What To Do in Paris France

You’ve arrived! What to do in Paris France now you’ve settled into your hotel, hostel or apartment? Visit the museums? Walk through the parks and bois [woods and forests]?

Sample the cafés and restaurants? Go shopping? Go wine tasting? The choices are enormous!!! I’ll provide a few of my favourite things to do, and throw in some other ideas, to see which ones tickle your fancy.

Pssst! In a hurry? View the Site Map for the ‘big picture’ look at this website.

Click photos to read what to do in Paris during the day

Daytime

• view the Site Map for the ‘big picture’ look at this website :-)
• have a picnic
• visit the Catacombs [underground caves, skulls & bones]
• have a delicious coffee
• drink a delicious freshly squeezed fruit juice
• visit museums
• go to internet cafés
• visit artists in their studios
• listen to live music
• read books about Paris
• visit English-language bookshops and libraries
• go out for breakfast, lunch or dessert
• think about what to eat – go to a brasserie
• visit a salon de the [tea shop]
• have an alcoholic drink
• go wine tasting
• walk around different arrondissements to meet the locals
• learn French
• go shopping
• visit Paris markets, flea markets or Christmas/winter markets
• visit famous chocolate shops
• shop in a monastery
• search for antique books
• learn words of love in French :-) you never know when you’ll need these
• learn the French national anthem
• take a Silk Art/Silk Painting Tour
• search the cool parts of hidden Paris
• find gay and lesbian information

What to do in Paris at night

Night time

• attend a private soiree to meet locals &other foreigners
• go out for cocktails, aperitifs
• go out for dinner, dessert
• find a late night bar open till the wee hours
• looking for a dash of naughtiness? Check out our page for burlesque shows, exotic dancers and flamboyant nightclubs- see a live show
• visit naughty nightclubs
• check out some jazz clubs, listen to some blues
• visit nightclubs
• go salsa dancing
• visit gay bars

All year round

• Visting in December or January? See our Calendar of Events for what’s on! | Check out all the TOURS in Paris!

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