France & Carnivals
February 2012
13 posts
Dr. House will give a concert in Paris this summer
Hugh Laurie, better known as Dr. House, opens himself from a new side - as a blues performer. His debut album «Let them talk» was released in March 2011, and only in France over 100,000 copies had been sold.
Lady Gaga in Paris
According to rumors, the singer, contending for Madonna’s title of the queen of pop music, will come to Paris and other European cities with a new show in October and November. The exact dates will be announced in August.
Rent Paris 1-bedroom apartment | Galeries Lafayette
Place de Greve
Place de Greve is the oldest square in Paris and along with Place de la Bastille the most famous. Its present name - the Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville.
The main symbol of Paris - Eiffel Tower
Guy de Maupassant liked to have lunch on the first level of the Eiffel Tower. Just there, where now the famous restaurant “Jules Verne” is situated. Those people who knew how the French writer did not like the tower, asked him; “why do you go here?” Maupassant answered: “This is the only place in the whole enormous Paris, where you don’t see it!”
The Eiffel Tower is not liked by all the French. But, fortunately, many people did not support this Maupassant’s opinion.
Today it has become the main symbol of Paris, eclipsing even the Louvre and Versailles. It really can be clearly seen from the terraces of legendary Parisian cafes, historic streets, apartments’ windows. And it is impossible to imagine the French capital without the Eiffel Tower. Especially in the evenings, when its illumination charms magically.
Grevin Museum in Paris
As in all times people wanted to know about famous people (today we call them “celebrity”) as much as possible. It was the reason why Mr. Meyer had decided to establish a museum of wax figures - exact copies of famous persons. His faithful partner and assistant was a well-known painter, sculptor and caricaturist Alfred Grevin. He made great efforts to create exposure, what for, in fact, the museum had got his name. The museum was opened in June 1882 when the first visitors had come to the depository of wax people.
Parisian hotels are still going up
2% of this – inflation. The cost of services in European hotels rises by such amount every year approximately.
The rest - a result of lack of accommodation for guests of the French capital in Parisian hotels. And since 2003 their number is only increasing - not only from countries, traditionally “supplying” thousands of tourists to Paris. In recent years the citizens of Spain, Russia, Brazil and Mexico discover France in quantity.
That’s why, as experts say, prices in hotels of any star level will rise. Hoteliers do not have time to satisfy trivial demand.
Fishing near Paris
Your assistant in this matter will be the company Les Etangs de l’Abbaye (Abbey Lakes), founded by fishing amateurs - Harlé d’Ophove family.
Patisserie La Duree in Paris
The patisserie (or rather, it was a bakery firstly) La Duree was founded in 1862 by Louis Ernest Laduree on rue Royale between the Church of Madeleine and the Place de la Concorde. Only nine years later a bakery passed into a patisserie. The author of interior decorations was Jules Chéret, who also created the official logo — angel.
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Paris apartments - hotels for sweethearts
Hotels like train stations in the novels, including Parisian, symbolize near changes, ttransiency of plans, feelings and lives, insecurity of the here and now, unpredictability of the future. That’s why a hotel room - even the most luxurious - is not suitable for a journey with your beloved person to the City of Love. You need a place where you will be only the two of you. Where nobody will disturb you by another’s problems or needless and inopportune care. Where drunken romantic neighbors will not disturb your privacy with their hoarse serenades and a chambermaid would not suddenly burst into your piece of the paradise with a vacuum cleaner.
Food shopping in Paris
During many decades Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations not only in Europe, but, perhaps, in the world. Moreover, many tourists prefer to rent apartment in Paris than to stay at hotels. Naturally, in this case the question of “food” is more than actual, because owners of the apartments do not offer their tenants even breakfast. For this reason we would like to say on the Parisian food stores in this material.
What about the big supermarkets, so minimum one of them is in every administrative district of Paris (there are 20 of them). Small specialized stores are on almost every street of the city. Among them you will find «boulangerie» – real Parisian bakery with a wide selection of rolls and baguettes, «patisserie» – sweetshops with surprisingly delicious desserts and pastries, «charcuterie» – stores of meat delicacies, «boucherie» – butcher shops, and, of course, «fromagerie»- the famous French cheese shops.
