Thank you for your visit.
Paris is more than its famous towers and boulevards. It is a mosaic of quieter, out-of-the-way enchantments—morning coffee by the Canal St. Martin as a child whizzes by clutching a spray of dandelions and an old man who looks a lot like Renoir toils away at his easel.
TraceVoyages offers you a trip rich with the charms of this wonderful city. For fifteen years we have brought select groups of college students to Paris. Now we are planning a one-week tour that is open to all, in the third week of May, May 23-29, 2010.
A cheese-master will explain the intricacies of French cheese; you’ll taste the varieties. We will visit the atelier of one of the city’s foremost pastry and chocolate makers. We’ll eat in some fine, as well as some everyday restaurants and take afternoon tea in the former mansion of General Lafayette.
We’ll visit museums, Gothic cathedrals and striking contemporary architecture, wander through picturesque quarters of the city and overdose on Belle-Epoque glamor. We’ll listen to music in the most beautiful room in the entire world (are we a little prejudiced?), Sainte-Chapelle.
The group will be small, limited to ten persons, so make your reservations soon. The cost of the trip will be 1500 euros ($2240.00 at current exchange rates). This does not include your airfare to Paris and home again, the nominal cost of transportation from the airport to the hotel, and several supper meals. You may choose to dine quite cheaply or in high style.
Do note that we will do quite a bit of walking, just like the old-fashioned boulevardiers—walkers of the boulevards. Paris, of course, is the best city in the world for comfortable walking.
If you wish to make reservations, or to talk with us at greater length about the trip, or indeed if it is practical and you would like to meet and talk in person, please call us at 607-330-4581, or e-mail us at johndn@trace-voyages.com.
Join the enchantment.
John and Lynne Diamond-Nigh
