Paris is a foodie and shopper’s paradise. The entire city feels like an adult playground, with temptation around every corner. We found that it’s pretty easy to spend a lot of Euros in Paris if that’s your thing (€38,000 cell phone at Lafayette). Alternatively one can also enjoy Paris on a budget, visiting the amazing outdoor markets, sampling street food and consuming (too many) €4 bottles of very good French wine.

We researched dozens and dozens of restaurants, boulangeries, cheese shops, chocolate shops etc. before our trip on sites like tripadvisor.com/, parisbymouth.com/ and www.davidlebovitz.com/. In the end we felt that using our own judgement was usually a better choice than many of the highly reviewed establishments. When in doubt we followed the crowd ... if a boulangerie had a lineup out-the-door for croissants ... who cares what tripadvisor says!