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

Bonjour! We just visited Paris, France, for the very first time. While I'll do a full download of our favorite food and activities soon, I thought an immediate and basic overview of  our visit will be helpful to me in the future. Hopefully it will also be helpful for you!

Overall I LOVE love LOVED Paris and would and will go back again in a heartbeat. Our time there was not nearly long enough. 

'Fav 5' travel guides include 5 of the best spots I've found to eat, drink, and explore in a city while visiting. This is the first of a two part guide to Nashville, Tennessee, focused specifically on the sights and sounds in downtown Nashville.

Recent Fav 5  travel guide locations include Vancouver, BC in Canada and Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.

Nashville, Tennessee. What began as a high school band trip for my cousin and her 15 year old daughter turned into a family vacation for 10 people! We took on Music City like it was our job. While a large group with various interests and staggering ages wasn't easy to coordinate, we all carefully selected which activities and tours to go on during our 5 days in Nashville.  ​

Nashville is both the capital of and the most populated city in Tennessee. This guide will cover locations specifically in downtown Nashville including "Lower Broadway." Named for the street running through it, Lower Broadway is the heart of the country music district. It is dotted with stores filled with boots and hats galore and you can't count the number of cycle bar tours and bachelorette parties whizzing by. You'll be delighted to catch colorful murals and live music around every corner. ​​

Travel tip: Checking the Uber website before flying into any city is always a great idea. Many airports have the "ride sharing" pickup in some corner of a back building somewhere, accessible only by hidden elevators or water taxis, and you can waste plenty of time looking for it. Here is your guide on how to catch an Uber in the Nashville airport (BNA).

Fav 5 is a series of travel guides in which I highlight 5 of the best spots I've found to eat, drink, and explore in a place while visiting. This time it's all about Vancouver, in British Columbia (BC) in Canada.

Vancouver is a Canadian city located in the province of British Columbia. It's just about 2.5 hours' drive time from Seattle, Washington, to Vancouver. I was shocked to learn that Vancouver is the 4th most densely populated city in North America after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City.