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Shopping in Paris
Hands up who would like to shop in the fashion capital of the world? Paris happens to be one of the most attractive cities and one that could make your credit card tremble with fear! Despite Paris’ high prices, the quality of its products along with the variety and originality make them totally irresistible. There are fortunately stores and boutiques to fit all budgets in Paris.
Most Parisian shops and establishments are open from Monday to Saturday 10:00-20:00 but the more traditional Paris shops you will usually find taking a break between 12:00 and 15:00 pm.
So where do we choose to go on a day’s shopping in this wonderful city? We could start our shopping spree with the famous
Lafayette Galleries and stroll around or even go to Haute-Couture boutiques – but have your credit ready though! Paris even has the traditional street markets like Márches aux puces which just happens to be one of the largest in the world. Paris department stores are great places to stroll around if you have both time and money. In the Haussmann Boulevard you’ll stumble upon two shopping centres: the Lafayette Galleries and the Primtemps shopping centre. Here is where you’ll find shoes, jewellery and prêt-à-porter along with more expensive lines amongst other fine goods. For the foodies among us Lafayette Gourmet has a wine store with around 1800 bottles of the finest wines in the world. You’ll also find the traditional delicatessen stores showing off their wares. These galleries receive more than 20 million visitors per year from all over the world. It is also the largest commercial area in the western world and the European department store with the largest number of shops.
Paris street markets are great fun and a sight to see. One of the largest flea markets in the world the Márches aux puces de Saint-Ouen has more than 3000 market stalls in seven hectares of space. You will find this little gem open from 10:00am to 18:00pm Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. This particular market enjoys around 120,000 visits from both Parisians and tourists alike – daily! You will also find many things here including second hand clothing, books and antiques along with shoes,
collectables, music and pictures. It’s worth mentioning two other Parisian markets; Aligre Market and the Conventio Market which are quite important and well worth a look, too.
You will find some of the best boutiques and shops on Montaigne Avenue which is synonymous with elegance, luxury and distinction. Some of Paris’ best known designers have their shops here and you’ll find it stretching from the river Seine right till the Champs Elysees. Other things noteworthy of this famous Avenue are the fine restaurants, beautiful cafés and hotels of this wonderful city.
So, what are you waiting for? Get that credit card out, brush off the dust and head for Paris. It will be the trip of a lifetime.
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Stackable Porcelain Cappuccino Cup & Saucer 9 Pc Set This 9 piece Porcelain cappuccino cup and saucer set has a stylish chrome wire rack for space saving storage. Classy and functional, the easy going style of this set is easily paired with other patterns and colors. Although it is elegant enough for special occasions, this set is still sturdy enough to use every day…. |
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Red Hot & Blue: Cole Porter Tribute $5.44 There’s a long tradition of artists banding together for a noble cause, but–needless to say–good intentions are no guarantee of good art. Fortunately, the twain do meet and the project even succeeds with creative flair in this compilation. It kicked off the Red Hot AIDS Benefit series back in 1990 and in fact launched its own sort of minigenre, including theme albums devoted to George Gershwin a… |
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Blossom Dearie $4.76 That’s her real name and this is her real voice, as fresh and sweet as the darling buds of May–but never cloying or precious. Fittingly, there’s a bright, springtime theme running through this record, which includes “It Might as Well Be Spring,” “A Fine Spring Morning,” and the CD bonus track “They Say It’s Spring.” And since Ms. Dearie had recently returned from a few years in France in 1… |
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Leonin, Perotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral $4.65 … |
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Remembrance of Things Paris: $15.71 For information on the author Ruth Reichl click here. For sixty years, the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, we are in a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German Occupation. We watch the city re-create itself, the cafes fill with people drinking cafe au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes the triumphant return of three-star cuisine. The next new thing is born and nouvelle cuisine sweeps through a newly chic and modern city. It is all here; the old-time bourgeois dinners, the taste-makers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs. Paris is spread before us, in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the fine art of living. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the world’s most wonderful city. Remembrance of Things Paris is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner. Contributors Include: Samuel Chamberlain, Louis Diat, Naomi Barry, Joseph Weichsberg, Judith and Evan Jones, Don Dresden, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Richard Sax, Catherine Reynolds, and many others. |
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