What's still on your must-do list?

[ouiparis]

Which museums or monuments, if any, have you not had the pleasure of visiting?

[annettecinca]

I still haven't been to the top of the Arc de Triumphe, strolled along the Canal St. Martin, taken a tour of the Opera Garnier, visited the Cluny, the Jacquemart-André or the Marmottan, wandered the Parc Bagatelle or the Bois de Boulogne, nor seen the Petit or Grand Trianons at Versailles. Also I've got half a dozen markets remaining on my "must do" list. I'll cross off a few of these in October, but the list will only grow...

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

I have not been through the gardens at Versailles (it was pouring rain the only time I was there). I have not been to the Orangerie since it finally reopened (went back once or twice a year for a number of years, and then when it was finally open the lines were so long I have not gotten to it yet). Have not yet been to Canal St Martin, or been to the Opera Garnier (for a production, or just for a tour). And many, many more! Well, what can I say - more reasons to return!

[grndma]

:)my list for our July trip include
Mastering the buses and having a circular tour with my pass.
Guided tour inside Opera garnier
Musee Carnavalet
Maison Victor Hugo
Belville
Parc de Buttes chaumont
Canal St Martin
Promenade des Plantes
Markets Richard Lenoir and Bastille
Apart from the Opera tour, hopefully all these will be free! ;D
I have another list for October
Denise
Love from England

[Jody]

This trip we will positively visit La Defense, we've put it off for ages. Also do the Canal St Martin boat trip, my feet won't hold out for walking it.

Then I do want to see the new development at quai de Austerlitz, the design center which just opened is supposed to be really fantastic.
www.designbuild-network.com/projects/docks-de-paris/

And I'm hoping there is an exhibit open at Maison Rouge that we'll enjoy.

I also want to go to a club Metropole meeting on a Thus. ..if I don't forget!

[geordy]

Interesting link Demarais!

Nothing "major" on my list...one of the pleasures of having been a number of times...you can meander or cafe sit without feeling you should be doing something! Not that most of our group doesn't enjoy those moments!

I do need to get back to Versailles...other day trips...back to the Arc for the new museum space, that Salamander..back to the Pere LaChaise and other cemeteries...and of course so many , bistros, cafes, markets,restaurants! And more of the "hidden gems", places, "villages"

[goldenmama]

:oOught-oh! I can't believe I've never heard of Canal St. Martin, and it sounds as if I need to put it on my list! And my list is getting mighty long, may I say...

I want to get to the Cluny Museum this time, as well as the Carnavalet. Also St. Denis, as we ran out of time (and energy) for that on the last trip.

[ouiparis]

Bois de Bologne
Musee National de Moyen Age
Musee de Arts et Metiers
Canal St. Martin
Covered passages
Opera Garnier
And much much more...

[mez]

My goodness! I haven't even begun to scratch the surface...and you lot aren't helping either by providing new suggestions daily! ;D

[Laura (paris4)]

Travelling with two small children means most of our must-dos are parks. Of those we haven't been to before, we plan to see Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes, Parc Monceau, Parc Montsouris, Parc George Brassens, Parc Andre Citroen and probably many more on our up-coming two week trip at the end of June.

Laura x

[luckyluc]

Laura, do add to your list of parks one that is often overlook Les Buttes-Chaumonts.

here is the some info about it: www.v1.paris.fr/EN/Visiting/gardens/parc_buttes_chaumont.asp

[Laura (paris4)]

Thanks for your message, Luc. We actually stayed in the 19th on our last trip to Paris so spent quite a bit of time at Buttes Chaumont. It is lovely and we may well go back this year, even though we will be staying Malakoff this time. You are right, it is well worth adding to anyone's must-do list.

Laura x

[chicchantal]

I've never been in Versailles palace though I've been round the gardens twice. I haven't been in the opera or the Sainte Chapelle but I'm hoping to do the latter this time.

[grunblack]

Everything! The first and only trip we have been able to make feels like it was so quick (and I got sick and there was a 2 days strike) so I feel like I need to see it all again, which makes it difficult when trying to decide what to see next - the things I have already glimpsed or the things that I am yet to see at all.....

[Jody]

We've always been too early or too late in the season for Giverny. But having just watched The Impressionists and read the Jane Roe book that someone here recommended, It is a must do this trip. We arrive on the 30th of Oct. so we will just make it for the last day of the season on the 31st! It means putting off the Canal St Martin boat tour but we can metro or bus and walk along some of it, if my poor old feet hold out!

[sunshine817]

I've always loved Monet -- and eagerly looked forward to our visit a few years ago.

It's not so much a showcase for his works, as much as it is being able to see the inspiration for it. There are views around the pond where you say "oh, that's Water Lilies, or look, there's the Chinese Bridge".

And the gift shop is in the building that was his workshop. His presence there is still powerfully evident, even with the throngs of visitors.

[holger]

While we may get to some of the smaller museums in our two weeks next March, we are really just planning not to plan this trip. Rather to explore the different quartiers in areas like the 9th and the 11th and get to markets, some more passages and essentially just "hang out."

So the must do lists of the past are themselves things of the past. The exceptions are certain restaurants and hopefully a performance of anything at Opera Garnier.

[GitteK]

I have been to Paris several times and my lists of TO DO's tend to get longer and longer every year,
although you'd think they would grow shorter and shorter.
There must be some inherent magic working in Paris , so that whenever you have ticked off something as DONE!,
then at least two or three new exciting "must-do-can't-live-without" secrets to explore creep into your list,
when you are not looking ! This is a summary of the TO DO's for Aug/Sept.:

L'Orangerie
Tour Jean Sans Peur
Hotel du Soubise
Square Barye
L'As du Falafel
Musée Picasso
Arts et Metiers
Baba au rhum from Stohrer
Musée de la Poupée
Jardin Tino Rossi
Jardin Alpin (again) in Jardin des Plantes
Grande Galerie de l'Évolution in Jardin des Plantes
Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie (again) in Jardin des Plantes click to see
Frazier from Gérard Mulot
All sorts from Pierre Hermé
Église St. Francois Xavier
Place Gaillon + Drouant
Grand Palais
Jardin de la Vallée Suisse
Église Notre Dame de la Consolation
Nissim de Camondo
Jaquemart-André
Lunch at Printemps roof terrace
Maxim's Art Nouveau museum
Tons of chocolate shops, e.g. À l'Étoile d'Or
Opéra Garnier
Musée de l'Éventail
St. Vincent-de-Paul
Quartier Sainte-Marthe
Exploring 12.arrondissement
Palais de la Porte Dorée
Château de la Reine Blanche
Exploring Butte aux Cailles (again)
Musée du Montparnasse, 21 Impasse du Maine
Cité Universitaire
Parc Montsouris and surroundings (again)
Orthodox church, St.Séraphin de Sarov
Exploring 15.arrondissement
Marmottan
Musée Baccarat
Musée Galliera
Serres d'Auteuil
Exploring Auteuil and Passy (for Hector Guimard buildings, among other things)
Villa des Ternes/ Rue Bayen
Sumptuous villas around Parc Monceau
Finding building with ceramics decorations, 32 Rue Edmond Flachat
Marché Poteau
Tons of restaurants, but only so few meals........
Jardin Sauvage
Montmartre Museum
Dragshow at "Michou" in Rue des Martyrs
Exploring Avenue de St.Ouen foodmarket
Cimetière de St.Vincent
Quartier Mouzaïa (again) and south-east: Rue Paul de Koch, Rue Émile Desvaux
Église Saint Serge
Villette bassin
Vélib'ing in Bois de Vincennes and/or Bois de Boulogne
Village St. Cloud + Jardin Albert Khan
Île de la Jatte
Parc de Bécon
Île St. Germain
Sing-along evening at "Le Vieux Belleville"
Boattrip on the Marne
Ville d'Avray (Les étangs de Corot)
Fontainebleau
Vaux-Le-Vicomte
Château de Compiègne
Chantilly and Senlis
L'Haÿ les Roses

......... just to mention a few........

[kittyhead]

wow, gitte that's quite a list coming from you! i can't believe you've never been to opéra garnier! i toured it on my last trip. it's a beautiful place and was glad to have spent a little time there. the chagall ceiling is especially gorgeous.



i'm hoping to hit a few new places on my trip this week: canal st martin, montparnasse, l'orangerie, picasso museum, l'institut du monde arabe, viaduc des arts & promenades plantées.

[andi]

Rent an apartment for a month
Still not been up the tower
Still not been up Arc D'Triomphe
Opera Garnier
Canal St Martin
Versailles
Chantilly
l'Orangerie
Promanade Plantee
Catacombs
Montparnasse cemetary