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Eye Prefer Paris Tour Photos: Scouts Honor

About three months ago I received an email with a most unusual request: A woman named Catherine Jones from High Point, North Carolina wanted to know if I would take her and her girl scout troop of seven girls aged 15-21 on a tour and also find out details on how I could I become their best friend in Paris. With such a charming and warm request, I enthusiastically said yes, and I knew this would be a fun and rewarding experience. Of course the first thing I said was that in order for a girl scout troop to be my best friend, they would have to bring me at least a few boxes of their amazing cookies.

Since then I told all my friends and even clients about how excited I was about this special tour and couldn’t wait to meet them. In the interim, I thought this would make a wonderful and endearing human-interest story for a magazine or newspaper. One of my former clients from Washington D.C., Gayle Osterberg, who has her own PR and marketing company, was so impressed with my tours, she kindly offered to help me market them whenever I wanted. I emailed her my idea and she agreed it would make a good story. She generously took the time from her busy schedule to write a media alert and even advised me on what publications to target. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive any replies from them but I think I could now send it out.

The magic day arrived last Wednesday. I decided to do two very different tours on Wednesday and Thursday, to give the girls a full experience. On Wednesday we met for my classic Marais tour in front of the St. Paul metro station, and when I arrived they were just finishing spelling out my name on individual pages of a Russian newspaper, with one letter on each page. I already knew I was in for a wonderful ride. It was a gorgeous, warm perfect sunny day. First, I wowed them with the two gorgeous hotel particuler's (former private mansions) and a charming private courtyard in a 17th century building. Next we visited the mid-east gourmet shop Izrael with its intoxicating aromas of exotic, dried & glazed fruit, fresh olives, spices, and large variety of smoked fish.

R-I-C-H-A-R-D

As always, there was a stop at a patisserie and I took them to my favorite one in the Marais and one of the best in Paris, Gerard Mulot. We all indulged a delish sweet treat. Speaking of treats, I ended the tour with a visit to the new Valentino retrospective, as I wanted to show them something about Paris fashion. A stellar show of his greatest creations, worn by Princess Grace, Julia Roberts, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the girls were enamored with the gorgeous gowns and fantasy dresses decorating two floors of the Musee de Decoratifs.

Afterwards they very quickly said goodbye, and I could see they were so inspired by the show that they were chomping at the bit to go clothes shopping. Catherine hauled out a black nylon bag with the cookies, and I said that it would be her fault if I didn’t show up for the tour tomorrow because I would probably be in a sugar coma from eating all five boxes.


Can't Get Enough of These Sweet Treats

Cookie Monster

Thursday morning we met at the Richard Lenoir food market by the Bastille. We were supposed to buy food for a picnic but the purses, scarves, soaps, and other no-food items for sale distracted the girls. At one point, I had to do a shopping intervention and in a stern husband/father like way, warned them that they only had five minutes left to wrap up the shopping. We bought a selection of cheeses, baguettes, country bread, salami, and prosciutto. I was concerned that we didn’t have a knife to cut the cheese, and Catherine gave me this are-you-kidding- me look and pulled out of her pocket an impressive portable knife, saying it’s one of the first things a girls scout is required to have.(I vaguely remembered their motto “Always be prepared”- especially with a knife to cut cheese with on a Parisian picnic).

Shopping Showoffs-Look What I Bought!

We brought our delicious goodies to the Promenade Plantee, a lush three-mile long park built on an abandoned railroad track behind the Bastille Opera house. We admired the beautiful summer blooms and ornate Haussmann style buildings up close. Parking ourselves on two benches, Catherine expertly cut the bread and cheese like a nourishing mother while Audrey doled out the salami and proscuitto. We laughed and carried on about the pleasures of Paris and I asked all the girls what they were doing the rest of the summer. They were leaving the next day after a week in Paris and Switzerland, and I warned them they would suffer the great Paris withdrawal blues when they returned home. I shared with them that even though I loved my life in Paris and had no intentions of moving back to the U.S., they were a supreme example of the unique openness and friendliness Americans have that I miss sometimes. We took our last group photo, one of many, and then I hugged everyone goodbye with a tinge of sadness, as I knew I would miss them.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart Catherine, Audrey, Madeline, Abby, Mary Rose, Stephanie, Kara, Megan, and Jamie for one of the most fun and memorable tours I’ve ever done. And yes, we are definitely BFF’s (their abbreviation for best friends forever).

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone has any leads or knows someone at magazine or newspaper I could pitch this inspiring story to. Catherine also sent me information on how the girls worked their bums off (her words) to raise the money for the trip with fundraising events like cookie sales, yard sales, car washes, spring flower/herb sale, etc., which adds to their heartwarming story.

Our Last Photo-Boo-hoo

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Happy Third Anniversary Eye Prefer Paris

Today marks the third anniversary of Eye Prefer Paris. 298 posts, 130,000 visitors, 432 comments, and 700 subscribers later, I am still happily blogging away. I am inspired everyday by this great city and still have always something to write about.

The last three years have been an amazing journey. What started as a way to share my knowledge and love of Paris has spawned a successful and rewarding tour business, a new career as a professional writer, and best of all, a blog that has a community of loyal readers, who I love and appreciate. Thanks for your comments, your kind, touching and informative emails and to those who boldly took the step to want meet me, who I have become friends with. This has been the most rewarding part of writing the blog.

Below is my first post, dated June 26. Please let me know in the comments section if I have fulfilled on what I said in that post.

About This blog
This blog is about how a native New Yorker dreamed of moving to Paris …… and what he discovered once he got there. Come live this Paris dream vicariously through the eyes(and ears) of Richard Nahem. He writes his blog from his 18th century apartment overlooking tree-lined Place St. Paul in the fashionable Marais district of Paris.

Here are some of my favorite and most popular posts from the last year. (It was so hard to pick just some- it’s like choosing your favorite child).

Fireworks in Rogny les Sept Ecluses

Bastille Day 2007- The Fireman’s Ball

If I Should Lose You Opening

Gentry Lane Burlesque Queen

Galler Chocolate Shop

Eye Prefer Paris Tour Photos

“Eye” Prefer Paris

L’entrecote

Battle of the Bûches (and the bulge)

Absolut Disco

European Film Awards 20th Anniversary

Paris Bloggers Party 2

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Quirky Paris Murals

As you know I like the word quirky and all things inspired by it.
Here are three murals I found that illustrate quirky to its fullest.

The first is a mural off of Etienne Marcel that reminds me a little of a Magritte painting.

The second ones are on the gates of two food shops on the rue Bretagne near rue Charlot in the northern Marais. One is a fromagerie/cheese shop and the other a poissonerie/fish shop.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Parisian of the Month: Pascal Fonquernie

His name: Pascal Fonquernie. His domain: Le Marais

Pascal is the creative brainchild of the site www.paris-marais.com. I think it’s one of the best sites about Paris and has all the right elements - useful information, user friendly/simple to navigate, beautiful images, and most of all, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the Marais.

It was Pascal who gave me my first paid writing job. He sent me an email about three months after I started my blog in 2006,saying how much he liked my site and my writing. He asked me if I was interested in writing some articles for his site and I enthusiastically said yes. My first article was about men’s fashion shops in the Marais (It’s still posted on the site). We have been friends ever since and he has always been very supportive and helpful with promoting my tours and blog.

Pascal started Paris Marais in March 2005. He saw there were no websites that promoted goods and services in the Marais, a neighborhood dense with history and culture, and that most other sites just skimmed the surface with a few common tourist sights. He thought he was more of an insider since he lived in the Marais for over 15 years, and better qualified than other writers who weren’t based in Paris. Pascal is very civic minded, especially in the gay community of Paris, and the official/unofficial gay area of Paris is the Marais. He saw an opportunity to promote gay tourism and again, saw something clearly missing in the marketplace, a site that had extensive information about gay Marais.

Pascal was a successful copywriter and creative director for some top ad agencies in France, specializing in creating campaigns in the luxury and tourism industries. Clients included Air France, British Airways, and Club Med. His writing, marketing and promotional skills were a useful asset to start his business.

Born in Dijon, he told me a fascinating anecdote about his hometown. The drink Kir was named after the mayor of Dijon : “Mr. Kir was a priest, and during WW2 was famous for being part of the Resistance to the German occupation. It was for this reason that for nearly 30 years he was elected the mayor of Dijon, the capital of Cassis (red currant and good burgundy wine). What we know today as Kir was then called “blanc cassis” until he gave it his name. The true Kir is composed of 1/6 crème de cassis from Burgundy, and Bourgogne Aligoté, a basic Burgundy white wine. Anything else is simply not the real thing for someone like me who was born and raised in Burgundy! With fashion and trends came Kir Royal, made of crème de Cassis and Crèmant de Bourgogne, the sparkling wine from Burgundy that tastes like Champagne but cannot rightfully be called so. Now you know the true story of Kir. And another true story – Mr. Kir was a great friend of my godmother and as a priest, it was he who baptized me. So I can say that I’m one of the few French people who were baptized with Kir! “

His childhood was spent in the Pyrenees, Burgundy, French Alps and Monaco. He moved to Paris when he was 16, and spent two years in London before moving back to Paris. He discovered the Marais in the 1980’s when it was first becoming the gay district and was interested in the history and architecture. He moved to rue du Temple in 1987 and has remained in the area ever since.

The comprehensive site is divided into 8 categories: Hotels Paris, Hotels Europe, Shopping Guide, Visit Le Marais, Going Out in Paris, Gay Paris, and Real Estate. Addresses are selected to promote the best in each category with the idea to have a complete marketplace/guide to the Marais as well as France and Europe’s hottest spots with information about everything from knowing where to get your morning croissant to buying a luxury apartment. He is a top correspondent for the Paris tourist office and many travel guides and European newspapers. The site had over 800,000 unique visitors last year and 1,200,000 projected for 2008. His civic mindedness has paid off since he’s had the honor of having the mayor of the 3d arr., Pierre Aidenbaum, sign an editorial welcoming people to the site.

Pascal is also a bit of local television star. He’s starred in 20 short films about the Marais for the Paris television station CAP 24.

Ever the entrepreneur, Pascal is creating additional web pages containing more destinations and expanding into six languages including Russian.

I wish him continued success in promoting my favorite and his neighborhood in Paris.

www.paris-marais.com

Pascal at Home in his Marais Apartment

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Meredith Mullins: Chantilly Fireworks

The Nuit de Feu at the Domaine de Chantilly was full of fire in every form (as well as 10,000 people, 100 pompiers, 25 médecins et 450 gendarmes). Every two years, Chantilly hosts the international fireworks competition. If you think you've seen fireworks before, you really haven't. Here, it's an art—14 mesmerizing minutes for each competitor to "paint the sky." The fireworks burst directly overhead and then surround you, cascading down the sides of the universe like sparkling jewels. You see sea anemones, frosted wigs, psychedelic porcupine quills, comets and lace and glitter ... and whatever else the imagination can conjure up. And at a certain point, even the most dedicated of photographers has to put down the camera and just stare in awe.

Please join Meredith for the première of En Dehors du Temps, her one woman show at W Finance Conseil -Square d'Orléans, 80 rue Taitbout, 75009-Metro: Trinite. The exhibit runs until 30 September. Gallery hours are from 10AM-12PM and 2PM-4h30PM, Monday through Friday.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Restaurant Review:L'Osteria

L'Osteria by Glynis McAndrew

Make note of this address, it is the only means of finding this noted Italian restaurant. There are no fancy menus in the window, no chalk boards displaying the day’s special, not even a name above the door [it is L’Osteria by the way]. The people who know this place keep it a closely guarded secret; indeed with its mud brown painted exterior and slightly dingy net curtains you would not give this place a second glance. UNLESS you know of the delights that come from the magic hands of the chef; then you realize your only chance of a table is by booking and on a Saturday night only if you are lucky, [The French tend to book here week to week].

L’Osteria only has seating for thirty-six people, it is long and narrow and painted a warm orange. The walls are adorned with sketches and hand written endorsements from other patrons, including chefs and film stars! It’s great fun to browse while waiting for your meal to be cooked. The one waiter greets you warmly, shows you to your table and presents, with a flourish, the menu. This is half printed half hand written, to allow for the addition of the freshest produce on the market. [It is also in Italian]. With the waiter working alone, don’t expect McDonalds style speed, sit back enjoy a glass of Chianti whilst deciding what gastronomic delights you are going to choose.

My entrée, after much thought, was bufala pomodora Basilico [fresh tangy mozzarella, tomato, rocket and basil salad) superb! My dining partner went for the prosciutto, this plate of beautifully draped, aged, wafer thin ham looked so good I could not resist sneaking a forkful…. The 20euro starter was worth every cent, my mom used to say “you get what you pay for” how right on this occasion. I could also have chosen from, fresh spider crab – out of shell – served on a bed of salad leaves, calamari or salad parmesan.

For the main course, both David [above mentioned dining partner] and I chose risotto homard. After a short wait this plate of steaming perfection arrived, it was golden from the saffron, creamy, with a hint of parmesan, flakes of lobster ran through it and a small lobster tail crowned the whole thing off. A work of art worth every mouthful.

Other choices on the main course menu included; gnocchi with fresh truffle and pappardelle homard au crabe.

By now my skirt was starting to nip around the waist but how could I leave without first doing justice to pudding. Not a large choice but I went for a fairly light panacotta with fresh raspberry coulis. The coulis was sharp and fresh a beautiful foil for the creamy panacotta. David chose Italian classic tiramisu; the generous portion was a rainbow of flavour, coffee, thick cream and alcohol [How do I know? Because of course I had to have a taste].

We drank, of course, Italian wine, a superb bottle of Chianti – Badio a Coltibuono. The wine list is extensively Italian but their robust flavours compliment the food.

The total cost of the meal for two people was 171euros.

This little Italian restaurant, that does not flaunt its presence, was full to capacity all evening. Passing trade is not an option here, people return again and again; they are greeted by first name and a hearty hug, they are friends. The traditional extended Italian family is alive and well and can be found on rue de Sevigne. To be part of this experience, remember to reserve.

10 Rue De Sevigne
Metro: St. Paul
Tel 01 42713708
Closed Sunday & Monday
Lunch 12pm – 2.30pm , Dinner from 7pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Door of the Month: 6 rue Mandar

I discovered this Dijon mustard with a hint of green lacquered door while walking through the first arr., near Les Halles, with my former tour clients, now friends, Barbara Major and Paul Kaehler.

Rue Mandar is off the rue Montorgueil, one of the liveliest and best-known food streets in Paris. We passed an old-fashioned neighborhood hardware shop and in the window I spotted a simple Melita drip coffee pot, the kind with the filter on top where you pour the water through. After three years of having a N’Espresso machine and dealing with the inconvenience of always replacing the pods, I was craving good ol’ drip coffee. Barbara said, “I love hardware shops” so we went in. I happily picked out my coffee pot and Barbara practically grabbed it out of my hand and insisted on buying it for me as a gift. I was so touched by her generous gesture. I now think of Barbara every day when I make my morning brew.

We toured the rest of the neighborhood, finding a new, very tasty chocolate shop, perused the racks of some of the fashion shops on Etienne Marcel, and went to the famous kitchenware shop A. Simon.

I was so inspired by how rich the area was with things to see and experience, I decided to make it a tour destination on my Eye Prefer Paris Tours. I would love to show you this colorful neighborhood that many times is overlooked or unknown to visitors. Just ask for the Etienne Marcel/rue Montorgueil tour.

6 rue Mandar, 2nd arr
Metro: Etienne Marcel, Les Halles

I’d like to thank my good friend Elizabeth Topper, for the touching and heart felt post on her blog www.apreslebeep.blogspot.com about my tours and me. Elizabeth is a very talented and successful textile designer who lives in Los Angeles and Paris. We met last year when she emailed me saying how impressed she was with my blog and wanted to meet me while she was here. We became fast and furious friends (as she said on her post) and I am delighted she is here for the summer.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

SundaysFridays with Polly & Richard: Printemps

I cannot tell a lie (except about my age): we had our outing this month on Friday instead of Sunday. I am booked with tours the next three Sundays in June.

I read that Printemps was having a special event this month called Beaute Rare and had a rooftop spa that was giving free 15-minute massages. As you know, I am never one to pass up an opportunity for a free massage, so I called Polly and before I even finished the sentence “ They’re giving free, …” she resoundingly said “YES! Let’s do it! It’s just what I need”.

We decided to meet right at 12PM when they opened, so we could be the first ones and not have to wait. I called Polly from my cell at 12:05 to tell her I was in front of the store and would be up in 5 minutes. I climbed 9 escalators only to find out I was in the wrong building and after much running, cursing, and panting to find the right rooftop, I found Polly 20 minutes later patiently waiting.

The Terrake spa, set in a makeshift bamboo garden with luscious ferns, and potted palms, looked so inviting and serene. We told the woman at the desk we were there for the free massage and with a look of “ you are so naïve, you and about another 5,000 suckers want one too”, said they were fully booked for all massages including the ones you pay for until June 21, when the spa closed. We were crushed. What a bust. My massage hungry body, which was screaming to be rubbed after my running, cursing, and panting experience, was trés disappointed. We pouted like five-year-old children being told they were out of their favorite ice cream flavor. Just to be polite, she asked if we wanted to put our names and phone numbers on the waiting list and they would call if they had cancellations. Yeah, right! Like someone would give up a free massage. Between you and me, the odds of us winning the 30
million euro lottery are much greater.





We regrouped and decided to have an early lunch. It was a beautiful, crisp day with dramatic clouds and sun covering the sky. The big secret about Printemps rooftop is it has one of the best 360-degree views of Paris and the Opera, Madeleine, Eiffel Tower, and Sacre Coeur looked majestic from the expansive view. It was also great to see the detailing of the turrets and towers of Printemps and Galeries Lafayette close up. We snapped away our cameras for a few minutes and decided on lunch at the le Deli-cieux, a white modern self serve style restaurant. The menu looked promising and I ordered chicken with Mascarpone whipped potatoes and Polly, grilled salmon with haricot verts. Once we were served, we realized it was a dressed up school cafeteria and the food had all the taste of hospital food. On top of it, it was way overpriced. My 14-euro chicken was plain and the Mascarpone nowhere to be tasted and Polly’s salmon was greasy and the haricot verts drowned in butter. Thank god the great view and engaging conversation distracted us. Bust # 2!

After trying to digest the poor excuse of a meal, Polly said she immediately needed a coffee to cut the grease. She asked if I had ever been to the Brasserie on the sixth floor and I said I hadn’t. Polly whisked me downstairs and said I had to experience it once in this lifetime. Before me was a sprawling, dramatic multi-colored dome ceiling with a huge pink ball suspended from it. We sat on some cool, Jetson-style gray leather lounge chairs and sipped our coffee, taking in the colors and décor of this fabulous room. I found out another well kept secret about Printemps: they serve Angelina’s hot chocolate. Now you have a much chicer place to indulge in the world’s most decadent hot chocolate with a great view to boot.

My Week in Paris

I was surfing the net a few weeks ago and stumbled upon an intriguing website, www.myweekin.net. It’s a new site that lets you create your own one, two, or three day customized online itinerary of Paris, using their list of suggested restaurants, shops, sights, and accommodations. What attracted me immediately was the whimsical illustration of a tall, chic woman with a smile on her face holding a bunch of shopping bags with designer labels. I could tell from that, the owner of the site had a sense of style and good taste.

I thought it would be a good idea to have my tours listed on the site and emailed the owner. Her name is Ali Wallace and she sent me a warm reply wanting to meet to discuss the possibility. Ali is from Australia and recently relocated to Tours, a small city in the French countryside about two hours from Paris, with her husband and family. We met at a café in the Marais and Ali was ever the stereotypical Australian, charming and delightful. She had a strong background in marketing and publicity, having her own boutique agency for over 20 years and her client list included IBM, Walt Disney, and Microsoft. I was impressed with the seven page customized presentation she prepared with Eye Prefer Paris on the cover, explaining her company and strategy for the site.

Ali had researched all of the top travel and hotel websites and found what was missing was a comprehensive website combining hotels, spas, restaurants, shops, and attractions. Her idea was to have a one stop-shopping site where you can store things in a “shopping basket” and printout your agenda for your trip. Her audience is sophisticated travelers who are who want to know about the latest and the greatest insider info. Right now the site is focusing on four cities/areas: Paris, London, Edinburgh, and the Loire Valley, with expansion to other places in the near future. Other features of the site include e-postcards created by artists and photographers especially for the site, online concierge, and editorial articles.

I wish Ali the best of luck and I think she will do very well with this smart concept.

www.myweekin.net

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

A Little Bit of Country in the City

My friend, the very talented photographer Katrin Baumann, had a birthday party for one of her close friends at her atelier last Saturday night. I had been there only once a few years ago and never noticed the special courtyard to her studio. Located in Montmartre on rue Eugene Carriere, a quiet street off the Lamarck Caulaincourt metro, it’s more of a long alleyway than a courtyard that leads to Katrin’s atelier.

There are these wonderful murals with country scenes and the blue doors on them are so lifelike you would swear they were real. One of them had a bicycle and potted geraniums next to it and I felt like it was a little piece of Provence in the middle of Paris. It was a crisp night at about 9PM when I took the photos and the famed Paris light bathed the courtyard.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com