Thursday, June 25, 2009

KREYOL FACTORY




CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION - Grande Halle de la Villette - until 5 July 2009

This exhibition proposes a reflection on the question of identities and territories through the eyes of artists, writers and documentarists. The visit is an invitation to discover and meet these different societies.

during this exhibition you may want to look at a place where to stay. Ou staff will be happy to help you to find the right place.

visit our page of paris vacation apartments for rent

label : www.villette.com

Sunday, June 14, 2009

WorldEscape - A firendly site that we recommand




World Escape Apartments helping you escape your world.

World Escape - the vacation apartment specialists. Looking for to escape for a few days, a week or maybe a little longer. ? Well check in with WorldEscape for a stay with a difference.

WorldEscape Group offer apartment accommodation in an ever increasing number of the worlds most exciting cities, currently standing at twenty six as of (Feburary 2009)

Their current cities are Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Edinburgh, Delhi, Dublin, Dubai, Florida, Florence, Goa, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sicily, San Francisco,
Sydney, and Warsaw .

They have other cities planned for 2009 and are already planning 2010.

World Escape are different to the rest. Each city is a independendly managed by a WorldEscape representative who live in the city you will be visiting. This insures that all properties are personally visited by us before being listed on the World Escape site so you can be sure that what you reserve is actually what you will get when you arrive.

They do not list endless pages of properties for each city, we list only a select few, all carefully chosen by our local World Escape representative.

Not all properties get to be listed as they do not meet our standards, When we visit each property, we grade it for quality, location, style and facilities offered. Some owners are willing to add the items to their properties to get listed but ons who do not, cannot get listed on WorldEscape. We only want the best of the best for our guests and visitors.

When you book with WorldEscape you have the WorldEscape guarantee, that once a property has been visited by us it comes under the WorldEscape guarantee scheme which guarantees that the property listed is as it says it is and offers all the facilities it says it does. So you can be assured that what you book will be what you get when you arrive.

All rates are clearly shown and no hidden or extra changes, we clearly show all the rates and charges before you reserve.

World Escape have being helping escape since late1999 starting with Amsterdam Escape which opened it's doors back in the summer of 2000. This proved so popular that the demand from our visitors and guests for other cities offering the same style and facilites helped us make up our mind to expand into other European cities so we opened Rome in 2002, this also proved a huge sucess so we said lets do a little further a field next time so we do, we opened up in Sydney in 2004. Other cities quickly followed and this has now grown to twenty six.

They expect more to be added to the WorldEscape network in the coming years unless the whole world crumbles around us from the credit crunch.

So next time you're excaping your world remember worldescape for a stay with a difference!.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

JIM GOLDBERG, The HCB Award Show


FONDATION HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON - 25 March to 26 July 2009

Jim Goldberg was awarded the HCB Prize in 2007 for his project "The NEw Europeans, a photographic essay on migration flows in Europe. The artist has been a member of Magnum photos since 2006. He was put forward as a candidate by the Henri-Cartier-Bresson Foundation, this €30,000 indivisible prize is a creative catalyst and aims at allowing a photographer to carry through a project wich would have been impossible without it.


Where Do You Want to Stay during this exhibition?
MyKeystoPARIS real estate company has a large list of paris vacation apartments for rent with an accurate information on each apartment. You can easily book on line

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

We recommand Steve Solosky's website

Steve Solosky runs a website at www.travelingprofessor.com. It is full of useful information about traveling to Paris. Here are some of his best picks for dining spots in Paris.

On the left bank in the Latin Quarter/St Germain area, he has some favorites eating spots:

Patisserie Viennoise. 8, rue d l’Ecole de Medecine. Metro: Odeon.
What a classic pastry shop! I go out of my way to have breakfast here. You can sit down inside if you wish. The world’s 2nd best hot chocolate. Closed weekends.

Bistrot d’Henri, 16, rue Princesse, 6th. Metro: Mabillon or St Germain des Pres or St. Sulpice
This is a very popular and friendly spot. The tables are close, but that’s fine because everyone there always seems to be social and willing to share their travel stories. The food is very good. My lunch (for 2) costs 54 euro with wine. Lunch cost me 54 euros for two here in February.
For a variety of inexpensive restaurants with good food and service, go to rue Grégoire de Tours between rue Buci and Boulevard St. Germain and get off the Odeon metro stop in the 6th, . My particular favorite is Au Beaujolais at 9 rue Grégoire de Tours. It is a good value for your euro and you’ll have fun, too. Make sure you see Hakim and mention my name.

Le Pré Verre. 8, rue Thenard, 5th. Metro: Maubert-Mutualite.
You know it has to be good if the Parisians line up to get into the place. Near the Cluny, across the street from the Hotel du College de France. They have a prix fixe dinner for about 35 euro each that includes wine. Lunch costs half of that. Make a reservation a day or two beforehand. This is the best value in Paris. Check out the Hotel du College du France across the street for you next stay in Paris. http://www.lepreverre.com/

Rue Buci: There is a Salon de The which is good for breakfast.

Le Coupe Chou. 9-11, rue de Lanneau, 5th. Metro: Maubert-Mutualite.
Americans seem to love this place located in the Latin Quarter. It’s romantic, it’s very French, it’s reasonable, and the food is good. Usually you don’t need a reservation. You’ll pay about 100 euro for two. http://www.lecoupechou.com/

Café Constant. 139, rue St. Dominique, 7th. Metro: Ecole Militaire. Casual. Great food. Get the “flotante” for dessert. Near Champs du Mars and Rue Cler. 110 euro for two. http://www.leviolondingres.com/eng_news.htm

On the right bank, I like:

Chartier. 7, rue Fauborg Montmartre, 9th. Metro: Grands Boulevards.
Fun and cheap. I eat here at least once every time I go to Paris. You may find your self sharing a water bottle and bread basket with a Parisian or someone from Finland, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, or Tokyo. The food is not the best, but go here to eat as the Parisians have been doing for about 100 years. It’s a lot of fun. You can get an appetizer (called an entrée in Paris), a plat (what we call an entrée in the U.S., dessert, wine (or water) for about 20 euro each. No reservations, just line up outside and chat up the friendly crowd as you wait to get in. They stop seating at precisely 10 pm. http://www.restaurant-chartier.com/www/visit/filsdesans.php

Aux Lyonnais. 32, rue St-Marc, 2nd. Metro: Bourse or Richelieu-Drouot.
An Alain Ducasse restaurant for 100 euro for two? You bet. Top! You need to reserve a day or two ahead of time. http://www.alain-ducasse.com/public_us/cest_aussi/fr_aulyonnais.htm

Bofinger. 5, rue de la Bastille, 4th. Metro: Bastille.
A turn of the century Parisian favorite. Even though the crowd is mostly French, I found the management and waiters to be quite friendly and accommodating. Near the Opera and Bastille. Moderate. It’s near the opera house, so it’s difficult to get a table before or after the opera. You need to reserve a day or two in advance. Probably about 125 euro for two. http://www.bofingerparis.com/

When I was strolling around the Marais in February, I noticed a few very nice restaurants with price fix menus of 20 euro or so that were empty. The economy has hurt the restaurant business badly.

L’As du Fallafel. 34, rue des Rosiers, 4th. Metro: St. Paul.
A Jewish deli-type of restaurant in the Marais. I like it so much for their 5-7 euro Fallafels (they call them “Cocktail de Viandes” which literally means “Meat Cocktail) that I keep their business card tacked on my corkboard in my kitchen. A great little take-away (“emporter” in French) place or fine for a sit-down lunch. Right now, it is one of the most popular eating spots in Paris. It is not fancy at all.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON



MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE From April to October 2009

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Maison européenne de la photographie is presenting 150 of the artist's prints from its collections. An exhibition which brings together his mythical images of Paris and the people of Europe (a series of photographs covering half a century of travel, from the 1930s through to the 1970s) This event is organised in collaboration with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

If you need any vacation apartment for rent in Paris during this event, fell free to make a request on our paris apartment request page. We will help you to find a place where to stay.


Label : www.mep-fr.org

Monday, June 1, 2009

I highly recommend doing one of Richard Nahem's Eye Prefer Paris

Eye Prefer Paris Tours





Eye Prefer Paris tours are private walking tours that show clients the offbeat and unusual Paris that most visitors never see on their own. The tours are customized to the client’s taste & interests and limited to groups of four people. The tours include the areas of St. Germain des Pres, Montparnasse, the Latin Quarter, Monmartre, Canal St. Martin, Bastille, and the specialty is the Marais. Clients get to choose 3 choices of interest from five different categories when they book a tour:

=> Historic buildings

=> Small Museums/Galleries

=> Boutiques/Fashion & Home

=> Food Markets/Gourmet Shops

=> Parks & Gardens


A typical tour can include a visit to the top patisserie in Paris, a secret wild rose garden, shopping in outlet store with up to 70% off of French designer clothing, a magnificent former private mansion from 1658, the oldest food market in Paris hidden in a courtyard, and an artisan's atelier where jewelry is hand-made right in front of you.

Specialized tours of food markets/gourmet shops and shopping tours can be arranged.

Richard Nahem, the owner of the company, describes the tours as informal and very personal, more like a friend showing you Paris than a formal guide. Richard also writes the popular insiders Paris blog www.eyepreferparis.com and many of the places he writes about are on the tour.



Price: 175 euros for a three-hour tour- for up to 4 people

Full day tours are also available

Clients can pay by Paypal

Tours are all year round, everyday

Morning tour 11AM-2PM, afternoon tour 3PM-6PM



Contact info:

Website: www.eyepreferparistours.com

Blog: www.eyepreferparis.com

Tel: 011 33 6 3112 8620

Email: r.nahem@gmail.com