Paris in 3 Days: What to Do, Where to Go and How to Plan Your First Trip

Paris is one of those cities everyone has an opinion about, which is exactly why we put off recording this episode for so long.

In this episode, we’re breaking down how we would plan a first trip to Paris if you have three or four days. This is the actual itinerary Lisa gives people when they ask what to do, based on our own trips, living there for six months and all the things we always go back to.

We talk about starting with a walking tour or a slightly ridiculous vintage Rolls-Royce tour, having a low-key picnic in Luxembourg Gardens, taking a Seine cruise at sunset and building in time for Saint-Chapelle, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré-Cœur and a few classic Paris food moments.

We also get into what is worth booking ahead, where Paris feels overwhelming, why you need to watch for pickpockets and why sitting at a café doing absolutely nothing is still one of the best things to do in the city.

In this episode we cover:

• How to plan 3 days in Paris
 • The best first-day activities in Paris
 • Luxembourg Gardens, Saint-Chapelle and the Seine
 • When to visit the Eiffel Tower
 • Why Montmartre is still worth it
 • Paris with kids and teens
 • Pickpocket tips and practical travel advice
 • A few favorite food stops, including La Dôme, La Rotonde, Homer and street crêpes

For more Paris travel guides, visit The Getawayz.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome back. I'm Lisa. And I'm Erin. And this is the Getaways Podcast. Hey. It is the Getaways Podcast, people. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_01 0:13

We've been putting this city off for a while.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Well, there's a lot of pressure about this city.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Yeah. And we've we've gone to it enough that it's I did dare I say like a second home?

SPEAKER_00 0:23

It's really not, but it's I lived there for six months, so I think I can call it a second home or a third home. But we're talking about Paris. Yes. Letting the cat out of the bag. But I think there's a lot of pressure because everybody goes there and has their own opinions about it. And if you haven't been there, you can't help but want to go there, right? It's one of the most iconic locations.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

It's probably like the number one tourist city in the world.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Yeah, and there's good reason for that. But it's also a very large city and it can be a bit overwhelming. So what we want to do today is just hone in on if you have three or four days, the things that we would suggest that you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

And this is literally the list or itinerary that Lisa gives anybody who asks.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Yeah. And it started with my sister came a few years ago, and we went to Paris for her first time. And really just she did a ton of research, and then I just told her what we were doing because I have such specific ideas about like what you should see there and what the experience should be.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

And how to get mo the most out of your time.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

And this is most of the stuff, a lot of the stuff you can do with kids, but later on we'll do one specifically aimed towards Paris with kids. There is a post up on the website now for Paris with teenagers because we have a lot of experience there, but that's not what this is today.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

And we're not going to spend too much time on food because we'll circle back to that, but we'll touch on a couple of our favorite things and places.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

We'll circle back with a real Parisian that can give you the local lowdown for foods.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

That's for you, Stefan, if you're listening. So should we just kick off? All right. So I think that we've talked about this before, but one thing that we like to do, especially when we're in a city for the first time or the first time in a long time, is do some sort of tour, whether it be a boat tour or we've done a lot of scavenger hunt kind of stuff. Yes. But so I think that's the same with Paris. I think starting off with a walking tour, which is what we did with my sister, or we did another kind of tour.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Before we moved to Europe. When we spent money much more freely. When we were still living in America with real full-time jobs, and we spent money. We had a vintage Rolls-Royce tour at night. At night. Which was amazing.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Yeah, it really was. And they had a bottle of champagne for us, and it was really special. Obviously, it wasn't even that raising Chris.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah, it was like 300 euros. But even my seven-year-old son at the time loved it.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Maybe it's because he felt fancy. How could you not? I mean, you're in Paris and you're in this beautiful car, and then he would stop and let us get out and take a picture. But I think just getting acclimated and getting a sense of things by doing some sort of tour like that when you hit the ground is important to just be able to enjoy the architecture too, because it is very specific. It's there in Bordeaux. It's really the only places that have that limestone. Yeah. And that that style of architecture that you really have to see and take your time to experience.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Yes. Gosh, beautiful city. Now I want to go back right now.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

I know. So as you're doing that sort of exploration, at some point, one of my favorite places to go and to take people, and you can go for a very short period of time or a longer period of time, but for a snack or lunch, is to go and have a picnic in Luxembourg Gardens.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

No, I've never done the picnic.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

And sit we got at Predamonger, not a you know fancy, and we just did takeaway sandwiches and went and sat. There's all those chairs that look at the cast, or I don't even know what that is, though it's a palace of some sort, right? Who'd you do this with? Lori.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

And and we just kind of sat and hung out.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

And then it's how was your sandwich?

SPEAKER_00 4:13

It did not make me feel good for those keeping track. The park is beautiful, it's completely perfectly maintained. There's a lake in the middle where kids will do the boats.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Is that the one where Dylan played on that giant in Saint Germain?

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Yeah. Okay. And it's very kid-friendly. There's tons of places for the kids to play. There are hours on the playgrounds, and you'd have to pay 50 cents to get in. And then it's also there is a, I don't know, I guess you wouldn't call it a duplicate. Maybe the original Statue of Liberty there that matches the one that the French gave to America, which is at Ellis Island. So there's a little, a smaller version of that there, which is just kind of cool to go and see and take a picture of. But it's just a beautiful walk-around.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Is that the park where you lost your phone?

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Yes. So this is I think we may have talked about this before. All right, I'm gonna give the abridged version because it is such a good story. So I was there with my nephew and his wife, and I don't even remember when it was, just not that long ago.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

We were in this house in two years.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

I just came in for the day to meet them, and we were we'd had a fantastic lunch, and then we were doing the tour of Luxembourg Gardens. And it was the weather was not warm, not cold, but enough for a light jacket, but a jacket that I don't wear all that often. And so we're walking and whatever, and my nephew's phone rings, and and he was like, It's Aaron, Lisa. And the first thing that I thought was, oh my God, something happened to Rex. And and he goes, Are you should I answer it? Do you want a minute? Do you want what do you want to do? And I was like, No, let me get my phone and see if she's been texting me too. But yeah, go ahead and answer. And I was like, hmm, I don't have my phone. And it was Aaron calling because she's the emergency contact on my phone, that I had dropped my phone, it had fallen out of the pocket of my jacket, and somebody had found it and taken it to the police in the middle of Paris.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Like crazy. And the it was the police calling me. Side note, everybody should put that emergency contact in your iPhone. Yeah. Because even if your phone's locked, they can get that number. So if you lose your phone, if you get seriously injured, it's there for a reason. But that's why Lisa got her iPhone back.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Yeah. So I walked into the police station and they're like, Lisa? And I was like, yes. And they pull out my phone and I had to just prove that I was me. But it was remarkable and crazy that in one of the most trafficked areas and cities in the world, like not as that anybody could have just taken it. It was just lying on the ground. Yeah. But anyway, that's that's an aside. But go to Luxembourg Gardens, is what I'm saying. Just and I suggest not losing your phone, but you might be okay if you do. Anything to add? No. Okay. So then I would suggest. So you've probably eaten away quite a bit of your day at that point. One thing that I think everybody has to do, preferably at sunset or just after sunset, is do the sun cruise. Oh, yes. It's cheesy, it's crowded.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Yeah, like.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

But it there's something just very magical about seeing Paris from the actual sun and going by the Eiffel Tower.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

That's the river that runs through Paris.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Yeah. You go right by the Eiffel Tower, and if you're there dark or sunset, you see it lit up from a perspective that you don't see anywhere else, really. Yeah, and you see Notre Dame. Notre Dame. It's just a really special way to see Paris. And it is. The boats are crowded, it's not expensive. You can book them at the moment.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

But if you book a Louvre ticket or an Eiffel Tower ticket, you can always get it attached to that. Yeah. It'll be Eiffel Tower with Seine Cruz. Yeah. Louvre with Seine Cruz. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

But they do go off every 15 minutes, different companies. So it's that is one of the things that you don't have to worry about actually getting on because there's so many.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

And you get to rest your feet because it's a lot of walking in Paris. So it's a nice hour of just sitting, enjoying the weather, having a glass of wine, looking at the sights.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Yeah. Really, really nice. And then, you know, day one is then pretty packed. But the other thing that I I like more than you is a cooking class.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Like I love there's so many baking classes. There's like, you know, baguettes and macarons and like fancier pastries. It's just, I think it's fun to learn something there and to take one of those classes.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

But I prefer to learn about cheese. I'm getting there. Well, I know that's day two. But that's where I like to spend my time. That's just eating and drinking part of learning.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Okay, so that's a pretty packed day day one. Yeah. Day two starts at one of my favorite places in Paris, and that's Saint-Chapelle, which is a little chapel not too far away from Notre Dame. And you may have seen pictures of it on Instagram and stuff, but it's stained glass from floor to ceiling, and it is absolutely spectacular. The only thing you should buy a ticket in advance, but the only thing that you should make sure of is that you are going in a time where the sun has been able to have enough time to get into the sky a little bit so that you can fully appreciate the stained glass. But it is it will blow your mind. It's unlike anywhere else I've ever been. No, I've never been there. You should go. I should try. You should be listening to this podcast and learn all about it. So then if you haven't been to Notre Dame, you should go, which is right down the street.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

It's quick.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Tickets are not easy right now because it's it just reopened.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

And it's not like you can book months in advance. It's two weeks out. Tickets go on sale at midnight. Is it two weeks out? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

It was it was I thought it was like 24 hours.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

I know because we got your tickets before we got before we got there.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

There.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

So maybe it's two weeks, it might be a week out. But it's just a certain amount of days out. Tickets go up at midnight and at midnight Paris time. And then it's just a matter of luck whether you get the tickets or not.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

And there will be a ginormous queue out in front.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Oh, even if you have tickets.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Oh yeah, well, you can still try and get in if you don't have a ticket.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

But so you could spend days waiting in line, or you could get up and at the crack of it and try and get them online. But it is spectacular. It is beautiful. It's definitely fresher since the renovation and since the damage of the fire and with having everything redone. But it is the exact same too. So there's not, if you've seen it before, it is definitely cleaned up and nicer. But but if you've never seen it, you you have to see it. It's you can spend 10 minutes there or you could spend two hours there. And it just depends on how much you want to kind of immerse yourself in it. I've been there several times and my sister had never been there, and we were out in 15 because it does get crowded too. Can you still go up to the top? You couldn't when I was there because it was still under peak renovation, like the top part renovation. Yeah. And that's not to say we didn't enjoy it. It's spectacular. It's just it does get crowded. And when it gets crowded, they like to keep you moving.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Yeah, no stopping.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Okay, now here's the big question.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Louvre or Muse Dorsey?

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Muse Dorsey.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Yeah. Okay, because here's the thing about the Louvre.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

The Louvre, you've got to go with, you've got to go in just even if it's just to see the Mona Lisa quick in, quick out. Well, if you have tickets. Everybody, I think you have to experience as a first time in Paris. It's like, but Musée Dorsey is so much better.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Well, here's the thing. If you're gonna go to the Louvre, A, you have to have tickets in advance. B, I think you either have to have a very specific plan about the pieces that you want to see. And if it is just the Mona Lisa, you should know that it's also quite small, that it's not really as big as everybody thinks it is. And everybody and their mother and brother are standing in front of it. So it's not easy to see a lot of the time either. But turn around.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Turn around and look at the picture behind it because it is it's like part, it's like one of the things of the Last Separate. The Last Separate. Yeah, it is gorgeous.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yeah. And that's not to say that you shouldn't go see the Mona Lisa, you should, but just understand the limitations of going to see it. So then if you want to see more, I mean, obviously the Louvre you can't cover in one day, you can't cover in three days, but there's so much stuff that's worth seeing there. But I would get a guide, or I would good, you know, have somebody take you in who knows it, who knows what's important to see, and and sort of makes quick about it. Yeah. Yeah. And then on the flip side is Musee D'Orsay, which is a museum that I fell in love with a long, long time ago, but it is much more consumable. It is completely doable in a couple of hours. It is incredibly less crowded. You still need to buy tickets in advance. They have exhibitions that are really, really interesting. I mean, you have to keep an eye on what's coming and going. But yeah, I mean, that's just that's my preference, is Musee d'Orsay, because I just think that it's a lot less pressure and you can actually like have the time to enjoy the art without feeling like you've got an agenda a mile long.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah, I went there because they had Hieronymous Bosch and I'd go anywhere with that, or Salvador Dali. I didn't spend a lot of time. Like museums is not really my thing. Right. So, but if I had to go, that's where I'd go. Or the Pompeie.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Yeah. Well, the new place, I say new, but it's a couple years old now, but it's the Louis Vuitton. And it's defin I mean, the architecture is for sure we're seeing is not easy to get to, but it is really special. The building is just absolutely amazing. And then they have huge big exhibitions. It's just it's a really cool place to see art, and they have really big artists and really interesting stuff. So if that's your bag, that's definitely somewhere to put on your list, too.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

All right, can we stop talking about museums? I'm kidding, I jest.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

So I've had one win and one lose on this next thing, and it is wine and cheese tasting.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Oh, I've only had a big win.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

No, I know. Go ahead. You talk about that one.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Well, when we went, Dylan was still young.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Like little, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Probably eight. And we did we booked this wine and cheese tasting, and it was in the basement of this restaurant. And when we got there, they're like, he can't come downstairs. And I was like, Oh, and the restaurant wasn't open on the upstairs, but they're like, he can just hang out up here. So he had his iPad and he was just hanging out in a Paris restaurant by himself while we were downstairs. It was probably like two hours.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah. The staff was with him, he wasn't by himself.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Yeah, yeah. It okay, it was probably like maybe 20 people at this very long time. Maybe, yeah. At most, it was like a banquet table, it was huge, yeah, but not but didn't look like a banquet table, it was like a vintage wood, beautiful front table. I want to have okay, yeah. It looked like a banquet table that Marie Antoinette had. And it was just loaded with cheese, and we probably tried five or six wines. Yeah, it was the best cheese taste, and we've done a lot of cheese tastings, and we've done a lot of wine tastings. The wine tasting, it was fine, but the cheese tasting and the pairing part was the best I've ever had.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

And it wasn't cheap. I mean, even back then, I think it was like 80 a person, but we were also very full when we left.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

Oh, it was a lot of cheese. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Poor Dylan was not, but but yeah, no, it was really good. And the the host or the guide did a really nice job of explaining everything. It was before I went to wine school, so I don't really know even what wines we tasted. Right. Yeah, fantastic. But yeah, no, it was really, really nice. And that link is on the website, probably, right? Yes. And then when I went with my sister, we did one that was absolutely terrible. So I did a wine and cheese tasting with my sister, which was half like walking history tour and half wine and cheese tasting. And yeah, it was bad. The guy was such a jerk that was the guide/slash host. So just make sure you check reviews and that you did you leave a review so people know? I did. Okay. And you always get mad about leaving bad reviews, but I think you have to.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

I feel like if I was as offended as you were coming home from that, I would have left a review.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yeah. I mean, the guy was just a He was a D-I-C-K. He was just rude.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Yeah. French.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Inappropriate. Oh, yeah. He was very French. But he was he was what I think people who haven't been here yet. Yeah. Yeah. And so not true because he is the only guy that I've ever had. I mean, he was like the stereotype of the jerky French guy. He was such a jerk. But anyway, point is read the reviews. It's definitely something fun to do, and it's very I mean, it's nice because you get an introduction to a lot of things, but you just have to make sure that you're going to one that's and there's plenty to choose from. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

But the one that we recommend that's definitely up. I might just do a whole post about it, just so everybody knows that's where I would go.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Because it's the most memorable one I've ever like it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Yeah. All right. So let's end day two with a little walkity walk on the Chandelysée because I think everybody has to see it. Yeah. And and a little cruise around the Arc de Triomphe. Just again, because you have to see it. Takes two seconds.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

But we haven't gone to the Eiffel Tower yet.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

We saw it from the boats.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

But you wouldn't suggest that people go up. I don't care. Do you care? I th I I've gone up like four or five times. It's a great view. I think it's part of being in Paris. It's stuff people go home and talk about. If you go in winter, you can ice skate up on the Eiffel Tower. There's a great thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

We could when we were there. We don't know if it's true post-COVID.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

There's a great bar at the top where you have a good view and you can look at. I if you if yeah, I would suggest going out.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Okay.

unknown 17:51

I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Yes, but you live there and you've been there and it's two hours from our house. Right, right. I think that going there, that's what the one thing. That is the one thing everybody, I feel like when they go to Paris, they expect. So I kind of feel like just seeing it from afar may not be enough. But you could pop that into the first day.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah. Well, and you can also when you buy your ticket for the elevator, you can go to a different platform. You can see, like if you're scared of heights or something, you can go to the lowest platform. You can kind of navigate your way of what you want to do. Up on one of the higher platforms, they have glass floors. That's just terrible. You love that part, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 18:26

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

But yeah, you can go to that old Iron Lady thing, but go to the Eiffel Tower. All right, but we're still done with day two, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:35

So you'll day two is your good your Champs Elyse is like the main boulevard. It has I think everybody knows what the Champs-Élysées is. Well, not I don't think my brother did when he came over. So you've got like little restaurants and cafes. When we very first moved here, I wanted to go there because it was one of the first five guys that opened. And that was just that was just the American, like missing American stuff. They have really nice hotels. We stayed on there twice. It's not great for kids or dogs because it's so crowded and there tends to be a little bit of a homeless population at night there. And it's so crowded, so it just doesn't feel great. They have it does end right at the Arc de Triomphe.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Arc de Triomphe.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

And yeah, so it's definitely a walk down. And Christmas, it's where the Christmas one of the Christmas markets is down the street. And it's the Arc de Triomphe on one side, and then the Fleur what's that park? Concorde.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

Oh, the Tuilarie? Tuilarie. But the Concord is the Place de Concorde is first and then the Tuilerie.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

And the Tuilarie is a great park for kids too. They have like rides, they have trampolines. It's fun. My Dylan and my niece loved it there.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

The other thing is when you're walking down the Champs-Élysées, this is new, but the Louis Vuitton Hotel and Museum are right there. Yeah. So you probably want to like cruise by and just take a little side trip over there to see that because it's pretty cool. All right, day three.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Yep, day three.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

You're not gonna like this, but the Monet Museum's pretty great.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Why go to the Monet Museum when you can go to Monet's house?

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Well, because most people aren't gonna have that time. But you can if you've got an extra day and you want to go down to what's the city?

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Geronnet.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Girvonet, you can go to Monet's house and gardens and see his paintings literally in real life. Because it's you could stand in the place where you know he was. It's pretty good. Have we talked about it? I don't not enough, I don't think. Oh, it's so good. I think we touched on it when we did the Normandy.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Uh-huh. Or Versailles, one of the two. Because it's literally like an hour from Versailles.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

So it's close to Paris. It could be a day trip, but it is it's magical.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Okay. So after Monet, Soccer Court, and Mamantre. You got it?

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Oh, definitely. There's a great Salvador Dali Museum up here.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Yes. Yeah. So you have to, okay. I think we can all picture it, but it's sort of the big church on the hill in Paris. All white, very domey roof. I mean, there's several dome peaks and a big staircase in front of it that leads up to it. So it's not the easiest thing to get to. You can get to the metro. You can take the metro and then, you know, climb up the stairs. It's not simple. And it's also right above, well, not right above, but Moulin Rouge is quite close to it.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Stand at Moulin Rouge, look up, you can see it. Yeah. The beautiful walk down from there, back down to Paris.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

But up there is really the heart of the current art world. Yeah, it's very cool. It's, you know, there's the square with the artists where there's a lot of caricatures and there's a lot of, you know, landscape and a lot of the Eiffel Tower, but it's still just cool.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

It's yeah, you feel like you're already and you're in a whole different world when you're up there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

And it is. There's little tiny alleys. There's no cars up there, little tiny alleys and cute. Cafes where you can sit outside and you know, like I said, the square with the artists. And we went into this little ceramic shop that was just beautiful. That's where Lori got the Easter eggs. Oh, okay. But there's just all kinds of, I mean, it's it's there's still the touristy aspect, but it's not like you're not going to find HM up there. It's all very artistic and a little bit more special.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

They have a little train. Oh, yeah. That takes you all around the area up there that I like to do the little train tours. So that's something that I would suggest. Well, and also for people half an hour.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Yeah. And also for people who aren't terribly mobile, it takes the edge off because it is pretty steep, steep up there.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

It was pouring when we did it. So it was a nice reprieve from the rain.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Right. And then Sakura, which is the actual cathedral up there. And it is the last time I was up there, there was a huge line to get in, and people were not dressed appropriately. People would wait an hour to get in. It was hot. It was June, and it was probably 33 degrees. So probably between 80 and 90 degrees. And people were getting turned away because they were wearing like hot pants and showing their shoulders.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yeah, and flip-flops.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

And flip, yeah. And you have to be dressed appropriately. And I'm not sure what the ticket situation is there because I've never bought tickets. I just I walked in the time that I went. Um you do have to be aware of pickpocketers in that area in particular. It I it's it happened to me twice that somebody tried to do something.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

And in Rome, in Italy and France, don't let people put bracelets on your hands. Right. People are gonna come up and try to start conversations with you. Just don't do it.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Yeah, don't engage at all because they're fast and they're smart and they're sneaky.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

And you're not in danger, but you're in danger of losing stuff. Yeah. That's in any metropolitan city. I mean, it happens in New York too, but it's just it's gonna ruin your day. Yeah, you know, and you don't need that. Keep your passports and your wallets secure.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Or yeah, or your passports locked in a safe and have a picture of it on your phone, which is an important thing that not everybody does.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Yeah, make sure you have ID.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Yeah, and and a picture of everything on your phone as backup just to cover yourself no matter what the situation is.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

But cops sometimes do stop people and they want to see your passport, so they'll accept it on your phone, correct? Yeah. So just have it because it happens in Italy, it happens in France, yeah, it happens here in Amsterdam. Just sometimes randomly, they just want to check and make sure that you're here legally and not a creep.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Yep. Creep's allowed. So yeah, so I definitely would recommend like you could spend probably a good couple hours, if not half a day, by the time you get there, take a walk around the artistic part, see Soccer Car. You probably want to eat.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

You know what's right across the street from Soccer Car. The the giant macaron. How do you say it? Macaron. Macaron store. I do not like those things. Macaron? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Do you like Macaron? I do. I wish you could stay in office. All right. That's all I have for day three because then it's sort of like I would left the second half of the day or the hours left for sort of the pickup of anything that you need to do, like a walk around Saint-Michel or Saint-Germain, or you know, getting a drink or you know, being French, sitting down and watching people parade in front of you. That's what she should be doing in front.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

If you're there another day, you could go to Versailles for the day. We have a whole episode on Versailles.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

But that is a day. That is you would have to be there the whole day. Yeah. Do you want to talk about the best restaurant?

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Oh well, you didn't Moulin Rouge is an experience. Yeah. This is what I would do.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

This is things like I I don't think to me, it's not a must-do in their first time.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Right. I guess if we wanted to just kind of talk about all the things we loved, we'd be here all day. So we'll just keep it at this itinerary. Yeah, I would say I'll we'll we're gonna have Stefan on and do a whole restaurant and food and drink thing for Paris. But I would say if you're a fan of Anthony Bourdain, La Dome, even for a drink, is fantastic. And if you go before the dinner hour, you can get a nice table on the patio without having a reservation to have a drink. And they're the coolest people.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Yeah, I find. It's a special place, even if you don't care about Anthony Bourdain. The restaurant is stunning. Yeah. I mean, it's really, really beautiful. It was kind of a bucket list thing for me to go. Like I'd always, always, always wanted to go there. It's, you know, it just drips culture and it and it's it's beautiful. It's the history of the minds that have been there before you is breathtaking. I think that's why, and I don't remember, I don't know why I remember this moment so clearly, but I think one of the places I said Saint-Chapelle earlier is one of my favorite places, but I remember walking there and looking down and being like, oh my gosh, I can't even begin to wrap my head around how many people have stepped right here before me that are like in history books. Yeah. You know, I mean, there's just something very like it's crazy that there's just that much history and that much, you know, between wars and leaders and historic figures and artists and writers. Like that's how I feel in Florence, too, and Rome.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Yeah. Okay, so it's pricey. La Dome. Yeah. There's a restaurant right across the street. I think it's also famous. It's a round building, it's called La Reton. And we ate there because we couldn't get into La Dome, I think, or it was too expensive. But it's good. They have a great seafood tower. It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Yeah. Well, that's one thing you have to do no matter where you go in Paris, is that if you're a seafood person, you have to get a tower somewhere because Yeah, we did that with Dylan's first time. Yeah, I mean, that's to me is just part of the experience, too. You know?

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Another place that it's fairly new, but being over here, I've missed lobster rolls, and there's a place called Homer. They have two locations. I mean, you've got to admit those lobster rolls were fantastic. Oh. I didn't love them at all. So you don't really like butter.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I do like lobster though.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

But there was a lot of butter. Yeah. So good. Definitely Homer. And then if you don't like museums, I would always choose to go to the cemetery with Jim Morrison over a museum. That's me.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

It's also not easy to get to. So you've got to make sure that you've got plenty of time and you probably want to get a car because it's just a lot faster than taking the metro.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Yeah. So there's so much more to talk about and so much more to do in Paris, but this is just like the abridged version. If you're going for three days, here's Lisa's what Lisa would plan for you.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because honestly, like, you know, the more we talk, I'm like, but wait, we there's the here and there's there. And I mean, and you know, there's a whole fashion trip to do too. And all of the fashion, the major fashion houses have museums there. So there's so much, but this is this was my kickoff.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

And when you're walking around the areas, you got to go into a la gallery Lafayette. I don't know if anybody cares about this, but Monoprix, one of my favorite places to go in.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

And I know everyone thinks that this is not oh, I don't know, maybe projecting, but getting a crep on the street. So the only way to do it is you have to, especially if it's cold. There's nothing better than a steaming hot crepe and walking down the street and shoving it in your pie hole. But like things like that are just very part of the experience, I guess. You know?

SPEAKER_01 29:35

But I will say the most important thing to do if you're in Paris is find a little cafe that is at a place where you just love looking around and sit outside, all the chairs face to the street, and just have some cocktails or some coffee and just soak it in because it is so beautiful and just such a great vibe.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. All right. I think we have to shut up before we before we become an epic.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

We're gonna be in Paris and in two hours.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

But like we said, we'll come back with other episodes on Paris. But if you have questions in the meantime, let us know.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Check out the website www.thegetawayswith.com, and we'll see you next week. Thanks for listening. Bye.