Le Cordon Bleu Paris Who could ask for more than to have the gastronomic capital of Paris as a campus! You will be able to explore the open air markets, enjoy a leisurely afternoon in a sidewalk café, take a midnight boat ride on the Seine, and discover your own culinary finds from specialty shops to restaurants. La vie est belle ! Left & Right Banks Historically, the Left Bank of the river Seine (which divides Paris) was known as a centre for arts and culture while the Right Bank was associated with business, finance and the city's more upscale districts. The Bastille, Opera House and art gallery Centre Georges Pompidou are on the Right Bank while most of the city's universities, jazz venues and "philosophical cafés" are on the Left Bank, as are the designerboutiques and chic restaurants of St-Germain-des-Prés.
Narrative Table By Melody Rose NEWS 21 December 2011, 12.33 | - POSTED BY De Jeunes Gens Modernes For Christmas you have several ways to be creative on your table. You can make a Santa Claus in salt dough, play origami with napkins or choose the right crockery. The “Upcycled Vintage Ceramics” by Melody Rose is designed to change the look of your meal. Melanie Roseveare, the designer, is a canadian-born who currently lives and works in West London. Le Marais, the chic district of Paris Spreading along the right bank of the Seine, Le Marais is the perfect setting for a getaway: with galleries and museums, pavement artists decorating the streets outside the bustling cafes and restaurants, with craft and antique shops and vintage clothing stores, and, of course, some of the finest architecture in the city of lights. Following the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois will lead you to the symbolic centre of the district: la Place des Vosges, a perfectly symmetrical gem of a square which is one of the most beautiful spots in Paris. Here you can browse around the antique shops and, of course, make the obligatory stop at the pavement cafe Ma Bourgogne, among the city's most famous. For tourism there are many fine city mansions or palaces – known in French as 'hotels', Victor Hugo's house, the elegant Hotel de Sully and the Picasso Museum, in the magnificent Hotel Sale.
Peaceful Cruises on French Waterways Hidden from most roads, deep in the lovely French countryside, are a multitude of waterways. These ancient forms of navigation are still used to transport goods on barges across regions of France. But they are also enjoyed by plaisanciers (boaters), and several companies rent boats where a family or a group of friends can spend several days exploring the French back country. Nivernais Canal Taking such cruises harks back to slower times, when barges would be pulled by horses walking alongside the banks.
Paris's top 10 hidden shopping passages At the end of the 18th century, town planners in Paris created a labyrinth of hidden passages across Paris. Over the years many fell into disrepair or were demolished, but if you know where to look you can still push back a doorway and walk into a fabulous belle époque arcade, a glittering art nouveau galerie or an ancient courtyard. Here are 10 worth tracking down. F.E.U. inc. 3月13日 水曜日 2013 From Eastend TokyoAsakusa Jinta New album “Moonless Night” par Arnaud Pages par mental groove Why do people hate hipsters? There was a party going on in London E5; a house party in one of the Victorian terraces that line the streets in this modest area of east London. There had been parties on the street before, only on this particular Friday evening two months ago, guests wore Ray-Bans, deep-cut v-neck T-shirts and skinny jeans. They were also, according to one partisan report, in possession of "a sound system louder than the big bang". Quite an event, yet not everyone in the street appreciated the loud music and louder fashions. "I only put 'hate' in the title of the blog," explains annoyed neighbour and anonymous author of Hackney Hipster Hate photo-blog, "because, on the night I wrote it, I was watching floods of hipsters arrive in the early hours at a terrace house and having an Ibiza-style party. It drove me insane."
Top 10 Passages of Paris Based on the idea of a souk, a covered area in which to meet, shop and browse, it is believed that in Paris it was the Galeries du Bois du Palais Royal built in 1786, that became the model for the passages of Paris that appeared in the coming years. This arcade, which used to house 120 luxury boutiques, was one of the most popular spots in Paris before 1830 and surrounds the central gardens of Palais Royal which is open to the public. Imitation of the elegant and highly favoured Galeries du Bois du Palais Royal, saw the construction of galleries such as Galerie Feydeau (1791 – no longer exists), Passage Caire (1798 – present day) and Passage Panoramas (1799 – present day).