let's

• Watch the street performers in the Place Igor Stravinsky
• ✔ Run through the Catacombes de Paris (1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, Paris 14e; metro Denfert Rochereau, rer b, 4, 6; 10.00 to 17.00)
• Walk the streets of Montmartre
• Admiring the beautiful decorations on rue Royale and rue Faubourg Saint Honoré
• Pass through the Conciergerie, Paris' oldest prison
• ✔ Spend Sundays in the Marais (Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Place des Vosges, Rue de Turenne, Rue des Rosiers; metro Saint-Paul, 1 or Hotel de Ville, 1, 11)
• ✔ Stroll through Cimetière du Montparnasse (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) and Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, (home to illustrious corpses galore, from Molière to Morrison)
• ✔ Have coffee and pie at le loir dans la Théière
• Sit on a bench in le parc des Buttes Chaumont and read a newspaper
• Skip stones at the Canal Saint Martin on Sundays
• ✔ Slurp an ice-cream at Notre-Dame
• Visit the high ceilings and long halls of Versailles
• ✔ Visit la belle Tour Eiffel, of course

cinema

• Watching Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen movies in Le Champo (51 rue des ecoles 75005)
• 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

museums

• ✔ Get lost at the Louvre | 1 Palais du Louvre, Paris 1er; open daily, 09.00 to 18.00; open until 22.00 on Wednesday and Friday
• 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 | 11 Rue Saint Paul, Paris 4e
• ✔ Visiting the art museums, especially Musée d'Orsay | 62 Rue de Lille, Paris 7e; open Tuesday through Sunday, 09.30 to 17.30; open until 21.30 on Thursday
• Learn the history of Paris at Musée Carnavalet | 23 Rue de Sévigné, Paris 11e; open Tuesday through Sunday, 10.00 to 18.00
• Feel fashionable at Musée de la Mode et du Costume | 10 Avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, Paris 16e; open Tuesday through Sunday, 10.00 to 17.40