The Essential Parisian Shopping and Sales Guide

Paris is the fashion capital of the world, and shopping in and around Paris is simply an amazing experience. No only will you find some of the most fabulous designer and couture clothing stores, but there are hundreds of gorgeous boutiques and department stores, the will keep you busy for days on end. Read on to find out more about the famous Paris sales, and where you can find the best bargains in this beautiful city…

When do the Paris sales take place?

Unlike other cities around the world, Paris only has two sales each year. The summer sales have now finished, but the annual January sale will be taking place from around the 7 th January 2010. Paris sales always last six weeks, and the prices become more and more reduced throughout this 6-week period. Towards the end of the sales you can expect to find many items reduced to as much as 80% off. If you’re visiting from outside of the EU, you could also get a 12% tax refund on all of your purchases.

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Actually it’s more about Paris from the «downside» because today we are going to speak about a totally different city from the one we all got used to – we will speak about the underground life of Paris .

First goes Paris Métro (or Métropolitain) which was first open back in 1900. A first train had only three wooden cars and 3 years after opening the great catastrophe happened – the fire which had suddenly begun in the metro carried 84 people lives away. Instead of stopping the driver kept the train moving until it was back in the tunnel, and only then he stopped for help at the first station. That only strengthened the fire and became a reason of sad consequences.
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Many people from all over the world love Paris and often visit this amazing city. It is popular by lots of historical and tourist attractions. But only few of us really know some corners that hidden from tourists’ eyes and unusual places of this ancient town. We won’t tell you about Louvre, the main tour or French Disneyland. We will open a mystery world of unknown Paris.

1. Everybody knows that France is a country of wine and cheese, but almost nobody knows anything about the Waters’ St. (Rue des Eaux), which is a little wine world. The Passy abbey on this street is rather popular by it’s thermal springs, but favorite Louis XIII’s wine cellars were found here only few years ago by one of the restaurant hosts. He transformed them into a wine museum where tourists could find ancient bottles and wineglasses, wax figures of monks and their tools and taste rare kinds of wine and cheese, as well.

Rue des Eaux & Musee du Vin

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