Category - France
Paris hotel accommodation is expensive, even in the middle of January. Finding a nice hotel in a good location for a decent price is no mean feat. If you’re planning on visiting Paris, book your accommodation well in advance as prices tend to rise fairly quickly (as I discovered). Location I wanted a hotel within easy reach of all the main...
No visit to Paris is complete without a trip to the Louvre Museum, home of the Mona Lisa and one of the biggest tourist attractions in France, drawing 8 million visitors annually. Now I’m not one for art or spending hours wandering around museums but I have to say it was a pretty enjoyable way of passing a few hours. Top Tip: Entry into the...
I remember seeing this building in my French textbooks in secondary school. It looked odd on paper so I had to take a visit and see it for myself. Up close and personal it looks like an oil refinery in the centre of Parisien street, it stands out as an ugly duckling in an area surrounded by beautiful French architecture. Opened in 1977, it...
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I woke up this morning to a beautiful crisp winters morning with the sound of church bells ringing nearby. There’s something special about taking a walk in the morning and seeing the likes of the Arc de Triomphe & the Champs Elysees right there and with the Eiffel Tower off in the distance. Todays plan is to do all of the typical...