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What We Love The Most About Paris, The City Of Lights

8 Of My Favorite Things About Paris

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Oct 18, 2020
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Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder, and our extended time away from Paris these past several months has me appreciating all the City of Light has to offer more than ever.

Lief and I are counting down the days until our return to that side of The Pond… and reminding ourselves of the things we enjoy most about spending time in the world’s most beautiful city… including…

#1: The Café Culture

Paris apartments may be small, but you don’t notice because the city is an extension of your living space. Within a 15-minute walk of our apartment are at least 30 cafés, meaning we’re spoiled for choice and never have to go out of our way for un café or une coupe… and where you can linger as long as you like, watching the passing show, without anyone minding.

#2: The Food

Not only because it’s reliably good in restaurants but also because it’s fresh and healthy everywhere. You have to work hard to eat badly in Paris. Corner shops don’t offer nachos, hot dogs, and slushies but hams, cheeses, and fresh fruit and produce. Big grocery stores where you can shop for anything you might want from anywhere in the world are complemented by farmers’ markets offering locally grown vegetables in season.

#3: The Wine

You can buy a drinkable bottle of wine in any grocery for 5 euros or less, and every corner store carries champagne options, as well as good choices for red and white.

#4: The Walking

I’ve told you about the cafés. In addition, within a 15-minute walk of our apartment (and most anyone else’s, too) are a dozen or more grocer’s, bakeries, cheese shops, dry cleaners, restaurants, banks, ATMs, parks, gardens, antique shops, bookstores, movie theaters, and Metro stops… plus at least one or two tailor’s, dress-makers, fabric stores, hardware stores, and any other kind of shop you could ever need to manage your life day-to-day.

Running errands is the highlight of my day in Paris. It’s an excuse to do what I want to do more than anything else anyway—go out for a walk.

#5: The Shopping

Not only that it’s ever-present and you can buy anything you might wake up on any given day with a whim to buy without going too far out of your way, but also because shopping can be your best chance to engage with your local community. The French have their versions of U.S.-style big-footprint stores (including Carrefour, Leroy Merlin, Conforama, and Decathlon, for example), but, in some neighborhoods, your shopping options also include tiny boutique shops offering specific and specialty items. If you’re so inclined and have the time, you can spend many pleasant days entertaining yourself with a search for the ideal kitchen broom or the perfect pair of black boots.

#6: The Public Transportation

Paris is no place to keep a car. The best way to get around is on your own two feet, both because Paris is best appreciated at street level but also because walking everywhere helps keep you fit and trim without trying.

When you want to venture beyond your neighborhood or, indeed, beyond Paris, a good public transportation choice is likely a quick walk away. For 1 euro and 90 cents (a little more than US$2), you can buy a Metro ticket to take you from one end of the city to the other. The RER will deliver you to Paris’ outlying suburbs, as well as Charles de Gaulle airport, Disneyland Paris, and Versailles.

In addition, Paris has six train stations, each serving different regions of France and Europe, and the most user-friendly city bus system I know.

#7: The Lack Of Storage Space

When we first moved to Paris, years ago, when our children were small, I moaned and groaned about the lack of closet, pantry, basement, attic, and general storage space. I worked creatively to put every single one of the 112 square meters of our apartment to maximum efficient use, storing shoes in bins under the beds and out-of-season clothing in suitcases.

Now I’m thankful for our cozy home… especially after having spent the past four months helping Lief help his mother clear out decades of accumulated stuff in her four-bedroom house with a basement, attic, and garage. The downsizing challenge was considerable. In Paris, you’re permanently downsized.

#8: The City Itself

Central Paris is a living, breathing museum packed with all of my favorite things… from bookstores and antique shops to some of the world’s most beautiful buildings and most visited museums… plus parks and formal gardens, cobblestoned courtyards and ancient churches. Even after years or decades calling Paris home, every chance to step outdoors is rewarded with discovery of the best kind.

Sincerely,
Kathleen Peddicord
Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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