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How to Bike around Paris and Monet’s Gardens

Fat Tire Bikes interview

Sadie is interviewed as part of Paris Romance Week for our Love Paris giveaway

Fat Tire Bike Tours are giving a romantic eight-hour bike tour of Monet’s Gardens to the lucky winners of our Paris Romance Week competition to win a trip to Paris.

We talk to Sadie Sumner of Fat Tire Bikes to find out more about the tour, and cycling in Paris…

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The Great Outdoors… of Paris?

Jardin du Luxembourg by ParisKarin - analienparisienne

Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris giveaway

When I think of Paris, “Adventures in the Great Outdoors” is not the first thing that springs to mind.

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Four Favourite Parks and Gardens in Paris

Buttes-Chaumont

Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris giveaway

As well as the architecture, culture and food, another reason to visit Paris is to enjoy the various parks and gardens around the city. Below are some of the best…

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Five Places to take Stunning Outdoor Photos in Paris

souvenir de Paris

Trocadero – Eiffel Tower – © Jean-Michel Leclercq

Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris campaign.

Jean Michel Leclercq is a photographer living in Paris. Keen on black and white, with images enhanced by HDR and selective colouring, his shots of the city are true portraits – taken with love.

Read below for his five tip-offs on where best to capture Paris on camera

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Top Things to see Outdoors In Paris

Top Things to see Outdoors in Paris

Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris giveaway

When visiting Paris, you are visiting one of the most romantic countries in the world. But if you are an outdoorsy type of person, the last thing you feel like doing is spending hours shopping or in your hotel, you’ll want to get out and about. Luckily, Paris has so much outdoor life to offer…
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Paris off the Beaten Path

Paris off the Beaten Path

Written as part of Paris Culture Week for our Love Paris giveaway

I am the author of the novel Hidden in Paris, and a Parisian woman who has lived in the United States for the last 24 years. When I go back to my hometown it’s as a tourist, but an educated one, one who hurries past the well-known museums and tired old streets, and has no patience for mingling with tourists such as herself…

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London’s Best Summer Nightlife, Spotted by Locals


Image by Deanna Romano

We asked Spotted by Locals’ London locals to make a list of their favorite summer nightlife spots. In alphabetical order, here they are!

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Five Fairytale Landscapes that Actually Exist

Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany

Fairytale landscapes: thought they only existed in stories? Whether you’ve always wanted to walk through the gates of Cinderella’s castle, stay in a hobbit hole, float above a Dr. Seuss landscape or even experience the perfect silence at the end of the earth, you don’t have to just imagine it any longer.

Find yourself in a place straight out of your favourite dog-eared fantasy book: take a look at our top five landscapes that seem too amazing to be real…

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N.Y.C. from a Brooklyn-ite’s P.O.V.: Interview with the Brooklyn Nomad

brooklyn bridge Brooklyn’s been a hub for ‘alternative’ NYC for a good few years now, with visitors and locals alike enjoying its artsy attitude and open, skyscraper-free skyline. We take ten minutes with Andrew Hickey, aka the Brooklyn Nomad to talk top sights, summer events and bagels…

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Spring has Sprung! Top Ten Springtime City Parks and Gardens

Springtime has well and truly sprung: today marks the spring equinox, when day and night are both approximately 12 hours long. To celebrate, here are our ten favourite parks and gardens in or near major cities, so even the most hardened urbanites can catch spring in bloom…

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