Dog
  • 21
  • Mar
  • 2009

Every year during the months of July and August a children’s fair takes place at the Tuileries gardens. Photographers and children alike love it.Dog at Tuileries

Art Paris 09
  • 21
  • Mar
  • 2009

 ArtParis will be kicking off its eleventh edition, inviting international collectors, professionals and lovers of art from the world of art to visit the more than one hundred galleries which will be brought together under the majestic dome of the Grand Palais through March 23rd, 2009. 

115 of the most dynamic galleries of modern and contemporary art currently active on the international art market they will offer a vast panorama of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries as represented through a range of media from painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, installation and performance.

ArtParis aux Grand Palais, Avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008 Paris, M° Franklin-D-Roosevelt

Brasserie Lipp
  • 21
  • Mar
  • 2009

Most of the classic Paris Brasseries have sold their souls. In the few that survive, the old order is maintained by the waiters and the maîtere d’.

Lipp has its own snobberies. It tend to put tourists upstairs and refuses entry to those wearing shorts. Certain tables of this beautiful Art Nouveau brasserier are more prestigious than others. Upstairs has an elegant sobriety but for some reason you feel distinctly left out. Although it’s perfectly nice upstairs ( Elton John and Roger Moore prefer it). This may be true but everyone, on the Left Bank at least, knows that being led upstairs is social death.

That happenend to one of my colleagues, he was seated upstairs, the waiter was rude ( the couvert was almost trown at their table) and … the food was not upscale : the potatoes had to much water and were cold , the fish was cooked to much. He was so disappointed that he intented to write to Michelin and won’t set a foot in brasserie Lipp for the next ten years.

Brasserie Lipp, 151, Boulevard St Germain, 75006 Paris, tel 01 45 48 53 91, M° St Germain

Avoid queuing for major expositions and museums
  • 12
  • Mar
  • 2009

When you like going to expositions without the waitingline, just take your ticket in advance at the FNAC store. You get a day and an hour to get in and you will be very happy.

Also the entrance for Chateau the Versailles, Disneyland Paris, etc. and tickets for concerts.

Go on line to see more.
FNAC stores are all over Paris.