Whether you’re British, American, Canadian or Australian, you won’t need a visa to visit Paris as a tourist. Your passport is perfectly sufficient to gain entry to France, allowing you to stay in the country for up to ninety days within a six month period.
Brits, of course, can stay much longer than anyone else. Residents [...]
Cycling is a great way to see more of Paris - and since July 2007 the ambitious ‘Velib‘ scheme allows anyone to hire a bike straight off the city’s street corners.
The scheme has made some 20,000 bicycles available for general hire from more than a thousand road-side bike stations, which are located as little as [...]
The Paris Metro is cheap, fast and practical - all in all, it’s by far the best way to get around the city. 14 metro lines connect more than 380 stations, scattered across Paris’ twenty arrondissements. The stations are very densely packed throughout the city - some barely a few hundred metres apart - ensuring [...]
A one way ticket on the metro now costs €1.50, allowing for one journey to any point on the network (and including any necessary connections). A better option is to buy in bulk - ask for a carnet (pronounced ‘car-nay’) and you’ll receive ten tickets at a discounted rate of €11.10. The tickets don’t become [...]
According to official records, the population of Paris is around 2.2 million people - making it a relatively small capital by global standards. But these figures only count Parisians living within the 20 arrondissements that make up the city proper - they don’t cover the dense web of suburbs that stretch out from the capital’s [...]
