So you’re coming to Paris on a holiday or for an extended stay? Lucky you! Don’t plan a thing until you read Practical Paris (Everything You Need to Know About Paris but Didn't Know to Ask). This guide was compiled by a Paris tour company operator, and is the result of touring English-speaking visitors around the City of Light since 2004. The book answers the most urgent needs, concerns, doubts and questions that repeatedly get asked by visitors--before, during and after arrival. Save time, hassle and needless expense and make the most of your precious stay in Paris -- we’ve done the research and work for you and have presented the ‘insider information’ in an easy format that can be read in a just a couple of hours!

There are also lots of useful links on our website conveniently sorted in alphabetical order for your reference. You will want to bookmark this page and refer to it often.

Happy Travels!

What People Are Saying . . . . .

*****NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC loves this guide!

In 2007, National Geographic author and US Travel Authority Marybeth Bond came to Paris on one of our tours with her best friend and god-daughter and loved it! She included in her latest book our Top 100 Myths About Paris from our Practical Paris guidebook and check out other references on Pages 42, 43, 49, 52 and 53! Download Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide (a National Geographic book) written by our favorite travel diva, Marybeth Bond.

*****MORE USA MAGAZINE
From "Reinvest Yourself Abroad" article, February 2011 print magazine edition.

... "Then she leveraged the business by writing a guidebook, Practical Paris (just released as an ebook from tapbookspublishing.com), and created shopping guides in app format (chicwalks.com). An explorer by nature, she still travels extensively (sometimes with her new Canadian husband), but the City of Light is her beacon: "Whenever I leave Paris, I feel this strong pang in my heart."

*****VISION 2000 TRAVEL GROUP – National Leisure Marketing

The Practical Paris guide is a must-read for our Women’s Travel Connection members before we head off to Paris for our annual trip. Reading the guide is like having ‘Karen the tour guide’ right alongside. Her insider knowledge is invaluable to us.

Cathy Scott
Marketing Director
Vision 2000 Travel Group – National Leisure Marketing
womenstravelconnection.ca

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Submitted by ACanadianGuy, Ontario: Insider tip – if you are looking for an excellent guidebook on Paris, I can recommend Practical Paris by Karen Henrich of Nuit Blanche Tours. She’s a Canadian who has lived in Paris for several years and points out valuable insights usually not seen in other guidebooks.

*****TRAVELGIRL MAGAZINE
Article Excerpt titled "Paris, France" (P. 36) by Marybeth Bond, Summer 2009 Issue

Last fall two girlfriends and I treated ourselves to a private shopping guide for one day through Nuit Blanche Tours. Karen, the author of Practical Paris (www.TapBooksPublishing.com) and founder, taught us how to find chic clothing at affordable prices. She knows how to find designer showrooms, off-the-beaten track boutiques and fashion-specific street markets. She introduced us to a great street "marche" in a residential section of southern Paris. The market is near the Convention Metro stop and operates in the street on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 9 AM to around 1 PM. Look for the stalls lining the streets selling food, flowers, clothes, shoes, bags and all sorts of things at very low prices. I bought a suede purse and shoes to match and a pair of jeans for just 4 euros. How do you know if they'll fit when you can't try them on? Karen showed me a trick that works! Put the waist around your neck and if it overlaps about an inch, the pants will fit.

Author: Karen Henrich
Kindle Edition: 73 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Chicwalks Media Inc. (2010-12-17) (2010-12-17)
List Price: $2.99
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Adrian Leeds Top 100 Cheap Insider Paris Restaurants

You don’t need to be rich to dine well – you just need to be in the know!

I began writing this guide in 1996, not long after I moved to Paris as a permanent resident and ferreting out charming, little out-of-the-way places where tourists likely won’t find easily, but to which the locals flock. It is often the simple, hole-in-the-wall, mom-pop restaurants that serve the best food at the most reasonable prices...and they are getting harder and harder to find in today's modern world. When you’re a tourist on holiday you will often end up eating in the touristy spots that are convenient – and you’ll often be disappointed. But carry this guide with you in the City of Light, and no matter where you are at any given moment you'll be able to find great French restaurants (and sometimes other kinds of cuisine) not far from where you are – so you won't have to waste one single precious meal on bad food in the city we love most – Paris!

Bon Appétit!

What People Are Saying . . . .

“I can't claim to have tried Adrian's recommendations in all the quartiers, but regarding mine -- the 6th arrondissement -- and others nearby, she's straight on, with (unlike some cheap eats guides) a high standard and reliable palate.”

--Diane Johnson. Author, "Le Divorce"

"For two decades, Adrian Leeds has prowled the grandest of the grands boulevards, the most intimate of the tiny impasses of Paris, eating her way through the entire range of French gastronomy. Now, she’s given us her intimate guide to 100 favorite finds, not to mention her dos and don’ts of how best to enjoy them, along with a valuable glossary to help even novice would-be Francophiles navigate their way through the thickets of a Parisian menu. A must-read, must-carry guide to all that is just so wonderful about dining out in Paris."

--David A. Andelman, Editor, World Policy Journal; former Paris correspondent, CBS News

"This brand new carefully vetted restaurant guide is absolutely marvelous, trustworthy — and Adrian, the author is too! I highly recommend you download her guide — it’s where the French eat — and affordable and absolutely top notch. This lady is a dynamo!"
--Kathleen Spivack, author and poet, winner of many literary prizes and nominatee for a Pulitzer Prize

“I think I have every guide published for Paris… Leeds is definitely my favorite, and well worth the price. Every place we tried from this guide…was a winner, most even better than anticipated.”
--Donna K.

“Your restaurant guide is super. This is our fifth visit to Paris since 1997 and ‘je me demande’: ‘How did we survive sans le guide de Leeds!’”
--Simmie G.

“I used the guide every day while visiting Paris. My elderly mother and husband both thought I was a genius! We ate at wonderful restaurants, and were delighted by the prices. The guide was very accurate with its descriptions. Because we used the guide we were able to see parts of Paris that we would not have ventured to on our own.”
--Gretchen A.



Author: Adrian Leeds
Kindle Edition: 95 pages Kindle eBook
Company: TapBooks, an imprint of Chicwalks Media Inc. (2011-02-13) (2011-02-13)
List Price: $2.99
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Author: Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw
Paperback: 712 pages
Company: Avalon Travel Publishing (2011-11-29)
ISBN: 1612380069
List Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $11.87
Used Price: $12.45

You've devoured the last morsel of your savory book. Now what?

If you still have a stomach that yearns for more, "Behind the Story" will be a most delightful surprise for you.

Just like the name, "Behind the Story", this innovative guide takes you by the hand and becomes your personal guide on a private tour into where it's normally hidden from the public... shhh...the backstage of The Paris Wife...!!


You'll be a special VIP during this journey where you'll get to discover in depth about the author who magnificently created the story, her inspiration to write the story, the writing journey, the publishing journey, how it was received by the public and the critics, trivia, memorable quotations, spicy discussion questions, and much more!

These sizzling insider stories that will most definitely get your mouth watering once more and satisfy even the last pit of your hungry stomach!


BUT... one question remains... do you have ROOM for this DELICIOUS desert?! ;)


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How Did This Book Come to Birth?

Paula McLain decided to take in this amazing adventure of writing about the youth of Ernest Hemingway through his wife eyes when she started to read his memoir – A Movable Feast.

The author herself confesses in an interview:” His reminiscences of Hadley were so moving that I decided to seek out biographies of her life—and that's when I knew what I'd found something special.”

So this is how her journey started, a journey of finding a tender, vulnerable, and very human Hemingway – the way we’ve never knew him before – and of discovering a powerful, loving, extraordinary woman who definitely helped the amazing writer that we know now – Ernest Hemingway – to invent himself...


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This work is meant to not replace, but complement the original work. It is a digestive work and meant to grant the readers a different perspective, to stimulate the appetite and encourage the readers to enjoy and appreciate the original work even further. (if it's possible!)




Author: Sarah Reagan
Kindle Edition: 14 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-06-28) (2011-06-28)
List Price: $4.99
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Here’s New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming on how 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin charmed Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle that led to the British defeat in the American Revolution.

Author: Thomas Fleming
Kindle Edition: 12 pages Kindle eBook
Company: New Word City, Inc. (2011-06-01) (2011-06-01)
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*Sleeping with Paris won first place in the Women’s Fiction category of the 2010 Washington Romance Writers Marlene Awards and was a finalist in the 2010 Valley Forge Romance Writers Sheila Contest.

Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when she discovers her fiancé’s online dating profile and has a little chat with the busty red-head he’s been sleeping with on the side, she gives up on committed relationships altogether and decides to navigate Paris on her own.

Determined to stop other women from finding themselves in her shoes, Charlotte creates an anonymous blog on how to date like a man in the City of Love—that is, how to jump from bed to bed without ever falling in love. But, with a slew of Parisian men beating down her door, a hot new neighbor who feeds her chocolate in bed, and an appearance by her sleazy ex-fiancé, she isn’t so sure she can keep her promise to remain commitment-free.

And, when Charlotte agrees to write an article for a popular women’s magazine about her Parisian dating adventures—or disasters, rather—will she risk losing the one man who’s swept her off her feet and her dream job in one fell swoop?


Author: Juliette Sobanet
Kindle Edition: 297 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-10-07) (2011-10-07)
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For most couples, a quiet dinner for two at Auberge de la Reine Blanche on the Ile Saint Louis would be just the thing to smooth out the complications in a romance. But for gorgeous Mossad operative Delilah and trying-to-retire contract killer John Rain, nothing is ever easy, and when Rain sees a crew of hard-looking men setting up outside the restaurant, he realizes someone has been bringing her work home with her. Is it a hit -- or something even worse? When it comes to killing, business and pleasure are the most dangerous mix of all.

This short story is about 8500 words, or a little under 40 pages in paper. The download comes with an essay called Personal Safety Tips from Assassin John Rain, which includes information that will be at least as valuable to civilians as it has been to Rain.

Author: Barry Eisler
Kindle Edition: 35 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Barry Eisler (2011-04-22) (2011-04-22)
List Price: $2.99
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Author: Vahram Muratyan
Hardcover: 224 pages
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2012-01-31) (2012-01-31)
ISBN: 0143120255
List Price: $20.00
Amazon Price: $11.34
Used Price: $11.35

Henri’s Walk to Paris is the story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head for the city. 

“Like many of us Henri wants to see Paris.

In Paris, there are thousands of buses. In Reboul, where Henri lives, there is only one bus.

In Paris there are many parks and rows and rows of trees. The park in Reboul has only five trees. In Paris there are many zoos full of animals for the people to see. 
So one fine day Henri packs up some lunch and starts off to see all the things he had read about.” 

Along the way, Henri gets tired and falls asleep under a tree. And this is when the story gets really charming. What Henri sees, we see, in a flowing panorama of pictures conceived by the eminent graphic designer Saul Bass. 

Author: Leonore Klein
Hardcover: 48 pages
Company: Universe (2012-02-14) (2012-02-14)
ISBN: 0789322633
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $12.89

Paris 2011 is one of a new series of travel guides for the Amazon Kindle, dedicated to providing you with top notch travel advice at an extremely reasonable price - welcome to 99¢ Cities!

This guidebook series is formatted as a periodical (like a magazine or blog) instead of a book. That means that you can quickly jump to the table of contents no matter where you are, and you can quickly skip from section to section, perfect for a guidebook!

This guide includes travel topics such as dining, shopping, accommodations, and transportation, maps and pictures of the city, notes on staying safe and healthy in Paris, a full length French phrasebook, and more. There is a substantial overview of the city, and each district (arrondissement) has a separate section with further details for the area.

Paris is best enjoyed on foot, letting you take your time in the historic cafes and on the broad boulevards of the City of Lights. Spend more time enjoying the city and less time fumbling through guidebooks with Paris 2011.


Author: Double Pixel Publications
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: Double Pixel Publications (2011-05-20) (2011-05-20)
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