Skip to content
ParisVoice

ParisVoice

The webzine for English speaking Parisians

  • Home
  • Paris
    • Practical Paris
    • Paris Selections
    • Vintage Q & A
  • Discover
    • Travel
    • Guides
    • Books on France
  • Art
  • Photo
  • Stage
  • Trending
    • Features
    • Style
  • Archives
    • Story Archives 1986-1997
    • Web Archives 1998-2004
  • About
  • Connect

Author: Martin Hills

Posted on September 27, 2011March 23, 2017

Weekend Away: Avignon

Paris offers enough diversity to satisfy the most demanding tastes, but it is also the best starting point from which to explore the rest of France and, indeed, of Europe.  Starting a new series of suggestions of places interesting enough to justify a weekend trip, Martin Hills finds Avignon  Continue reading “Weekend Away: Avignon”

Paris Snapshots

Featured

  • The Latin Quarter Revisited
    Discovering the 5 & 6th district Romantic myths of Left Bank intelligentsia which date back …
  • Loire Plein Air Painting Workshop
    Treat yourself to a week of water color painting taught by Paul George (May 27-June …
  • Tasty Tips…French Aperitifs
    Terrace weather is here and having a drink at a strategically placed people-watching café is …
  • Paris by it’s Writers
    Much of Paris’ romantic patina comes from tales told by writers who have lived here. …

Some great books

  • Trish’s French Kitchen
    The French have an enormous passion for their food... for cooking it, shopping for it …
  • Jean-Christophe Rufin’s “Globalia”
    A scintillating tale of derring-do set in France’s distant colonial past, written by, wait for …
  • “Paris Primitive” by the Seine
    This new book  by Sally Price explores the story behind the creation of Paris’ newest …
  • The Art Lover’s Guide to Paris 
    A great book by veteran Paris reporter Ruby Boukabou — “The Art Lover’s Guide to …

Top stories from past

  • In Vogue and Deja Vu
    I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but in the year since starting …
  • Strolling Canal St Martin
    Napoléon Bonaparte, wanting to do something for the Parisians, was told by Interior Minister Jean-Antoine …
  • Merry Month of May Getaways
    Long days, mild weather and an army of jours fériés make May ideal for weekend …
  • A Woody Allen in Paris
    We knew he could play the clarinet, write and direct like nobody’s business, act a …

Categories

  • Archives
  • Archives 97-86
  • Art
  • Books on France
  • Features
  • Guides
  • Movies
  • Music
  • New books
  • On Stage
  • Paris Q & A
  • Paris Selections
  • Photography
  • Practical Paris
  • Style and shopping
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Voice Section 1

Beau Paris

  • La fontaine Médicis

  • Jardin du Luxembourg

  • La fontaine Stravinsky

  • La fontaine Stravinsky

  • Seine night view

  • IMG_0767

  • IMG_2261

  • IMG_3712

  • Red cat, Paris XIIème

  • Galeries Lafayette

  • IMG_0721

Recent Posts

  • Inventing Haute Couture
  • Danish House “Double Mirror”
  • Posters as Urban Art

RSS FRANCE 24 – INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7

  • French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal won't appeal sentence, hopes for pardon
  • Parisians take their first plunge into the Seine in more than a century
  • Controversial West African activist Kemi Seba detained in Paris
  • Top contemporary French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76
  • France’s new health pass rules raise questions as many scramble to adapt
  • In search for French heroes, Macron blunders – again
  • France makes 323 arrests since start of Euro 2016 championship
  • ‘France is your homeland’, Hollande tells French Jews
Proudly powered by WordPress
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}