Tag: Walks

The Best Of Paris for the Festive Season

The Festive Season is in full swing in Paris even if the weather is more spring-like than winter and even if the Christmas Markets and the Department Stores are less crowded than usual due to 13 November attacks. Our city is so magical with its Christmas lights and shop windows that strolling in Paris streets at night at that time of the year is just a delight.

Top Ten Christmas lights and shop windows

Here is my Top ten of the most exceptional Christmas lights not to be missed in Paris:

1. The Avenue Montaigne, so beautiful and showing this year again the wonderful bottle of perfume ‘J’adore’ in front of Dior!

Festive Season - Paris - The Avenue Montaigne
Festive Season – Paris – The Avenue Montaigne
Festive Season-Paris-A building Avenue Montaigne
Festive Season – Paris – A building Avenue Montaigne
Festive Season - Paris - Dior Avenue Montaigne
Festive Season – Paris – Dior Avenue Montaigne

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The Best Of Paris for Christmas: A Walk in the Passages Couverts

I like to have a walk in the Passages Couverts in Paris. Those galleries date from the beginning of the 19th century and were in a way the precursors to our modern shopping malls. Most of them have beautiful glass roofs and are true architectural gems. My favourite walk starts from the metro station Le Peletier and ends four metro stations further south on metro line 7 at Palais Royal. It enables to discover four of the main Passages Couverts, all different and each having a very special character. This walk is even more magic during Christmas time as the galleries are all decorated with tinsel and fairy lights. You can choose a rainy day as the galleries are covered; but keep your coat as they are not heated at all!

The Passage Verdeau: The place for old books and drawings
Passages Couverts Paris-Passage Verdeau
Passages Couverts Paris-Passage Verdeau

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La Petite Ceinture du 15e: A Short Unsual Walk in Paris!

La Petite Ceinture du 15e is a 1.3 kilometre green walk in the south of 15th arrondissement in Paris between the rue Olivier de Serres westerly and the Place Balard easterly. This pedestrian lane opened in 2013 and has been fitted out along the line of the ‘Petite Ceinture’, a former railway built around Paris but unused since the seventies. This walk should be extended in the future so as to link by a greenway the two main parks of the arrondissement, the Parc André Citroën in the west and the Parc Georges Brassens in the east.

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