Paris And Beyond Tours

Name: Paris And Beyond Tours
Address: Paris, FR
Telephone: +33633860314
Price range: ££
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Paris And Beyond Tours

Private and customisable tours and experiences of Paris and Beyond with passionate local guides.
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14/08/2026

Meet Martin, one of our Musée d’Orsay guides 🎨

Everything changed in 1874. A group of artists, rejected by the official Paris art establishment, decided to hold their own exhibition instead — and Impressionism was born.

Martin walks you through the movement’s biggest names: Claude Monet, Renoir, and later the Post-Impressionist who took it even further, Van Gogh. The museum also holds an entire department dedicated to Rodin, one of the greatest sculptors in history.

Painting, sculpture, a full century of art history housed in a former train station : you won’t leave disappointed.

👉 Want to explore the Musée d’Orsay with Martin? Link in bio to book a private tour.

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13/08/2026

Best duck restaurant in Paris? Here’s one most tourists miss 🦆🥂

Canard et Champagne sits inside the Passage des Panoramas, one of the oldest covered passages in Paris. The restaurant itself occupies a former 19th-century chocolate factory that once supplied the royal court.

I’ve been recommending this place to guests for over 10 years, and it’s never once been a miss.

Two atmospheres to choose from: a lively room on the ground floor, or a wine cellar dining room in the basement for something more intimate.

Everything comes from carefully chosen producers in the south of France, and the wine list has its own house cuvée, developed with an oenologist specifically to pair with the menu.

On the table: a slice of foie gras, magret de canard, confit duck leg, and a chocolate mousse worth the trip alone. Come in the evening and the €8 mousse is “à volonté” : as many cups as you want.

And if the weather’s on your side, there’s a terrace too.

Historic setting, honest ingredients, duck done properly : and a decade of guests who agree.

👉 Want a guide who knows every hidden address like this one? Link in bio.

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10/08/2026

One of my favourite ways to balance the day in Paris with kids.🎡

One thing I love about this fair: you pay per ride, not for the day. No pressure to commit to hours of activities just to feel like you got your money’s worth : pick a ride, pay, done.

Perfect if you’ve only got an hour to spare.

There’s a genuinely broad range here for kids and teens alike : bumper cars, a Ferris wheel with sweeping views over the rooftops, a ghost train, climbing walls, trampolines.

Food stalls are everywhere, but I’ll be honest: most of it is overpriced and not exactly nutritious.

Great for a treat, not for a meal.

My real tip: do this mid-day or after a tour, not before one.

And the location is unbeatable -> right between the Louvre and Orsay, along the Seine, an easy walk from Notre dame or the Marais.

Easy to fold into almost any day in Paris.

👉 Want a private tour that actually fits around moments like this? Link in bio.

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30/07/2026

Download this app before your next family walk in Paris 🕹️

Since 1998, an anonymous French street artist known only as “Invader” has been gluing pixelated mosaics onto walls across Paris and the world. 28 years later, there are thousands of them: over 1,500 in Paris alone, and more on every continent except Antarctica.

They’re everywhere once you know to look: above a doorway, on a street lamp, tucked next to a “no posting” sign. Most people walk right past them without noticing.

The app FlashInvaders turns the whole city into a scavenger hunt. Point your camera at a mosaic, and it tells you if it’s real, catalogs it, and gives you points for the find.

This is genuinely one of the best free things to do with kids in Paris. Instead of dragging them from monument to monument, watching them get bored, give them a mission : and suddenly they’re the ones leading the walk, eyes up, actually excited to explore the streets.

👉 Want a guide who can turn every walk into an adventure like this? Link in bio.

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25/07/2026

Why does the Arc de Triomphe actually matter? 🏛️

Most visitors photograph it and move on. Underneath the arches, there’s a lot more going on.

Napoleon commissioned the arch in 1806, right after his victory at Austerlitz : but he didn’t build it for himself. It was built to honor the Grande Armée, his imperial army, and the soldiers who won those victories with him. It took 30 years to finish. Napoleon never saw it completed.

Look closely and you’ll find 660 names carved into the stone: generals of the Revolution and the Empire. If a name is underlined, that general died in battle. Above them, 30 shields name the most decisive victories of the era : Austerlitz, Marengo, Jemappes : and beneath the great arches, another 128 battles are engraved into the walls.

Here’s the detail that actually gets people: when the names were first chosen in 1836, the list wasn’t complete. Victor Hugo’s own father, a general under the Empire, was left off entirely : and Hugo wrote about the omission in one of his books. Public pressure led to more names being added over the following years.

This isn’t a monument to one man. It’s a monument built to remember hundreds of individual soldiers.

👉 Want to see the names and hear the stories behind them? Link in bio to book a private tour.

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24/07/2026

Rue de Buci: the Saint-Germain street you’re probably walking past 🇫🇷

This little street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés might be one of the most underrated stops in Paris : and I wanted to show you why.

We start at Taschen, the publisher’s very first flagship store, designed by Philippe Starck. I couldn’t resist showing you their Eiffel Tower book : a massive coffee-table piece with over 32,500 drawings inside. Yes, really.

From there:
Maison Thévenin (delicious local bakery)
Maison Leroux where Salted butter Caramel was invented
Terre de Café one of my favourite coffee breaks
La Dernière Goutte for wine lovers who want something beyond the obvious bottle.
One of my favourite wine shop of the city

Five stops, one street, zero need to rush anywhere else.

👉 Want a guide who knows every street like this one? Link in bio to book a private Paris tour.

🔖 Save this for your next walk through Saint-Germain.

22/07/2026

Meet Sébastien, one of our Louvre guides 🏛️
His top tip: skip the pyramid, enter through the Porte des Lions instead. Fewer crowds, same museum.
But what makes his tours special isn’t logistics, it’s how he talks to kids.
On a recent tour, he asked a young visitor what she thought of an Athena statue. Her answer stopped him in his tracks, the kind of sharp, honest observation only a kid can give.
Sébastien knows the Louvre’s history inside out, from its medieval beginnings to renaissance’ transformations. But his real love is Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, two collections he could talk about for hours.
Sébastien tells you why it matters, and adjusts on the spot to what actually interests you.
👉 Want to explore the Louvre with Sébastien? Link in bio to book a private tour.

17/07/2026

Where to buy Souvenirs in Paris ?

Walk along the Seine and you’ll see them: green wooden boxes clamped onto the stone walls, packed with old books, prints, and postcards.

These are the bouquinistes : and they’ve been here since the 16th century.
Officially recognized in 1859.
Nearly 230 booksellers today,
running close to 900 of these green boxes,
holding over 300,000 books between them.

The Seine has been called the only river in the world lined with bookshelves on both sides : and once you’ve walked it, you’ll understand why.

But here’s the thing most visitors don’t know: in 2024, these stalls were almost removed entirely for the Olympics. It took a direct intervention from the French president to keep them standing : because losing them would have meant losing a piece of Paris that’s survived longer than most of the monuments around it.

Every box is different. Some specialize in vintage postcards, others in antique maps or first editions. Half the fun is not knowing what you’ll find until you’re standing right in front of one.
I once bought a journal with the landing on the moon picture of Niels Armstrong.

If you’re walking along the Seine, near Notre-Dame or the Latin Quarter, don’t just walk past. Stop. Flip through a box. You might leave with something no gift shop in Paris could ever sell you.

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14/07/2026

How to skip the line at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris 🕍
Since reopening, Notre-Dame draws some of the longest queues in Paris. Here’s how to actually get in without losing half your morning.
Book ahead : free tickets are available online a few days in advance, but slots are limited and go fast.
Come early : the line stays manageable before 10am. After that, it builds fast and stays busy most of the day.
Going for Mass? You can enter faster through the dedicated line : but this is a place of worship first. Come to observe respectfully, not just to skip the queue.
Visitors with disabilities have access to a separate skip-the-line entrance.

How Far in Advance Should You Book Notre-Dame Tickets?
Want to skip the line of Notre Dame?
Our guided tours come with direct access : no queue, no guesswork, just walk straight in with someone who can actually tell you what you’re looking at.

👉 Link in bio to book a skip-the-line Notre-Dame tour.

13/07/2026

What makes Notre-Dame Cathedral so special to visitors?

Most people walk past this facade without realizing they’re looking at an 800-year-old storybook 📖

📲 Want to see it all up close? Check the link in bio for guided tours of Notre-Dame and beyond tours

Every sculpture here was placed on purpose nothing is random.

The three portals each tell their own story: the Virgin (Mary’s life), the Last Judgment (Jesus, the 12 apostles, and 24 bas-reliefs of good vs. evil), and Saint Anne home to the oldest carvings on the facade, some over 800 years old.

Above them, the 28 kings aren’t original they were beheaded during the Revolution, mistaken for French monarchs. The real heads were found decades later and now sit in a museum nearby. What you see today are 19th-century replacements.

The rose window above still holds fragments of medieval stained glass that somehow survived it all.

Even the gargoyles are deceiving most, including the famous “Le Stryge,” were added in the 1850s, not medieval at all.

Every stone tells a story. Most people just don’t know how to read it.

📲 Want to see it all up close? Check the link in bio for guided tours of Notre-Dame and beyond tours

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