If someone were to ask you “What is the most romantic city?” it would be a safe bet to assume you’ll say Paris.

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

We round off Paris Romance Week and our Love Paris giveaway with a slight departure from our regular programming, as Paris creatives Mademoiselle London take over with some lurve-themed prose and artwork.

They title the piece “English girls and Parisian boys… The geography may be different, but the anatomy is still the same.” Enjoy…

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

When I first moved to France, I remember stopping dead in my tracks and one Frenchman in particular. His beige trench coat, his tanned skin, and his handsome face almost stopped time altogether. In shock, I wondered if it were possible to snag a guy like him. But cultural misunderstandings set me back for years…

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

The French have the apéro down to an art form. Appetites are whet with typically French pre-dinner sips such as kir, bubbly or martini blanc.

But, while it’s always fun to get down with the locals, sometimes us cocktail-drinkers just want a serious dry martini.

Here’s where you take your date to try one…

» Continue reading “Five Best Martini Bars for a Hot Date in Paris”

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

Paris is known as a romantic city and the mere mention of the city provokes in girls the same effect as Viagra does in men. Taking your girl to Paris is one of the best ways to rekindle the initial excitement three months after meeting her at a random indie gig…

» Continue reading “Take your Girl on a Date in Paris: Five Best Bars”

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

Back in college I had the fortune of living in Paris as a foreign exchange student.

I lived there for six months with a French family – and the experience altered my life in the most profound of ways. The city is so haunting and beautiful- the people so different and enigmatic, the food so decadent, the art so rich and the activities (even the mundane ones) so romantic…

» Continue reading “What makes Paris so Romantic?”

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

Bonjour,

I’m La Mom (“The Mom”) and I write a blog about tales from my life as an expat American mom in Paris. The main characters in my amazing life in the City of Light are my husband and children whom I call “Big Cheese” and the “French Fries”…

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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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COMPETITION NOW CLOSED – THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED!

It’s your final chance to win a trip to Paris in our Love Paris giveaway, and love is in the air…

This week it’s Paris Romance Week, with a chance to win a dream Paris trip for you and your plus-one.

» Continue reading “Win a Trip to Paris with your Funniest Travel Couple Pic – it’s our Paris Romance Week!”

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

Forget your most beautiful, forget your most romantic (with one or two notable exceptions), here I offer you an alternative take on the age old problem: how not to end up writing unpalatable, purple prose-tinted, nauseating gush when talking about Paris and its good old Mère Seine.

Whence the list below, where I offer you the most artistic, the most pretentious  and, yes I couldn’t resist, the most romantic bridges in Paris, to name but a few. So go ahead and get out there; maybe I’ll cross you on the Seine one of these days.

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