Christmas markets in Paris
  • 23
  • Dec
  • 2009

Although I’m more fond of London or New York at this time of the year, but you happen to be in Paris,there are plenty things to do and explore;

To get a real Christmas feeling, stroll on one of the Christmas markets all over the city. Most of them are on well know places and can easily be found.

Here are some tips :

Marché de Noël Champs-Elysées open every day from Nov 20 until Dec 28
Also attractions for children, rather crowdy

Marché de Noël à Saint-Germain Nov 28 – Dec 31
Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés,75006 Paris

Le Marché de Noël de la Nation 1-24 Dec
Place de la Nation, 75012 Paris

Marché de Noël de Montparnasse
Here you  find little gadgets and food from over the whole world.
Place Raoul Dautry, 33 avenue du Maine, 75015 Paris

Marché de Noël à la Gare de l’Est every day in Dec
In front of  la Gare de l’Est, 75010 Paris

Marché de Noël de la Place Saint-Sulpice 10-24 Dec – very charming and fun place to go

Marché de Noël Place des Abbesses , every in Dec
Close to the Montmartre Studio Loft
1 place des Abbesses – 75018 Paris

Le marché de Noël de la Gare Saint-Lazare , during Dec
Cour de Rome, 75009 Paris

Marché de Noël – Square Viviani – Quai de Montebello 16 – 20 décembre 2009  11h- 20h
Life concerts, entertainment for children
Square Viviani – Quai de Montebello – next to  Cathédrale Notre-Dame, 75005 Paris

Le village de Noël au Port de Suffren Dec 23 – Jan 3
near the Seine with la Tour Eiffel in sight, 75007 Paris

Les Féeries d’Auteuil 5-20 Dec
Life music, little concerts, entertainment for children and more
40 rue Jean de La Fontaine, 75016 Paris

Le Marché de Noël de la Maison du Limousin , December, on walking distance from the Montmartre Studioloft

30 rue de Caunmartin, 75009 Paris 9ème

Ice cream or chocolat chaud at Berthillon
  • 16
  • Dec
  • 2009

A landmark on Ile St-Louis after more than 3 dozen years in business, the salon de thé Berthillon offers the world’s best selection of ice cream.

Try gingerbread, bitter chocolate mousse, rhubarb, melon, kumquat, black currant and any fresh fruit in season. There are moren than 70 flavors and nothing artificial. 

Parisians flock here in such numbers that gendarmes have been called out to direct the traffic of ice cream aficionados. 

In wintertime it’s more calm and you can warm yourself over a nice cup of hot chocolat that comes in a silver can.

Berthillon, 31, Rue St-Louis-e,-l’Ile, 75004 Paris, tel 01 43 54 31 61, M° Pont Marie

Get an idea of Nabaz
  • 02
  • Nov
  • 2009
Nabaz’mob,opéra for 100 smart rabbits at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
  • 30
  • Oct
  • 2009

100 Nabaztag smart rabbits play together an opera specially composed by Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé.

Inviting John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic scorein three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece.
Schmitt and Birgé have chosen to twist the industrial object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears, the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three voices built on time delay and repetition, programming and disrespect for rules.

Until the 9th of November at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris