Paris in Spring

This springtime sees the reblooming of some of Paris’s sweetest terraces, as well as garden cafés and restaurants within the city’s most scenic museums. The following eateries are feasts for all the senses; go for the delicious food, stay for the soul-satisfying settings. Place Dauphine Several restaurants on this gorgeous Parisian square extend their terraces […]

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The official flower of March is the daffodil, and while the cheery yellow bloom does appear in Paris’s gardens and florists throughout this first month of spring, there’s another flower that seems to capture the whimsical spirit of an early Parisian springtime so much more perfectly: a pink magnolia. The magnolia is named after French […]

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So you’ve got your ticket to the world’s most beautiful city. Now the packing pressure is on so that you can dress the part! Read on for some spring suitcase advice … Despite the suggestion made in the beloved jazz song April in Paris, this month is not always as atmospherically charming as you might […]

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‘April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees …’ Which is your favourite version of the classic jazz song? Thelonious Monk’s? Charlie Parker’s? Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s? Frank Sinatra’s? There’s a cute anecdote about how April in Paris came into being, in Art Buchwald’s book Paris. For many years, the columnist […]

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