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Unspoken Rules of Paris: L’amour, bien sûr!
Image: Robert Doisneau’s “Les Amoureux” Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco You know that moment right before you jump into a pool that you know is filled with cold water? That strange mixture of drive and… Read more
Unspoken Rules of Paris: Self-Esteem SOS
Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco Escobedo Image: Nouvelle Vague photographer Raymond Cauchetiere It was one thirty in the morning on one of those April days when it’s finally warm enough to be jealous of the people… Read more
Unspoken Rules of Paris: Friends For Sure
Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco The bar right outside of Étienne Marcel was crowded. It wasn’t crowded in the normal, busy brasserie of the deuxième-kind of way. No, there were people awkwardly standing next… Read more
Unspoken Rules Of Paris: How To Be Bored
Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco Paris can be exhilarating, beautiful, surprising, interesting, warm, foul, and many other things. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever come across two people who have identical views on the… Read more
A selection of African restaurants in Paris
Text: Ndali Amobi Home to over 5 million people of African and Arab descent, France enjoys a rich culinary diversity; and where better to experience this than in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Paris. Stroll around… Read more
Unspoken Rules of Paris: Montmartre, Tonmartre
Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco I am about to describe something we’ve all been through. It’s nothing we should be ashamed of because we didn’t know any better. It goes a little something like this.… Read more
Unspoken Rules of Paris: Rivers, Canals, Bridges
Text: Guillermo Martínez de Velasco I don’t think I remember the first time I went to the banks of the Seine at night. It must’ve been during winter. I’m almost sure that they were very… Read more
Le Bal Café
Words: Omid Tavallai Anna Trattles sits across from me at one of the handful of tables inside the high-ceilinged, white-walled, windowed room that is Le Bal Café. “You’ve got five minutes,” she says, constantly looking… Read more
Marché de l’Olive La Chapelle
Text: Emily Sands-Bonin The recently-refurbished Marché de l’Olive has been hailed as very “Baltard” by Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, an allusion to French 19th century architect Victor Baltard, designer of Les Halles, Paris’ mythical… Read more
