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  • Dance around my hotel room to the song La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf
  • Having croissants and steaming cafe au lait in bed for breakfast
  • Finally speaking in French
  • Watching the street performers in the Place Igor Stravinsky
  • Taking photographs of the great architecture
  • Listening to music by Juliette Gréco, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Thomas Dutronc, Yann Tiersen, etc. whilst I walk the streets of Montmartre
  • Visiting the museums and art conventions, especially Musee de la Poupee and Musée d'Orsay
  • Having picnic with baguette and wine at the Siene
  • Sous le ciel de Paris s'envole une chanson hmm hmm / Elle est née d'aujourd'hui dans le cœur d'un garçon / Sous le ciel de Paris marchent des amoureux hmm hmm / Leur bonheur se construit sur un air fait pour eux
  • Wine, crackers, foie gras, petit fours, croissants, quische, cakes
  • Toys at Les Galleries Lafayettes
  • Admiring the beautiful decorations on rue Royale and rue Faubourg Saint Honoré
  • Attend Fête de la Musique
  • Visit Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie, a museum filled with displays of optical illusions, objects that float on thin air, and a box for sawing people in half
  • Catch a film at La Cinémathèque Française, which was a meeting place for Nouvelle Vague directors of the 1950s and 60s such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer
  • Wearing capes and tights and wool because it's okay to overdress
  • Spend spring in the country garden and wait for the burgeoning of the cherry blossom trees
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Go to the Cimetière du Montparnasse and take an atmospheric stroll amid the headstones of famous writers: the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are buried side by side, and Baudelaire, Beckett and Guy de Maupassant can also be found beneath the trees
  • Have coffee and pie at Le loir dans la Theihere
  • Sit on a bench in le parc des Buttes Chaumont and read a newspaper

Montmartre in general

  • Take pictures at the countryside around Paris
  • Visit Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris's most famous cemetery, which provides a home to illustrious corpses galore, from Molière to Morrison
  • Watch ballet or opera in Theatre du Chatelet
  • Showcase my vintage dress while walking through Versailles along with a raspberry mille feuilles on a sunny Sunday afternoon
  • Skip stones at the Canal Saint Martin
  • Slurp an ice-cream at Notre-Dame
  • Visit the high ceilings and long halls of Versailles
  • Visit the New Morning, which embraces chanson, blues and world music
  • Go to Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and get as much books as I can
  • Watching Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen movies in Le Champo
  • Get lost at the Louvre
  • Visit la belle Tour Eiffel, of course. Take a baguette, pâté and a bottle of red wine to the grassy area beneath the tower for an impromptu picnic
nov 5 2011 ∞
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