How do you get your "Paris Fix" ....
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How do you get your "Paris Fix" ....
I've been home only a few days and I'm already missing Paris! I've eaten all the chocolate in the house and now heading to the champagne with my French Cafe cd playing.
What do you do to get your "Paris Fix" at home?
What do you do to get your "Paris Fix" at home?
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Immediately start planing my next trip. After my last trip (October)I realized I'd have to go at least once a year so I've signed up for French lessons at the Alliance Francaise- first class tomorrow night! I also try to eat at LaBonne Soupe (NYC) at least once a month. I always buy mustard and honey while in Paris and enjoy it often once I'm back home. And I daydream an awful lot!
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I watch French tv - news, some talk shows (presented by some tres sexy French men), makes me feel a bit like I'm there now.
Read "Le Monde" on the internet.
Take private lessons twice a month.
Pick up French baroque operas whenever they broadcast them on tv and hope that one day I'll get to experience one of them live at the Garnier.
Plan my next trip, which will take place in just over 3 months. Yes!
Read "Le Monde" on the internet.
Take private lessons twice a month.
Pick up French baroque operas whenever they broadcast them on tv and hope that one day I'll get to experience one of them live at the Garnier.
Plan my next trip, which will take place in just over 3 months. Yes!
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We always have a trip to Paris on the horizon and, when I am in need of a fix, I work on the next trip. When really desperate, we go to Patisserie Poupon in Georgetown, DC, about 3 blocks from home and have a petite dejuner Francais and buy some macarons to take home.
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I go to www.abcparislive.com and up pops the Eiffel Tower. Then I click on Outdoor sights and click on the first picture. I can see what the weather is and watch the lights sparkle on the Tower every hour starting at 11:00 AM or 12 noon my time. I leave it on my computer all day at work and flip over to it. That's my main "fix". And of course reading the posts of others about Paris.
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Books.. books and books.. movies when I can get them...Le Journal newscast on PBS at 6:00 p.m. I cook. Webcams are terrific. Get "France" magazine delivered. Get Adrian Leeds newletter everyday.. and of course, "here". THEN I daydream.
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I post my stuff on Virtual Tourist (www.virtualtourist.com/beatchick) and watch French movies (I drive my kids NUTS! - "oh can't we watch <u>Amélie</u> again?", I talk about it with friends, I help people with travel plans.
Incidentally, Sally Fowler & I are among the Top 5 Paris tipsters on Virtual Tourist! Sally is NUMBER 2!! You all should go look at & rate her stuff to boost her to #1.
www.virtualtourist.com/shrimp56
You can see the Top 5 list here:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/18308/
Go Sally!!
Incidentally, Sally Fowler & I are among the Top 5 Paris tipsters on Virtual Tourist! Sally is NUMBER 2!! You all should go look at & rate her stuff to boost her to #1.
www.virtualtourist.com/shrimp56
You can see the Top 5 list here:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/18308/
Go Sally!!