- 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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