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Paris En Famille
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This guide comprises 40 spots that all family members will enjoy: places to eat, museums,...
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For those readers looking for a contrast to our new guide, Paris En Famille, we have a suggestion. Bistrots, Brasseries et Bars de Paris documents the city’s great survivors: opulent 19th century brasseries and humble 1950s bars, tourist favourites and local hangouts. Divided by arrondissement, with evocative photographs, and text in French and English, we’ve found it ideal when planning long lunches or to find just the right spot for late night conversations over a digestif.
Put aside what you're doing for a little over half an hour and use the time to watch this short film about a boy and the balloon he finds on the grey Paris streets. Directed by Albert Lamorisse in 1956, with his five-year-old in the lead role, The Red Balloon has charmed viewers for decades. Director Terence Davies declares it “the greatest short ever made”, others say that it’s a “unique mixture of documentary realism and theatrical illusion”. We’ll just say that it’s utterly charming, and leave it at that.
It is a view held by some that children only enjoy activities specifically geared to their amusement, but it is not one that Yolanda Edwards ascribes to. She and her husband travel far and wide with their daughter Clara (pictured above enjoying escargots); from Bora Bora to Tahiti they roam, finding things to do and treats to eat, with nary a soft play centre in sight.
We have squeezed one more volume onto our shelves, a book whose idea is so obvious and so appealing it’s hard to believe it doesn’t already exist.
Classic Dining is a roll call of America’s last great old-fashioned restaurants, places where the waiters still dress up even when customers don’t. The diner pictured on page 78 in a black T-shirt and cargo shorts, hunched over his plate at Antoine’s in New Orleans is an unwelcome real world intrusion into a book filled with restaurants straight out of mid-century fantasy.
