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went for my wedding anniversary last year, pretty much the best trip we've done barely edging out NYC
-subway will take you anywhere you need to go, literally. easy to navigate and they run like every 4 mins. All day pass is like $1.50(back in dec2017 though)
-Bercy Village, recommend this if you are missing home with a french twist, they've got some small shops, takes on american restaurants, mainly burgers. and a movie theater that has everything from a bar, ice cream parlour and of course popcorn. I'm a huge movie-goer so it was def cool to watch and see differences with watching a french audience.
-Rue Cler, which is this huge marketplace where you can go to the butcher, buy fresh fish, produce, and general stores. We ate out but I also cooked some great french dishes for dinner.
-The Louvre is a BEAST, we weren't ready, I think of the 4 hours we spent there, 30 mins was for the mona lisa, 3 hours and 30mins was us just being lost. Enter at your own risk, but get there early and buy passes ahead of time. Musee d'orangie is better IMO, we showed up 2 hours before they closed waited in a long line and still saw everything before they kicked us out
-Get Chocolates at "A L'Etoile D'or" Chick thats owns it is like the oldest most well known chocolatier in Paris. She lives upstairs above the store comes down and opens it. Makes it a point to talk and interact with every customer before the leave with their purchase, regardless of if you speak french or not, she was really nice.
-Catacombs was real cool.
-eat at Le Train Bleu,
-Go to Musee' Des Arts Forains, This place was featured in "Midnight in Paris" a lot of the stuff we did also included visiting places from the movie. you need to book in advance. my wife failed to tell me this before we arrived because they got to buzz you in, so when they buzzed someone in, naturally we just went in and I just started taking pictures and even helped an employee by holding the door before the owner came up to us and asked who the hell were we
we were there a good 45 minutes though before they kicked us out. This prompted us to go to Bercy Village.
-Not sure if it's an all year thing or christmas thing but the Eiffel lit up every hour with these shimmering lights
got more info, but there's so much to do, everyone is giving you a great spread.
have fun
-subway will take you anywhere you need to go, literally. easy to navigate and they run like every 4 mins. All day pass is like $1.50(back in dec2017 though)
-Bercy Village, recommend this if you are missing home with a french twist, they've got some small shops, takes on american restaurants, mainly burgers. and a movie theater that has everything from a bar, ice cream parlour and of course popcorn. I'm a huge movie-goer so it was def cool to watch and see differences with watching a french audience.
-Rue Cler, which is this huge marketplace where you can go to the butcher, buy fresh fish, produce, and general stores. We ate out but I also cooked some great french dishes for dinner.
-The Louvre is a BEAST, we weren't ready, I think of the 4 hours we spent there, 30 mins was for the mona lisa, 3 hours and 30mins was us just being lost. Enter at your own risk, but get there early and buy passes ahead of time. Musee d'orangie is better IMO, we showed up 2 hours before they closed waited in a long line and still saw everything before they kicked us out
-Get Chocolates at "A L'Etoile D'or" Chick thats owns it is like the oldest most well known chocolatier in Paris. She lives upstairs above the store comes down and opens it. Makes it a point to talk and interact with every customer before the leave with their purchase, regardless of if you speak french or not, she was really nice.
-Catacombs was real cool.
-eat at Le Train Bleu,
-Go to Musee' Des Arts Forains, This place was featured in "Midnight in Paris" a lot of the stuff we did also included visiting places from the movie. you need to book in advance. my wife failed to tell me this before we arrived because they got to buzz you in, so when they buzzed someone in, naturally we just went in and I just started taking pictures and even helped an employee by holding the door before the owner came up to us and asked who the hell were we
we were there a good 45 minutes though before they kicked us out. This prompted us to go to Bercy Village.
-Not sure if it's an all year thing or christmas thing but the Eiffel lit up every hour with these shimmering lights
got more info, but there's so much to do, everyone is giving you a great spread.
have fun
Looks like I'm def gonna have plenty to do in 4 days might not even have time for Italy. 
