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Paris Plage 2011
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | About Paris, Main events | No Comments
Every summer in Paris, the banks of the Seine are crowded! For this 10th edition, the town hall worked twice as hard so that Paris is going to be turned into a real beach resort! There will be 10 times more sand than last year to create the necessary dunes.
During one month, from July 21st to August 21st people who can’t afford going on holidays will have a beach to rest! Indeed Paris Plages offers a lot of entertainments for everyone: cultural activities, sports and nautical activities.
On the voie Georges Pompidou (from quai du Louvre to the Bridge d’Arcole) you will see a 1 km beach! Moreover, around the Basin of la Villette, parisiens and tourists will find: pool, petanque game (famous French game of boules), dance and taichi lessons etc.
New activities for 2011: concerts, tales and photo contest.
Paris Plages will be opened everyday from 8 am to 12 am. Enjoy a relaxing moment, lying on a deck chair, under a palm!
Find an hotel in Paris:
- Hôtel Best Western Premier Louvre Saint Honoré****
- Hôtel Best Western Ducs de Bourgogne****
- Hôtel Best Western France Europe***
Summer sales 2011
Friday, June 24th, 2011 | Main events | No Comments
Only a few days left before the beginning of the summer sales in Paris! From June 22nd at 8am to July 26th at midnight, clients will clean out the stores to find the the fashion “Must-Have” of the summer. Indeed, since 2008, the summer sales have become an essential rendezvous before summer holidays, every last Wednesday of June.
Hence, Wednesday morning at 8am, Daphné Bürki, an editorial from the French magazine Be, will kick off the sales at the Galerie Lafayette Haussmann! She will welcome the first clients with a collector bag “Be fête les soldes aux Galeries Lafayette” (Let’s celebrate sales with Be at Galerie Lafayette) and “petits fours”.
Prices will be displayed with 30-50% discount on a wide selection of every kind of products. Products from the brand “Galerie Lafayette” will even have a 60% discount!
If you’ve been dreaming of a new pair of shoes or a new bag for the last six months, don’t have qualms anymore! Rush into the stores to find your size and the best products before they’re sold out! Alternatively, if you prefer to avoid the general excitation and the long checkout lines, you can order everything you want on the internet. Lots of online shops provide interesting discounts for the sales.
Here are some unmissable products for the summer:
- Colors: Flashy colors such as coral, turquoise and fuchsia.
- Materials: lace, fishnet, cotton, deerskin.
- Patterns: Vichy, Liberty, flowers, panther, Python, dots and scratches.
- Shapes: combination, shorts, long skirts and wide pants.
- Details: ropes, fringes, feathers, pleated, English embroidery, gildings and glitters. The butterfly will be everywhere!
Get ready, sales are coming!
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The Paris Jazz Festival
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 | Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
You are on holiday in Paris this summer, and looking for some entertainment? To make the most of the weather and take your mind off things, go to the Bois de Vincennes to the east of Paris. This big park in the English landscape manner, organizes annually a summer jazz festival.
Every week-end from June 11th to July 31st, jazz music is king at the Parc Floral de Paris – Vincennes. During this 18th edition of “Paris Jazz Festival”, the concerts presented on the main stage will develop a wealth of stylistic themes: every week-end, famous jazz bands will play a concert for you, and introduce you to various sounds from the United States, Europe, Middle East or Africa. Come listen to “le Jazz au cirque”, which combines music with acrobatics or “Latin Jazz” who will captivate you with its sounds and rhythms from the Carribean. If you like the piano, don’t miss the opening concert “Pianissimo!” a tribute to the royal instrument!
During this event, the Park will be turn into a huge showroom where works of art will be exhibited. Some animations will also be organized in the open air. With family or friends, let’s have a good time listening to jazz music!
Find an hotel in Paris Vincennes:
Hotel Best Western Saint Louis***
Cranach and his time, at the Musee du Luxembourg
Friday, February 11th, 2011 | Main events | No Comments
After several months of work, the Luxembourg Museum has finally reopened its doors! Since February 9, the museum new spaces designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (the ones who recently designed the Pompidou Centre in Metz), is featuring a major exhibition about Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Little known to the French public, this great painter of the Germanic Renaissance has actually deeply marked the history of art by his very personal manner: subtile portaits, nudes and landscapes richly detailed, and often tinged with religious symbolism.
But if his name reminds you something, it’s also because Cranach made headlines this winter! An exceptional appeal for donations has been actually launched in past few months by the Louvre Museum in order to raise the lacking million euros to acquire this masterpiece. › Continue reading
Christmas in Paris : 2010 most beautiful lights and windows displays
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 | Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
If there is ever a magical moment to visit Paris, it’s during the Christmas period! When the cold seizes the city and the days are getting shorter, Paris pulls all the stops out to draw our attention, adorning itself with thousands of lights.
If you are visiting Paris this winter, you’ll enjoy many family activities organized in town: Concorde’s Great Wheel, the rink at the Hotel de Ville or Paris numerous Christmas markets are perfectly suited to begin your Xmas shopping or to drink a glass of mulled wine perfumed with cinnamon … There are many Christmas markets in the city: at Nation, Abbesses, Trocadero, La Defense, on the Champs Elysees or near the Gare de l’Est, where you’ll find a traditional Alsatian Christmas market.
But if Christmas lights are nice on the Champs Elysees, don’t miss the Grand Boulevards! Have a walk on the boulevard Haussmann, you will enjoy the department stores wonderful Christmas window displays: a must!
As for me, the Printemps offers the most beautiful window displays, with decors designed by Valentino, Yves Sainr Laurent, Nina Ricci or Alexander McQueen on the theme “Christmas at the Castle” (Noël au Château). There come ball gowns, furs and hunting trophies surprisingly together, like in a country parody of Coppola’s movie Marie-Antoinette scene. Your children will enjoy the windows showing Alber Elbaz’ little black and white people, in the purest tradition of animated displays. › Continue reading
