Subtraction

I’m sure the answer to that question is: a lot of time.

That said, I’m sure that time will be good time. Safe travels, sir.

I’ll be around during the week - shoot me an email if you want to grab coffee/lunch/drinks in the Mission.

Keeping your nephew entertained my be harder than you think. Paris has been doing quite a bit to be more friendly to English speakers, but you can’t assume anywhere you go will automatically have English subtitles.

The “Cité des Sciences” in La Villette has many hands-on exhibits designed to engage children (they even have a special area for 2-7 years old). Similarly the “Cité de la Musique” has music-oriented activities for kids. If he likes machinery, the “Musée National des Techniques” has a cornucopia of vintage mechanical apparatus, like Foucault’s pendulum, the original Caselli pantelegraph (Civil War era fax machine) and much more.

The Musée Grévin is a French Madame Tussaud’s style wax museum, but less garish and obsessed with pop celebrities.

When I was a kid, we would get tickets to the “Bâteaux Mouches” that go up and down the Seine river, a good way to discover the city’s top attractions from a different angle.

“How hard can it be to keep an eleven year old entertained?”

famous last words

nice blog, btw

My girlfriend’s niece (12 years old) came to visit for four days a few weeks ago.  She drove us all to distraction, and we were wrecks by the end of it.

Good Luck.

I have a very good friend in Paris, http://aphotographerinparis.com/, who families come and take her tours on photography, insider walking tours and my favorite service is a gourmet in Paris, where she takes you shopping at the french markets and brings you back to her home and you cook an authentic French meal.  Here is a photo of a recent young client http://www.aphotographerinparis.com/wordpress/2007/12/02/madeleine/

Have a great trip

Père-Lachaise is fascinating and cool. Have fun. You’re a nice uncle!

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I also live in Boerum hill. Hope your trip to paris was entertaining and really fun.

Hi Khoi. Just stopped by. Hope you’re well, bonne chance à Paris! :)

You could try Disneyland Paris of course…
This is better:
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/indexFLASH.htm

Mark

This one is for you: there’s an amazing antique book fair held, I believe, every saturday in the Parc Georges Brassens. It’s utterly huge. I bought a few books from there and the oldest one I saw was from the 14th or 15th century.

Also, have a rest in the Luxembourg Gardens and let the little one run around. There’s also a very cool man made park, temple, and waterfall in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumonts. You have to take the 7b to get there. By the way, isn’t the Parisian subway system by far the easiest—especially compared to NYC?

Of course you’re probably home already. C’est la vie.

Distracted eh? Sounds like you’ve got a crush on someone? ;)