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One of the great things about Paris, and this is counter intuitive when traveling, is that it is a fantastic city to have no plans in. Now I dont mean just staying in your apartment and watching 5th Wheel re runs, I mean just go out and wander with no preconceived notion of things to do, boxes to check, or paintings to see. Do research on things you might like to do in each arrondisement, places to eat, drink, snack, or shop, and then just spend a day exploring that particular area.

Went about 5 years ago, and had so many serendipitously wonderful experiences just wandering around and not yet doing any of the real things we had planned yet from the time we landed (on one of those flights that arrived around 5:30 am local time - as I think most do) until the time we could check into our hotel, that we said we could fly out that afternoon and feel like we had a great trip.

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Posted on 2/7/18 at 2:54 pm to Y.A. Tittle

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had so many serendipitously wonderful experiences just wandering around and not yet doing any of the real things we had planned yet from the time we landed

As a planner this scares me haha. I do like the idea of picking a neighborhood, maybe do some prelimsry restaurant planning then just going to explore the neighborhood.

I always want to “just show up and explore” but not having anything relatively concrete planned or researched for a day or two in Paris scares me that I’ll have buyers remorse regarding whatever I choose.

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