Paris au Flaneur

Location: Paris
Tour Duration: 10AM-3PM (estimated), no-host lunch
Host: Terrance Gelenter

Price: 250 euros per person, children under 10 FREE when accompanied by parents.

2-3 persons 350 euros

4-6 persons 500 euros

Reservations: Pay by Paypal or contact terrance@paris-expat.com

Flaneur: a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a “gentleman stroller of city streets”, first identified by Charles Baudelaire.

Paris is not just the most beautiful and most romantic city in the world it is a state of mind. Savor every moment of your time in the City of Light, especially those unexpected pleasures that lurk around every corner as you lift your head skyward and discover a bas-relief or watercolor painting one flight above the ground on a building you had passed before without noticing.

I invite you to join me in Paris au flaneur as we wend our way from one side of Seine beginning with a discussion of the importance of the café in Parisian life and the luminaries like Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Juliette Greco and Miles Davis who filled them to the other, pausing to enjoy the obvious (the Louvre) and the slightly hidden (passage Vivienne.)

In our travels we will meet the wine merchants, galeristes, restaurateurs and eccentric personalities who have become my friends and will give you a warm welcome to the neighborhood.

A day of guerrilla theater with me as director and you as an actor whose unique observations and impressions add a texture and spontaneity to our script.

Among our Right Bank stops will be the courtyards of the Louvre, the Palais Royal and gardens, Les Halles, and many more.

As longtime subscribers to the Paris Through Expatriate Eyes newsletter, The Paris Insider, we knew that the Paris au Flaneur program would be an illuminating way to prepare ourselves to discover and enjoy Paris on our own–we just didn’t know that it would be so entertaining.

Our host Terrance Gelenter combines the journalist’s eye for detail and subtext and the film critic’s knowledge of cinematic Paris, accompanied by the saloon singer’s ability to sing a few bars of songs, in French and English, inspired by Paris –imagine that you are in one of Hollywood’s great musicals about Paris. – Philip Knowlton & Suzanne Fitzgerald

Video memory-We can shoot and edit a 30-minute video of this special Paris experience to share with friends and family-for details contact Terrance@paris-expat.com or 011-33-(0)6-70098-1368.

About your host: Terrance Gelenter Few non-Frenchmen know the City of Light so intimately. The founder/director of Paris Through Expatriate Eyes is a fluent French speaker and has for thirty years been a regular visitor to Paris. This has given him an intimate acquaintance with its less familiar cafés, museums, & bistros, and helped him form a network of Parisian friends who generously share their expertise. His work has brought him into contact with numerous figures in the world of French literature and show business, including Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche, film director Bertrand Tavernier, philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, Peter Mayle, and Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce, and Into a Paris Quartier to name but a few.

With the memories remaining of our recent visit to Paris, one of the most prominent is the time that my wife, Dana, and I spent with you on our day tour…