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Foreword to Pocketbook Edition for the 2024 Olympics

100 years after its last appearance in Paris, the Olympic Flame returns to the City of Light, becoming only the second city, along with...

Paris Left & Right Bank - Bateau Lavoir & Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Picasso on the Right Bank - Bateau Lavoir There were two gravitational pulls for the École de Paris painters who flourished from the...

Paris The Left Bank - Gertrude Stein

As the plaque at the front of this otherwise non-descript bourgeois building still attests, the American writer and aesthetic...

Paris The Right Bank - Au Caveau Montpensier

Socialising today is all bright lights and big city, penthouses and setting suns and Instagrammable moments of people wearing skimpy neon...

Paris The Right Bank - Le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

Le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont will be immediately recognisable to fans of the legendary TV sitcom Friends, as the colourful 1885 poster of...

Paris The Right Bank - Bourse de Commerce

In a city already over-flowing with world-renowned museums, one could justifiably wonder was there room for any more? And yet the past 10...

Paris The Right Bank - Les Passages

Beloved of 19th century flaneurs, les Passages de Paris live on across the Right Bank with over 20 covered arcades open to the public...

Paris The Right Bank - Centre Pompidou

If exposed pipework is all the rage with designers today, back in 1977 it was something of a shock to aesthetes when the Centre Georges...

Paris The Right Bank - Fondation Louis Vuitton

A relatively recent arrival on the landscape of the Paris art world, the Fondation Louis Vuitton opened to much fanfare in 2014. Almost...

Dublin - Saint Patrick

20% off all Flaneur's Guide for March 2024 when you use coupon code "PADDYWHACKERY24" There is plenty we don’t know about Patrick but one...

Paris The Right Bank - Chopin

For Romantic Flaneurs, Valentine's Day, 14th February 2024 When it comes to Romanticism, he is, as they say, the pure drop. Born Fryderyk...

Paris The Right Bank - Hôtel de la Marine

If the addition of two new museums on the Right Bank over the past decade were not enough (that is to say: the Fondation Louis Vuitton...

Paris The Right Bank - Rue Montorgueil

If you find yourself near the old Les Halles markets (which is now a revamped state-of-the-art multi-story shopping mall), you might...

Paris The Right Bank - Sainte Chappelle

If waiting in line to get into the Sainte-Chapelle can sometimes feel like the via dolorosa itself, it is worth the wait and possibly...

Paris The Right Bank - Faubourg Saint-Honoré

Taken together, the rue Saint-Honoré and the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré measure 3.8 kilometres and so form the longest street on the...

Paris The Right Bank - Palais Royal

Photographers of all hues could easily get lost in the very photogenic Palais Royal and end up spending the day here, or even their...

Paris The Right Bank - La Belle Hortense

A Flaneur's Guide to Paris The Right Bank is now published and available here: https://www.aflaneursguide.com/product-page/paris-the-righ...

Dublin - Dún Laoghaire

Suburbs tend to get a bad rap these days but the experience of Dublin is as much about its outlying areas as the city itself. One of the...

Dublin - Grafton Street

If footfall is the golden metric of bricks and mortar retailers then Grafton Street has it all. Pedestrianised to much fanfare in 1983...

Dublin - Sweny's Pharmacy

Venue for the Launch of... Paris Special Edition - A Flaneur's Guide The Left Bank & Right Bank SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH 1:00PM to 3:00PM...