Thank you everyone for all the great information. Alot of information!

Take the subway and bus to Malmaison, Emily and I enjoyed the home of Josephine. The Loire valley is great. Visit the museum of Gustave Moreau this is his house and gallery, it was great. I have some pictures on my site emilyandjim.info on yahoo

Sunday brunch at the MU'see Jacuemart-André.

RER to Chatou, walk to the Ile des Impressionistes, have lunch at La Maison Fournaise, where Renoir painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party."

Go to Nogent-sur-Marne, to the Parc de Plaisance and see Le Verger, one of the original guingettes.

Check out the typewriter museum.

Go to the Musée de la Musique in La Villette.

Go see the aviary on top of the Opéra Garnier.

Have a drink in the bar at the top of le Tour Montparnasse.

Get on a bus, any bus, take it to the last stop, and get out and walk around. Remember where the bus stop was.

Visit the Parc George Brassens and enjoy the book market and fragrance garden.

Go on the tour of the Aubusson museum.

Stroll through the Parc Monceau.

Hike around the Buttes Chaumont.

Go to a concert in Ste-Chapelle.

Take the walking tour in the Eyewitness guide of the artists' ateliers in Montmartre.

Go to Au Lapin Agile one evening and sing with the locals, or just watch.

Go to Deyrolle and ogle the taxidermy.

There's a start...

But St. Cirq, what will they do on the second day?

Great list.

Don't get me started, Tom!!!

StCirq,
Great list indeed.
i like the idea of taking a bus to the last stop and get off. We did that in Rome on a train and found a nice area full of locals and shops and great gelato.

My sister and I just returned from a month in Europe. We spent our last 6 days in Paris. We both agree that one of the top days of the entire month was our day trip from Paris to Caen for a tour of the D-Day beaches. We booked the full day tour through LinkParis.com and it was wonderful. I normally don't do tours, but this was small (8 people max) and the tour guide was incredible. The quality of the tour obviously depends on the individual guide, but ours was great. There is so much information that we would not have known had we done this trip without a guide. They pick you up from the train station and drop you off there, so it is very easy. They will even book your train tickets for you if you want (we had a Eurail pass, so didn't use this service).

I highly recommend this or a similar trip to Normandy!

There is a lot of good information on the Paris TOurist Information website, which many people don't take advantage of. They list all street markets on there, for example, with hours. It's in the shopping section, I think
http://www.parisinfo.com/ in that "other" part.

They also list all kinds of things to do you might not think of, new events or openings, etc. LIke the open-air cinema in July at the Trocadero, or later on and in August at la Villette (where there is a jazz festival sometime in summer, also).

There are many things to do if you just pick up a weekly entertainment guide when you are there which lists them all, by category (eg, Pariscope) such as cinema, museums, monuments, music, etc.

If you want ideas for daytrips, I'd suggest you buy the book by Earl Steinbicker, Day Trips in France, which will give you many ideas and details on how to do them and what to see.

Have you been to:

The sewers of Paris--very interesting, (not smelly). We enjoyed it.

The Passages--there are about 6 lovely 18-19th glass topped shopping arcades around the city. Small shops in each, they were delightful.

Marais--a tiny wonderful section of Paris where you can just wander and end up or begin at the Place des Voges.

The catacombs with lots of skulls.

River cruise on the canal was very nice going through the locks and seeing another side of Paris.

A concert at St. Chapelle was the highlight of my (4th) trip to Paris.

Orangerie--to see the Monet masterpieces was incredible.

Church of St. Denis--where all the kings of France are buried.

You could also start and end your day at the Louve especially when they are open late.

I assume you've hit the flea market but if not, try to go.

I did all of this on my last trip which also was in the end of Oct beginning of Nov. PS. Giverny closes Oct 31.

Mike - this is so weird. I just wrote a report called Paris - Things we did the third time. Its posted today if you want to read it.

chicagolori,
I started reading your report. Great stuff. I lke the free concert idea in the Bastille area. That is where i will be staying.