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  • 23. Scene of the crime

     So we found ourselves in yet another Paris bar drinking house red. Unusual I know. And to be honest we thought it was tres ordinaire – until I found myself talking to some locals. La Perle has been a famous fashionista hangout for years – like one hundred years – and is total facehunter territory. Like…

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  • 22. Finally had one of these

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  • 21. Love letter to Hotel du Petit Moulin

    I can not tell you how much I love this funny little hotel. Nestled on the corner of Rue de Poutou in the bosom of the Marais district, this 17th century building, the site of an ancient bakery, has been completely renovated. For me.  Well perhaps it was renovated for some other people too, but…

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  • 20. I’m sure someone was watching

    Felt very secretly royal tonight. We threw ourselves at Paris, as we’re back on the Eurostar to London late tomorrow.  We went for a cruise on the Seine (strangely only ten people shared our boat, although the other boats seemed packed), took a spin on a carousel  with lots of wooping and giggling (very exclusive,…

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  • 19. Two million people and none of them lost with us

    I like to think it’s a special skill of ours, being able to make finding the toilet in a large public structure such an adventure. We ended up on Level -2, just me and Stu , waiting for the laser beams to set off the alarms and bring on the swat teams. They might have…

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  • 18. Bed for six madame?

    So we found ourselves at a hotspot called Derrriere for dinner. It’s fair to say, we were reasonably oblivious that it was a hot spot til well after the event. I think that’s the antenna that secret royalty are born with (sort of like a gaydar but for a different kind of appetite). A quirky…

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