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Expresso machine.
Published on Mon, 24 Mar
I added a new expresso maker in the apartment. It does excellent expressos with a real flavor. A pleasure when coming back from a long Louvre visit! The machine is a Delonghi EC155, it uses a 15 bars pressure pump.
New LCD TV
Published on Mon, 17 Mar
I added a new LCD TV in the apartment. This means more comfort to watch news or movies... Remember you have access to foreign country channels: CNN, Bloomberg, Euronews, CNBC Europe, Sky News, BBC World, Rai (Italian), TVE (Spanish) ...
Non Smocker Paris
Published on Mon, 07 Jan
From january 1st 2008, any public places in France are non smocker.
Good news, it is now a pleasure to stay in bars, cafés, restaurants, etc.
Follow a rat in Paris!
Published on Mon, 15 Oct
The City of Paris invites you to follow some trails within the shooting of famous movies.
The rat Ratatouille wants to work with famous chef Gusteau, but is there a restaurant with this name? Where does the inspiration comes from?
Download the pdf guide from the City to know more about Ratatouille and Paris.
Guides are also available for Paris, je t'aime, La Môme (about Piaf), Rush Hour 3 or Devil wears Prada.
Thank you Darlene and Bryan
Published on Wed, 14 Mar
I is always a great pleasure to hear a guest comment, thank you. Now they are back in USA and have cleared the snow to enter their home.
"Our stay in Paris was wonderful and I loved every minute of it. The apartment was FABULOUS and the owner (Davy R.) was very helpful and accommodating.His wife (we did not meet) has wonderful taste in decorating.Davy mentioned that the building was over 300 years old or more. The exposed OLD beams of the ceiling to the apartment gave the place a wonderful rustic feel.It was perfect for the two of us. Our location was one of the oldest districts of Paris. As for getting around Paris, we walked everywhere and the train system was very convenient and easy to use when we wanted to cover more ground quickly.Did not get the chance to use the bus system, but we heard it was even cheaper to utilize.The grocery, bakery, pastry, cafe's, bars, restaurants, EVERYTHING were steps or blocks from our 'flat or apartment'. Wanted to mention that the closest grocery store is right out the front door and the owner/sales person was VERY honest, helpful and TRULY a treasure!
The Louvre was 2 blocks away! We walked to the many famous sites; Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower (walked up the stairs), L'Arc de Triomphe, Concorde, of course the Lourve and many COOL streets and neighborhoods of Paris.Caught the metro/RER to Versaille and it was FANTASTIC!Also - it was very easy to caught the metro/RER from the airport to the apartment and back. You do not need to use the TAXI's!All-in-all, we both TRULY enjoyed our stay in the apartment and Paris. When we get the chance again, we will be back.
Darlene & Bryan
Edina/Minneapolis, Minnesota"
Do not bring your computer !!!
Published on Wed, 14 Mar
You do not have to bring your computer to use Internet in the apartment, we added a laptop.
OS is Windows XP.
Happy New Year to all Paris visitors !
Published on Mon, 08 Jan
For this new year we are happy to provide our guests with fast unlimited internet access in the Louvre Rivoli apartment.
Musée de l'Orangerie
Published on Sat, 09 Dec
 The Musée de l'Orangerie in the garden des Tuileries near the Louvre is now open. It provides us the chance to see Les Nympheas of Claude Monet. This museum has been closed since 2000 and it is now completely renovated and restructured.
Les Nympheas are one of the most impressive impresionnism paintings one could see in his live. Colors, size and perspectives of the Nympheas are an invitation to meditation. Check the virtual visit of the Nympheas (colors on the web have nothing in common with the real ones).
 The Museum also offers the possibility to discover the rich collection of paintings gathered by Paul Guillaume. This collection includes paintings of famous names: Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso,
Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and Laurencin.
Doing the visit is like meeting famous paintings that use to exist only in books.
From November 22th to March 5th the exhibition of 1934, has been re-created: "Realistic Painters" or "The Painters of Reality in France in the 17th Century". Fabulous paintings of Georges de la Tour and the Le Nain Brothers are presented.
If you do the visit of the Orangerie, begin by the Nympheas, then the Paul Guillaume collection, then have a break before seeing Realistic Painters. If time permits, visit again the Nympheas again before you go.
I regret that the visitors who do not speak French must rent some audio system to get the explanations, as no effort has been done to translate the panels.
New version of our website !!
Published on Tue, 05 Dec
Today we launched the new version of our website for the Louvre-Rivoli apartment.
This website will provide much more info and pictures about Paris and about the apartment for rent : http://www.rendezvousinparis.com
Walt Disney Art Exhibition in Paris Grand Palais
Published on Mon, 25 Sep
Inspiring exhibition about Disney's art in Paris Grand Palais. It is focused on European documents gathered by Disney.
The art of doing nothing in Paris
Published on Tue, 12 Sep
I wish you can do nothing as well as Parisian do !
Joel Achenbach wrote a small ironic text about Paris and Parisian.
Full of clichés !
The Article on the Washington Post.
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