Between Porte d’orléans and Denfert Rochereau, you can walk on the Avenue du General Leclerc, named after the famous General who enters Paris and freed the city from the occupation on the 25th of august 1944.

And, on this very shopping street, you’ll get to very famous shops like Sephora or Zara, but you will also find one clothing shop where men can finally find some good stuff at honest prices: Father and Sons. At the beginning, this brand made only shirts and ties, but now, you can find lots of very nice 100% wool suits for prices which can vary from € 245 to € 345.

Ok, in my kind of profession we like these types of clothes, as we are obliged to wear them for work, but you will also discover a whole sportswear department, with really nice and up-to-date leather jacket or very comfortable sweaters.

There are several possibilities to pay less than the clothes are worth: you can wait for the summer, winter or floating sales, or register in the files, and received invitation for private sales, which begin before the sales and provide you right away with 30% discount. Don’t hesitate to visit the website to see if it can suit you !

By the way, the sales in Paris will begin next June, and you can profit from very good bargains in shops or on the internet.

I’ve already told you about a quarter I’m very fond of, La Butte aux Cailles. And if, just like me, you fall in love with this street, you can try a lot of restaurants, like “Les Cailloux”, but you can also decide to go to “Le Temps des Cerises”. This restaurant, which is also a cooperative, is very different and cool as you will never hear someone talking to you with a “vous”, cause they only use the “tu” – so truly Parisian !

Inside, when Paris is not on holidays, you will have to join the queue and give your name at the cashier so he will tell you as soon as a table is free (I’m pretty sure you cannot book a table but you can always try).

Most of the things you’ll eat here are fresh and cooked by the team, and it is quite enjoyable : very nice meat, veal stew in winter or goat cheese as a starter, you will equally enjoy some very tasty little wine, not too expensive, so very helpful if you get really thirsty.

For dessert, you can try the strawberry tiramisu, in season, not so common and very good.

And don’t forget to visit the bars around this spot after and /or before your dinner, you will even be able to dance if you feel like it. It’s time to make new friends at this location which can get very crowded when the weather is sunny.

I live in the 14th district of Paris, down in the south, between Porte d’Orléans ans Denfert Rochereau, where you can see a beautiful copy of Bartholdi’s Belfort Lion, Bartholdi is the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty and this is a copy because the original is, of course, in Belfort, in France!

And when I come back from a walk with my family in the Montsouris Park (check out the article, or if I want to share a good moment with some neighbors-friends, I like to go and have a brunch (on Sundays only for € 18) or dinner in a bistrot called “Le Verre Siffleur”, located rue d’alésia, very close to the eponymous underground station.

This place is relatively new, about three years old, but it brought a sort of fresh air in the quarter, with the rehabilitation of a very affordable bistrot spirit. Besides, this concept has already been copied with the opening of a new, and not really good “Bouquet d’Alésia” just near the cinema Gaumon Alesia.

But “le Verre Siffleur” is never empty, and even if you come to eat Burgers, Salads or pastas, the place is so nice that it is recommended to book a table, otherwise you will be “obliged” to have an “apero” at the wonderful bar, just in the center of the room.

Besides, it is also a French café with a small terrace, where you can have a coffee or a tea in the afternoon.

Butte aux Cailles is a really lovely part of the city. What city is that? You wouldn’t guess, if someone just set you down without telling you, in the middle of the hilly Street Butte aux Cailles.

It is in southern Paris, in the 13th arrondissement – the northern limit is Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, to the south is Rue Tolbiac, Rue Barrault to the west and Rue du Moulin-des-Prés to the east.

It has the atmosphere of a tranquil little village and will certainly give you a holiday feeling, or if you like big cities but a calm neighbourhood, maybe a wish to live here. It had that effect on me.

Just a few centuries ago this area was covered with farms, windmills while the river Bièvre ran through it. The origin of its name comes from the 16th century owner, Cailles, while buttes are hills. Today, history is visible through its distinction from its surrounding areas: Haussmann’s Paris on one side and high blocks of buildings on the other. And the river went into the underworld (canalisation).

At evenings, weekends and on sunny days, there is a great atmosphere all around. Lively, not stuffy and not snobbish at all.

If suggestions for places to go are at all needed, I would just say walk around before choosing a bar, especially in the Rue Butte aux Cailles. Fine places are the Basque restaurant in the Rue des Cinq Diamants (Chez Gladines) and La Folie en Tête, Le Diapason, Sputnik in the Rue Buttes aux Cailles.

Situated in the south part of Paris, park Montsouris is a first neighbour of La Cité Universitaire where in the spring-summer sun time you won’t need much more than this.

Constructed within the idea to give to each side of a city one big park/forest, Mount Mice is here from the end of 19 century. Before that time the main inhabitants were the mice, and bones (it was an old cemetery). Now they are Parisians and numerous species of birds.

Tourists are less present, certainly because it doesn’t show up in each general tourist guide. This slightly lesser popularity is maybe due to a fact it is not a typical symmetric French designed garden, but irregularly, a “wild” English one. The English-garden details here, are a lake, small falls and various rare sorts of trees that make it a pleasurable and picturesque place to be.

Positioned unusually on top of the train rails, its 15 hectares are adequate to take in the whole park walk in one visit, or run if it’s more fun for you. The slow-paced life of this park transfers you in a specific timeless mood.