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Although a
non-commercial site, we think it could be useful to mention goods
and services available to the American (and English-speaking)
community in Paris and which could correspond to some of the
needs of the visitors of the site, in addition to our favorite
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Here are some examples,
most of them are American-run businesses :
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Travel
- Travel and general
information portal about France covering an oincreasingly
wide range of topics
- Lost-in-France : Online magazine for expats anywhere in France,
lively discussion forum, articles, help & advice, directory
of English speaking trades & businesses, holiday accommodation,
online photo albums, classifieds, chess and much more. All Welcome!
- A good site
for Japanese visitors in Paris...
- Anita Owens-Bertuzzi has an
interesting site (for French people) to plan an unusual trip to
the U.S.A...
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Misc. |
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- Enjoy your stay in Paris serenely
thanks to Easymetros,
the metro map that speaks to you. With this ingenious device,
don't be lost any longer in metro, RER and tramway in PAris and
suburbs!
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Public
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- Paris Guide : your Paris travel guide to all that there is to see when visiting the city of light.
- A Paris Travel - a good source for group tours, private tours, and trip planning for your travel to France.
- Paris Travel Guide :Travel guide to Paris, tourist information, hotels and maps.
- Visit
Paris on a bike with Mike's
Bike Tours
- Paris Through Expatriate Eyes : insider cultural tours for small discerning
groups
- See the Paris and France few
visitors ever see, driven in comfort with a cultured, multilingual
guide. Paris
Luxury Tours evinces those qualities of France that are dear
to the entire world and makes them accessible to visitors who
may not speak French.
- Visit Paris in a cute 2 CV (the"sardine-can"
car)
- Discover some of the most beautiful
monuments of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tour, the Louvre or the
Notre-Dame Cathedral on a sightseeing boat
tour on the river Seine
- Visit the city's
great museums
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Guides
& tours
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Products, activities and English-speaking businesses
in Paris
- An American webstore: "The 1-stop online shopping for your American food and goodies"
- Enjoy a glass of Champagne at Flutebar Etoile
- Founded by two former network news television correspondents,
BoomerCafé
is an
online site for active baby boomers with tips on money, health,
relationships and a good living and literary section.
- Parisdom.biz : relocation, tourist and legal services
- The directory
of English-speaking businesses in and for France that embraces
all aspects of life in France including buying & maintaining
property, finance, the law, services, tourism for English-speakers
living in or visiting France The guide to service providers for
residents, property buyers and tourists listing contacts to resolve
your everyday problems.
- PoloRoom is a nice Restaurant and Martini Bar,
close to the Champs Elysées, run by Ken Hood.
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American-run
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- New services for parents and part-time job positions for students available! Baby-speaking provides baby-sitting services exclusively in foreign languages, by selected and trained foreigners. The frame of the service is supervised by a team of researchers in child bilingualism.
- Looking for an Anglophone music
school in Paris?
- A club for people interested
in wine
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- Shopping
and touring information to Paris, the French provinces and other
destinations
- Intelligent shopping in France...
- Attend an auction
Salle Drouot, every day...
- French
for a Day program : Cooking class with Sue Young
- Courses in scented candlemaking
in english.
- The first English-speaking concierge
in Paris !
- Play
paintball near Paris ! Paintball-connexion
(2, bis rue Victor Hugo 95650 Boissy l'Aillerie Tel : 01.34.42.68.68
Fax : 01.34.42.76.36) offers 50 free balls to the visitors of
this Website !
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Activities |
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Property & Rental
- Best French Mortgage
arranges fuss-free French mortgages for all type of real estate.
On-line applications, no fees to clients
- IFP,
the largest French property portal
- The French Connexions
Agency helps anglophones relocate and settle in the Languedoc
region.
- Homehunts are property search specialists for french property
in towns and villages along the French Riviera: French properties
to buy in Monaco Antibes, St Tropez, Marseille, Toulon and Perpignan.
- A complete guide
to French property
and life
in France
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Buy! |
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- Paris-Travel
is a booking department of hotels in Paris: Parisian charming
hotels, online bookings and special offers, you'll find all the
informations to spend a wonderful stay in Paris.
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Reserve! |
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Services
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- View your US postal
mail online, from anywhere around the world
- Hand-on cooking school
- Student exchange, with ELCD, an organization in the South-West
of France, to facilitate
direct individual homestay exchanges and homestays only between
students or people of all ages and from all walks of life.
- PATH,
headed by Dr. Will Clower, author of The Fat Fallacy, is a weight
loss plan inspired by French cultural eating habits. The PATH
is a 13-week course showing how Americans can adapt those healthy
habit to life in our rapid fire culture - and lose weight
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Misc. |
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Outside Paris
- A forum for expat horse lovers in Normandy
- News, events and factual resources
of the Poitou
Charentes region.
- The Anglophone library
of Montpellier has over 25,000 English language books, DVD's
etc .. available for loan
- An unusual vacation
spot in the Perigord : inward journeys and alfresco fun (yoga,
meditation, hiking,...) and photo meditation
from the French countryside
- Chateau Coulon Laurensac offers luxury Bed & Breakfast and
2 self catering gites at just 5 km from Bordeaux. An ideal base
for exploring the vineyards. Wine tastings and wine day and week
tours proposed.
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- Maison Conti : beautiful "chambres d'hôtes" (Bed & Breakfast) in Montmirail, less than 2 hours West of Paris
- Dordogne In English
- Directory of English speaking business in the Dordogne area
of France. Helps residents and visitors find accommodation, rent
or buy houses and property, contact tradesman, professionals,
banks, insurance and problem solvers discover tourist and leisure
attractions
- Wine and culinary tours in the Bordeaux region, based at Chateau
Coulon Laurensac
- Guide to France including regions, towns, places of interest,
activities and events. Includes travel information.
- 3 beautiful gites in the sunniest
region in France (which is NOT Provence)
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Please email
me and help to complete
this list and let me know if any of these links does not work
! I'll check the address and remove the link if useless...
To related pages : favourite links,
Paris For Americans,
etc...
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Harriet Welty
Rochefort writes articles and books about France and the French.
Order her books:
- "French Toast, An American in Paris
Celebrates The Maddening Mysteries of the French", St.Martin's Press,
New York, 1999
- "French Fried, The Culinary Capers
of An American in Paris", St.Martin's Press, New York, 2001
More on Harriet's
books
(excerpts, upcoming events, testimonials, etc..)
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