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PARIS LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND ≥ LE CONSULAT, MONTMARTRE OLD EUROPE, PAH. PARIS MAY BE PETULANT ABOUT ITS POLITICS, BUT ITS VALUES ARE TIMELESS. LIBERTÉ. EGALITÉ. FRATERNITÉ. NOTIONS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO MOVE HERE. LIFE IS SWEET IN PARIS. WORK IS SIDELINED. A FLEETING INTERRUPTION IN A DAY OF MORE IMPORTANT AMBITIONS: SEASONAL FOOD, WINE WITH FRIENDS, MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION, A MOODY FILM, FINALLY UNDRESSING. COME FOR A WEEKEND. AND YOU’LL RETURN FOREVER. ≥ © PARIS TOURIST OFFICE/STÉPHANE QUERBES ≥ THE PERFECT WEEKEND FRIDAY > PULL INTO GARE DU NORD AND TAKE A TAXI TO THE EIFFEL TOWER JUST BEFORE CLOSING… A WONDERFUL WAY TO START THE WEEKEND. ON THE WAY, CHECK INTO THE MONTALEMBERT OR QUAI VOLTAIRE, DEPENDING ON YOUR BUDGET. DRINKS AT LA PALETTE, STEAK-FRITES AT LE RELAIS DE L ’ENTRECÔTE, FOLLOWED BY JAZZ OPPOSITE AT LE BILBOQUET (13 RUE ST-BENOÎT). SATURDAY > CHOOSE A GALLERY, PERHAPS CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE PALAIS DE TOKYO. ON TO SWANK AVENUE MONTAIGNE FOR BIG SPENDING… OR CHEEKY BUYS ON RUE TIQUETONNE. LUNCH IN THE COURTYARD OF HÔTEL COSTES (239 RUE ST-HONORÉ, +33 1 42 44 50 00). WANDER IN THE JARDIN DES TUILERIES. EVENING DRINKS AT LE FUMOIR (6 RUE DE L ’AMIRAL COLIGNY) AND DINNER/DANCING AT CABARET. SUNDAY > HOP AROUND THE MAD COLUMNS IN THE PALAIS ROYAL GARDENS. MEANDER INTO THE MARAIS, ONE OF THE FEW LIVELY AREAS ON A SUNDAY. BRUNCH AT ECLECTIC LE LOIR DANS LA THÉIÈRE (3 RUE DES ROSIERS) WHERE LOCALS SINK INTO SOFAS WITH LE MONDE. CHECK OUT THE QUEUE AT THE POMPIDOU OR MUSÉE PICASSO. SLIP INTO PLACE DES VOSGES FOR RESPITE. QUICK SNACK AT LE PETIT FER À CHEVAL. THEN GRAB YOUR BAGS AND HEAD TO THE STATION 30MIN BEFORE DEPARTURE. © MOULIN ROUGE/J HABAS ARRIVAL > Walking from the platform, the Métro is slightly to your left, down the escalators. Follow the M. The taxi rank is to your right (follow taxi signs). Down in the Métro, buy a carnet of ten single tickets for 210/£6.70 from the sales window (often a queue) or at the machines (quicker but they only take Euro coins or French credit cards). Métro lines are numbered/ coloured and train direction indicated by naming the terminus station. It’s open 5.30am– 12.30am-ish. Carnet tickets are also valid on the efficient bus network, operating 24 hours a day. Note, night services are limited and routes restricted to only those originating in Place du Châtelet. At the taxi rank, journeys cost 20.62/km or 40p/km, with extra charges for station pick-ups and luggage. From Gare du Nord to the Arc de Triomphe or St-Germain, it might cost 215/£10, depending on traffic. At other times, flagging a cab on the street is hit-and-miss (their roof light is white if vacant) and taxi ranks are few-and-far (stations, junctions). Call in advance: +33 1 45 85 85 85 or +33 1 42 03 50 50. Regular taxis take three passengers so request a bigger vehicle if you’re a group. WHAT’S ON > The unmissable Moulin Rouge still has a kitsch high-kicking can-can (285 per head with 1⁄ 2 bottle of champagne, +33 1 53 09 82 82). For the more classical, check out ballet/opera repertoires at Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille (+33 8 92 89 90 90 for either). Annual events include the Paris Marathon in April, and French Tennis Open late May. In June, celebrate Gay Pride, as well as the Fête de la Musique on the 21st with street concerts and bands along the banks of the Seine. The Tour de France finishes late July on the Champs- Elysées. On July 14th, fireworks at the Eiffel Tower commemorate the 1789 storming of Bastille prison and launch the month- long Summertime Festival (until August 15th). For more info, visit the tourist kiosk in the Gare du Nord station. Or call +33 8 92 68 30 00, www.paris-touristoffice.com. WHAT’S OFF > Most shops are closed Sundays; some restaurants are closed Sundays; museums are generally closed Mondays or Tuesdays (entrance is free the first Sunday of every month). GETTING AROUND > EUROSTAR PULLS INTO THE HUSTLING-BUSTLING HUB OF PARIS, THE GARE DU NORD. ≥ © MOULIN ROUGE/J HABAS IN THE KNOW > IN THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION, CREATE A DAY OF SURPRISES. ≥ collection of Arabic art, with a 9th-floor restaurant terrace overlooking the river. THE BLUE HOUR > Elbow through the crowds at Notre Dame to the western tip of Île de la Cité, where the enchanting Square du Vert Galant juts out from under the Pont Neuf. SUNSET > Métro up to former artist colony Montmartre – the highest point of Paris – to the gleaming white Sacré-Coeur. To avoid the tour groups, trek to the top of the church’s dome. EVENING > Thursday nights at 8.30pm, the Fondation Cartier presents Les Soirées Nomades in its contemporary art gallery. An evening of music, poetry or some creative force, in the gallery or delicious wild garden. Book in advance (261 blvd Raspail, +33 1 42 18 56 72). LATE > For Pernod, it’s only La Palette (43 rue de Seine). NIGHT> Beam up the Eiffel Tower last thing at night when it is at its quietest. The elevator shuts at 11pm in winter, midnight in summer, 210.40. EARLY > Wake up to the sun at the Musée Marmottan with Monet’s sublime painting Impression Soleil Levant (2 rue Louis Boilly). MORNING > Avoid the crowds along the Seine and instead head to hip district Canal St-Martin. Drop by Antoine et Lili, an upmar- ket hippy-chick boutique selling colourful fashion and kitsch gifts (95 quai de Valmy) and next door, Stella Cadente’s feathery jewellery shop (93 quai de Valmy). Drinks at Chez Prune, a former tabac with terrace (71 quai de Valmy). DAYTIME > The Institut du Monde Arabe created by Jean Nouvel is one of Paris’ newest icons of design. A glass and metal mosaic towering up like an intricate vertical Persian carpet. Inside, the museum holds a divine CANAL ST-MARTIN SACRÉ-COEUR © PARIS TOURIST OFFICE/CATHERINE BALET © PARIS TOURIST OFFICE/ALAIN POTIGNON northern masters at the time. Get an audioguide because labelling is poor. Best buy your ticket in advance to skip the queues (entry 28.50, +33 1 40 20 53 17, www.louvre.fr). >At the Musée d’Orsay, art ranges from 1848–1914 including the height of Impressionism. If you want to stick to that genre, head to the 5th floor only (Manet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne). Get the audioguide to hear what critics said during the artists’ lifetimes. And be warned, Orsay has the slowest queue (entry 27,+331404948 00, www.musee- orsay.fr). >The Pompidou Centre hosts modern art from the last century (Braque, Matisse, Chagall, Yves Klein), plus fantastic temporary exhibitions. For the permanent collection, pay 27 to access the 5th floor (1905–1960) and 4th floor (1960–today). Plan ahead (+33 1 44 78 12 33, www.centrepompi- dou.fr).>If you buy the Museum Pass (carte musée et monuments), you get free access to the above three with shorter queues. It’s on sale at main Métro stations and tourist offices (1 day costs 218). THE SMALL THREE>Find some shade under the lime trees at the Musée Rodin sculpture garden, pondering The Thinker, the Gates of Hell and the Burghers of Calais THE BIG THREE >Start at the exhausting Louvre (three wings, four floors). Consider the exqui- site Arts of Islam/ Mesopotamia galleries on the Lower Ground/ Ground floors (Richelieu wing). The 1st Floor (Denon wing) holds the Renaissance masters’ includ- ing the Mona Lisa. On the 2nd Floor, see Vermeer, Rembrandt and Watteau – the only French painter who could rival the ≥ ART> THE SECRET SMILE RESTS WITH THOSE WHO OPT SMALL. TRY TO RESIST BIG ART GALLERIES UNLESS YOU ARE LOADED WITH ENERGY, HAVE BOUGHT A TICKET IN ADVANCE (ONLINE) AND PLAN TO CHERRY-PICK ROOMS. PALAIS DE TOKYO POMPIDOU CENTRE © PARIS TOURIST OFFICE/CATHERINE BALET © PARIS TOURIST OFFICE/CATHERINE BALET (77 rue de Varenne, entry 25, www.musee-rodin.fr).>Or the Musée Picasso blessed with the world’s greatest collection of the Spanish artist who spent much of his life in Paris. Consequently, the French state snatched a quarter of his paintings in lieu of inheritance tax (5 rue de Thorigny, entry 25.50, www.musee-picasso.fr). >For contemporary art, the Palais de Tokyo offers funky exhibitions with a canteen scene (13 avenue du Président Wilson, entry 26, www.palaisdetokyo.com). MARAIS > Mellow at literary café Les Philosophes (10 rue du Trésor) or the trendier horseshoe-shaped hub Le Petit Fer à Cheval (30 rue Vieille du Temple). Up to Andy Wahloo, a funky Moroccan bar with hubbly bubblies, mezze snacks and Momo’s minty margaritas in town but the sourest doorstaff (46 rue du Faubourg St-Antoine). Finish up at cramped SanzSans with its gilt framed TV screens showing CCTV per- spectives of the club and mad barmen who thrash cymbals between serving customers (49 rue du Faubourg St-Antoine). RUE OBERKAMPF > Gritty and grungy. Try pub-style Le Mecano Bar hosting exhibitions and concerts (99 rue Oberkampf), with some quick tapas next door at L’Abreuvoir. Hang uploads/Ingenierie_Lourd/ paris-guide.pdf