Paris Left & Right Bank - Bateau Lavoir & Pablo Picasso's Guernica
Picasso on the Right Bank - Bateau Lavoir There were two gravitational pulls for the École de Paris painters who flourished from the...
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Paris The Left Bank - Gertrude Stein
As the plaque at the front of this otherwise non-descript bourgeois building still attests, the American writer and aesthetic...
Paris The Right Bank - Au Caveau Montpensier
Socialising today is all bright lights and big city, penthouses and setting suns and Instagrammable moments of people wearing skimpy neon...
Paris The Right Bank - Le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont will be immediately recognisable to fans of the legendary TV sitcom Friends, as the colourful 1885 poster of...
Paris The Right Bank - Bourse de Commerce
In a city already over-flowing with world-renowned museums, one could justifiably wonder was there room for any more? And yet the past 10...
Paris The Right Bank - Les Passages
Beloved of 19th century flaneurs, les Passages de Paris live on across the Right Bank with over 20 covered arcades open to the public...
Paris The Right Bank - Centre Pompidou
If exposed pipework is all the rage with designers today, back in 1977 it was something of a shock to aesthetes when the Centre Georges...
Paris The Right Bank - Fondation Louis Vuitton
A relatively recent arrival on the landscape of the Paris art world, the Fondation Louis Vuitton opened to much fanfare in 2014. Almost...
Paris The Right Bank - Chopin
A Flaneur's Guide to Paris The Right Bank is available here: https://www.aflaneursguide.com/product-page/paris-the-right-bank For...
Paris The Right Bank - Hôtel de la Marine
If the addition of two new museums on the Right Bank over the past decade were not enough (that is to say: the Fondation Louis Vuitton...
Paris The Right Bank - Rue Montorgueil
If you find yourself near the old Les Halles markets (which is now a revamped state-of-the-art multi-story shopping mall), you might...
Paris The Right Bank - Sainte Chappelle
If waiting in line to get into the Sainte-Chapelle can sometimes feel like the via dolorosa itself, it is worth the wait and possibly...
Paris The Right Bank - Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Taken together, the rue Saint-Honoré and the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré measure 3.8 kilometres and so form the longest street on the...
Paris The Right Bank - Palais Royal
Photographers of all hues could easily get lost in the very photogenic Palais Royal and end up spending the day here, or even their...
Paris The Right Bank - La Belle Hortense
A Flaneur's Guide to Paris The Right Bank is now published and available here: https://www.aflaneursguide.com/product-page/paris-the-righ...
Dublin - Dún Laoghaire
Suburbs tend to get a bad rap these days but the experience of Dublin is as much about its outlying areas as the city itself. One of the...
Dublin - Grafton Street
If footfall is the golden metric of bricks and mortar retailers then Grafton Street has it all. Pedestrianised to much fanfare in 1983...
Dublin - Sweny's Pharmacy
Venue for the Launch of... Paris Special Edition - A Flaneur's Guide The Left Bank & Right Bank SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH 1:00PM to 3:00PM...
Dublin - Independence Trail
Visitors to Dublin may wonder why there is no coherent and consistent celebration of the people, events and key locations that led to the...
Dublin - Baggot Street
Baggot Street was given its name in 1773, derived from Robert Bagod, a 13th century chief justice who built Baggotrath Castle in the...
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