Wintery Walks in Paris with Context Tours
December 11, 2009
Photo: LIFE
Our friends over at Context Travel are offering awesome discounts on some wintery walks this month. Tell them Haven in Paris sent you and get 15% off on these tours:
Tuesday December 22 at 4pm
Paris Holiday Walk: Culinary Traditions: An introduction to French holiday gastronomic and holiday traditions. Visit a typical Christmas market and specialty food shops. 2.5 hrs
Thursday December 24 at 10am
Boulevards of Paris: An investigation of Parisian urban development particularly focused on the radical changes made in the late 19th century by Baron von Haussmann. See Paris’ major thoroughfares all decked out for the holidays! 3 hrs
Sunday December 27 at 10am
Père Lachaise: A stroll through the famous cemetery where notable figures such as Oscar Wilde are buried. Most of the garden-cemeteries of the world were modeled after. 2.5 hrs
Wednesday December 30 at 10am
Chocolate Walk: A delicious tour around the city’s most coveted chocolatiers and bakeries and pastry shops including history, cultural tidbits and tastings. A great opportunity to pick up some holiday treats! 3 hrs
Photo: Erica Berman
So bundle up and hit the streets! To reserve your tour today, call +33.1.70.61.07.66 or email info@contexttravel.com.
About Context Tours: Context is a network of around 200 scholars and experts who lead walking seminars on a variety of culture-related topics. All walks are capped at 6 people, creating an intimate learning experience. To celebrate the holiday season, Context Paris is happy to offer clients of Haven in Paris a 15% discount on any of these walks taking place over the holidays.
Written by Tory Hoen for the HiP Paris Blog. Looking for a fabulous vacation rental in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany? Check out Haven in Paris.
Written by Tory Hoen
After attending Brown University and spending two years in New York, Tory bought a one-way ticket to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a writer (and of drinking wine at lunch). During her time in the City of Light, she chronicled the euphoric highs and the laughable lows of ex-pat life on her blog, A Moveable Beast. Though she's now based in New York, she travels frequently to Montreal and Brazil, and she'll use just about any excuse to jet to Paris ("I ran out of fleur de sel"). A regular contributor to Hip Paris, Tory also writes for New York Magazine, Time Out New York, and she is a co-author of Gradspot.com's Guide To Life After College.
Website: http://www.toryhoen.com/
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