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| France Travel Resources: Our Preferred Partners |
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Auto Europe
Auto Europe is a one-stop source for great rates on auto rental, airfares, airport transfers, hotels, even cell phone rental in France, and all over Europe.
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Call In Europe
 Call In Europe has the best, most flexible deals on cell phone rentals in France and in the rest of Europe. Recommended by France Magazine and Maison de la France, this company has excellent prices and customer service. Rent or buy. Check them out and order through this link.
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Glen Cooper's Paris Apartment Rentals & Buyer Services
Glen Cooper renovates and carefully manages his Paris apartments in all the best locations. Great variety, well located, well priced. Glen can help you with a rental or with purchasing your dream pied a terre in Paris.
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Learning French?
This site has excellent free educational resources, including "A Moi Paris", an interactive teaching guide developed by Boston area French Teacher Camille Chevalier. Also is the site to order Une Semaine a Paris, A Traveler's Guide With a Novel Twist co-authored by Camille Chevalier and Sally Peabody.
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Parisby.com
Parisby.com is part of a worldwide hotel booking service. Check out their good selections and prices...and reserve your Paris hotel now!
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Great Eats and Great Sleeps In Paris
Great Eats and Great Sleeps are two excellent series by Sandra Gustafson. Gustafson has researched eating and sleeping affordably and well in Paris (and other cities) for years and her books are tops on my good resources lists.
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ChoiceApart Prime Paris Apartment Rentals
Choiceapart is a top quality apartment rental service for Paris and also London, Venice, Florence and Barcelona. Beautiful studios up through 3 bedroom apartments in all the best neighborhoods for your European travels. Your Great Days in Paris posts Paris travel articles on the ChoiceApart site. An excellent resource!
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| Sample publications I love and use constantly
when visiting Paris: |
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Michelin Paris Plan: detailed maps of neighborhoods by arrondissement. Including every street, passage and staircase, all cultural sites, churches, and metro stops, this is an indispensable tool for a Paris visit. Small format fits in pocket or purse relatively easily. |
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Take Paris Personally, Your Guide to Discovering Quintessential Paris by Sally Peabody. Second Edition. Updated and Expanded. This engaging and useful e-guide will get you to YOUR best in Paris. You will feel like a savvy insider whether its your first or fifth trip to Paris. Order on www.yourgreatdaysinparis.com 116 pages in PDF format. |
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Walking Paris: by Gilles Desmons. This is an excellent book of Paris Walks that reaches well beyond the usual. Thirty walks are featured which really get you off the beaten path, as well as through the perennially favorite quartiers. Each itinerary includes excellent historic, literary, and artistic references to help you envision the past, and present, of the neighborhoods you are exploring. |
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Paris In a Basket. This book is a little large to take on a trip but is a gorgeous work focusing on the abundance of the marche volants, covered markets, and permanent market streets across Paris. This beautifully photographed book includes excellent market recipes, addresses, and schedules for all the markets. |
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Little Known Museums in and Around Paris: by Rachel Kaplan. This beautifully photographed and well-referenced guide will truly help you to find the smaller treasures all over, and around, Paris. Many are accessible for free with the Carte de Musees and Monuments. Kaplan has also published Little Known Museums volumes on London, Berlin and Rome. And, don't forget to order her Best Buys to French Chic via www.frenchlinks.com
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FRANCE MAGAZINE FRANCE magazine is a glossy monthly full of informative articles about travel throughout France. Excellent real estate and rental section too. www.francemagazine.com
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Bonjour Paris The largest English language website for those who love Paris. Weekly e-newsletters and great stories about all aspects of Paris, often with features on other regions of France too. Subscribe for a weekly 'Premium' e-newsletter or for a free, less detailed e-newsletter. www.BonjourParis.com
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik. An delightful and insightful account of this writer's four year sojourn in Paris with his family. Keenly observed cultural reflections and understandings.
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Paris: Capital of the World: by Patrice Higgonet. This masterful social history of Paris explores the realities, myths, and phantagorisms that have evolved around and about Paris through the centuries. An excellent and informative book.
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The Flaneur by Edmund White. An excellent read by this long-time Paris resident and writer, devoted to the art of "flaneuring"... walking Paris with no apparent destination but with a keenly observing eye.
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
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We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter.
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