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Great Apartment Paris
http://www.great-apartment-paris.com
Designer apartment 2 minutes from the Pompidou Centre available for short-term rental (3 - 14 nights). Great design. A really great base for visiting the most beautiful city in the world...
Recent Posts
Chance meetings, happy accidents and pleasant surprises
James B. Franklin - A Night's Reprieve II, 2009One thing I wasn't sure about when we started renting the apartment was the meeting and greeting. After having worked in a (285-room) hotel years and years ago, it wasn't something I was particularly loo...
There\'s no escaping Xmas...
...anywhere in the world - more or less - but especially in Paris, chic shopping capital of the world. Our local supermarket had the Xmas chocolates out on display on 24th September, but we've waited a respectful couple of months after that before pu...
The Canal Apartment gets some Unplggd love
Yep, our other apartment is getting noticed even after just one month. First gushing praise comes from tech site Unplggd, dedicated to "smarter home with fewer wires", which is slightly strange because we have a whole rat's nest of them behind the TV...
L\'Éclaireur, rue de Sévigny - poshness, cardboard and attitude in abundance
I don't think I'll ever have enough money to buy anything at l'Éclaireur, and certainly not the desire. This haughty, exclusive emporium has just opened a new branch not far from the Great Apartment on rue de Sevigny, and peacock proud of it they ar...
Uniqlo, Paris. Or how hype can sometimes hide a pleasant surprise.
The area around Opéra has always been a shopping hub because of the Galeries Lafayette and Printemps stores, plus the fact that one of the major RER lines stops there, bringing in hoards of eager shoppers form the suburbs. In recent years though it ...
Merci, a different sort of Parisian department store
Hype seems to be a very Parisian concept sometimes. Being a sleepier city than - say - London, Parisians like to jump on any sort of 'event', be it real or manufactured, and hype it to the max. The recent hysteria around the new Uniqlo store at Opera...

