This weekend is jammed packed with lots to do by way of cultural, music, street and skate activities for kids and the entire family. What do you think of this round-up? Be Street Weekend an Urban music, clothing, skateboarding and dance festival at La Villette. Saturday 1pm to 10pm Sunday 12pm to 7pm Free Entrance La Grande Halle de la Villette Be Street Weekend Metro: Porte de Pantin Street Art - La Tour Paris 13 The largest showing of street art in Paris in one buildin[...]
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If you're planning on creating a list of things to do in Paris. We've got you covered! Here are the major events happening in Paris for October 2013, includes information on the 'not to be missed' Nuit Blanche, FIAC, where to eat and what to do with the kids. NUIT BLANCHE Nuit Blanche in Paris is an all night cultural event where people stay up and go museum and gallery hopping. It's a once in a year art festival event that is spectacular because the city really stays awake with you.[...]
My son and I spent last Sunday afternoon enjoying a Cappuccino and Babycino, reading magazines, coloring books and playing the cutest little pink piano at Tuck Shop. The Babyccino ladies and gents is a kid styled cappuccino without the coffee with marshmallows! If you have a child you know how limited the options can be when you want to go out. It was so refreshing to see something other than the typical Chocolat Chaud (aka Hot Chocolate) Juices and carbonated drinks. We strolled o[...]
There are many cool coffee shops in Paris now that have borrowed from the American ( in this case Australian) style coffee shops, where you go for great coffee in all it's forms - with accompaniment of cakes, cookies, sandwiches, tarts etc whether it be morning or afternoon. At Koora Boora you won't be rushed to leave for the lunch or dinner crowd like in a typical Parisian Cafe - here you come to enjoy the cafe, yes , but you also come to lounge a bit, look out the window at the Parisian famili[...]
Located behind the beautiful old church of L?Eglise Saint Bernard and walking distance from both metros Barbes and La Chapelle, Cocoboheme is a little surprise space waiting to be discovered, across from a Laundromat and two doors down from a North African deli. Tucked in this quiet corner of the 18th arrondisement is one of the loveliest gift shop slash atelier you?ll find in Paris! Run by husband and wife design team Christian and Catherine, Cocoboheme is a French brand that?s known[...]
For this installation of "the plate": I stopped into Hotel Amour this past Sunday after a brief "tour de force" of the neighborhood Flea market shopping along Rue des Martyrs in the 9th arr. I was in search of a leather sofa (small enough to fit in my apartment, and cheap enough to fit my wallet). Needless to say thrift shopping in one of Paris' most hip and trendy qautiers; this turned out to be not a very successful venture. So after settling on buying a pair of vintage Argentinean made l[...]