I love a good festival and have for as long as I can remember. From Greek to Italian, from pierogies to patron saints, I’ll visit any festival with as many friends as I can gather (more people means more dishes to share).

Two things that I LOVE are Disney and traveling. When visiting Disneyland Paris became a real possibility in my life I had to make it happen! Once we booked our trip to France and my husband, Bryce, was convinced (the real magic!) to spend a day at Disney, the very next steps I took were buying park tickets and making our dining reservations. 

Enjoy my 5 favorite things from the magic of Disneyland Paris, via this 'Fav 5' Travel Guide. If you ever find yourself in Disneyland Paris, I hope you'll enjoy visiting the best parts from my visit.

Disneyland Paris is about an hour's train ride outside of Paris proper. The park was originally called Euro Disney and it was the second Disney park to open outside of America, just after Disney Tokyo. Once I saw the Bucket List Family visit Disneyland Paris I knew I had to go! This was my first time visiting a park outside of America, while I've been to both Disneyland, in California, and Walt Disney World, in Florida, several times. 

There are two parks making up the Disneyland Paris: Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park. My husband and I spent one day hopping back and forth between the two parks. Of all 5 Favs, only the Ratatouille ride and restaurant are from Walt Disney Studios Park. The other 4 are from Disneyland.

We considered staying at the Disneyland Hotel but the cost was nearly $1,000 per night!

The food was truly the highlight of our trip to Paris. We'd dreamt of street side cafes and macarons for months leading up to our trip and we were overwhelmingly delighted with the quality of food in Paris. 

Follow along on our journey to the many places where we collected fresh produce, sweet treats, and incredible restaurant meals across Paris. The added and unintentional bonus is your chance learn from our SEVERAL American traveler mistakes! This post is very long but includes tons of info and photos.

If you're here at Figs and Flights for the first time, please also enjoy the post on Paris {The Sights} and the basics of our trip via the Paris {Overview} post. Coming soon will be posts on Paris Disneyland, our cooking class in Paris, and visiting Normandy and Bayeux in France. 

The food in Paris was exceptional. We enjoyed colorful macarons, dainty French pastries, simple meals, and a delicious meal eaten in a historic train station. The seafood was fresh, the apricots were perfectly ripe, and figs and rainier cherries were spotted all across town.

​The food from our visit in Paris includes:

Markets:

• Fruit
• Seafood
• Horse meat!!

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​Sweets:

• Sorbet at Berthillion
• Crepes
• Macarons from both Laudrèe and Pierre Hermè

​Restaurants:

• Bistro Dupleix
• Le Train Bleu
• Brasserie Mollard

There is so much to do and see in Paris! Deciding what to do, and what to skip, can be overwhelming, especially with limited time in the "City of Lights."

This post includes a list of the Paris sights that we saw, with photos and reviews for each. Hopefully this post will serve as your own little Paris tour or it will help to inspire your future visit. 

To see more about the basics of our trip, read the Paris Overview post. I'll be posting again soon with what we ate in Paris.

Paris is a feast for the eyes. Many of the scenes are exactly like the paintings and images you've seen a million times: cream colored buildings topped with blue grey awnings, and dotted with ornate iron balconies, charming shutters, and colorful flowers. There are huge and historic churches like Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur mixed with modern and geometric masterpieces like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre pyramid.  No design detail is spared. 

The sights from our visit in Paris include:

• The Eiffel Tower 
• The Louvre pyramid
• The Siene River and Pont des Arts (the former lock bridge)
• île de la Cité and Notre Dame
• Monmartre and Sacre Coeur 
• Galleries Layfayette 
• Overall Paris charm

This trail mix is so good, it doesn’t make sense. The coconut pieces make it feel fancy and the chocolate chunks provide more chocolate than the average chip. I’ve taken this mix camping, on weekend trips, and even on flights. It’s great for sharing with friends, especially when you make this huge batch.

You don’t need a Trader Joe’s store, or these exact ingredients to make trail mix. Certainly you can make some form of this mixture with any type of nut, variation of coconut, variety of chocolate or candy, and/or dried fruit. I like the contrast of some almonds with salt and some without.