Parisian Pursuits

A comprehensive list of all I aspire to do, see, taste, listen, and experience in Paris:

  • Dine on the Eiffel Tower
  • Ride a bicycle on the streets of Paris and live to tell the tale
  • Attend the Moulin Rouge show
  • Visit the Pere Lachaise Cemetery: visit Jim Morrison (The Doors), Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and more
  • Shop at all the designer shopping outlets in Paris (yes, there are outlets in Paris)
  • Score a designer vintage piece at a flea market
  • Have a picnic at the Eiffel Tower
  • Stalk at Paris Fashion Week
  • Creep through the Catacombs throughout Paris
  • Go to mass every Sunday at Notre Dame
  • Play Cinderella at Paris Fashion Week; can I get blogged?
  • Eat a crepe; a Nutella one preferably
  • Visit 12 other countries
  • Go to the love padlocks in Paris
  • Purchase macarons from the infamous Laduree on the Champs d’Elysees
  • Stalk every designer couture house atelier
  • Stroll in the Luxembourg Gardens, like the childhood character Madeline
  • Be a kid again and go to Disneyland Paris
  • Go to the Grand & Petit Palais
  • Visit the Musee d’Orsay to see some Monet and Renoir impressionist art
  • Buy something from Shakespeare & Co. that dates back no later than 1950
  • Go to as many jazz clubs as possible
  • Try to attend one cooking class; get in touch with my inner Julia Child
  • Climb the Eiffel Tower
  • Stand on the top of l’arc de triomphe
  • Pay a visit to Mona Lisa at le Louvre
  • Visit Marie Antoniette’s quarters and Sacre Coeur in Montmartre
  • Buy an authentic painting from a local artist
  • Attend a Paris Ballet (as a past dancer’s dream)
  • Enjoy some frog legs, escargot, French onion soup, and foie gras
  • Purchase an amazing hat (no one wears fashionable hats in Canada)
  • See a French playwright at the Theatre… in French
  • Visit the Museum des Arts Decoratifs, documenting French design
  • Glimpse an Andy Warhol at the Museum, Centre Pompidou
  • Enjoy the opera at Bastille
  • Visit the restaurant made famous by the film Amelie

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