you grab a sandwich from a park vendor, or skip lunch altogether since you will most definitely overindulge at dinner.  So, what to do now? You feel like a snack, but nothing too filling.   How a...

Shopping in Paris, Part One

Paris, a fashion capital, is well known as a shopping paradise which offers something for everyone.  There is an abundance of super high-end boutiques and haute couture stores, but Paris also offers plenty of affordable, more down-to-earth choices. For the very high-end stores like Dior,  Chanel, YSL, Gucci and such, Avenue Montaigne is the place to shop, and follow it with a lunch at Plaza Athenee.  Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore and its second part, rue Saint Honore, are dotted with one beautiful shop after another; a mix of reasonable priced and expensive, Hermes #24, Chanel #21, Goyard #233, Tara Jarmon #400,  Cotelac #284, and Comptoir des Cotoniers #342. A few notes about shopping in Paris.  It's always good to make an effort to greet the salesperson in French, they will try to help out even if their English is not great. I find that a lot of the department stores and small boutiques for that matter, are not air conditioned.  They can occasionally ...