But, unfortunately, it is located in the north and not so far from the sea. Not London of course, but it rains here quite often.
And what to do if the rain caught you while traveling in this beautiful city? After all, you don’t want to waste precious time ...
5 ideas how to entertain yourself in Paris during the rain!
The first thing to consider if you are planning a trip during the notoriously rainy months is to book a good hotel at a good price in the city center. Personally, for this purpose I use websitetrivago(independent search engine for hotel prices). On the site trivago.ru you can get acquainted with the list of hotels, as well as compare prices from various hotel booking sites. After reviewing the reviews and viewing the photos, you are sure to find the right hotel at an affordable price.
Best in the center. I'll explain why!
Then, in case of inclement weather, the main sights and places that you will learn about in this article will not be so far from you, which will give you a good advantage when moving around the city.
1. Shelter from the weather with hot chocolate at Angelina's
"Angelina" is a little more than a simple tea salon.
Opened according to the original concept by an Austrian at the beginning of the 20th century, this salon immediately became a symbol of refinement and good taste in Paris.
Well, besides, I have personal, especially warm feelings for this institution, because my
Sitting comfortably in the armchairs of the interior of Belle Epoque, you will quickly forget that it is wet and rain drumming outside.
Where is:
226 rue de Rivoli, 75001Metro Tuileries
Open all days from 8 to 19.00
Phone:01 42 60 82 00
2. You can go “imitate” in Manoir de Paris
If you like rainy-dreary weather and the corresponding mood, then you can aggravate it even more and go to the terrible Manoir de Paris.
As you walk, you'll be greeted with a dozen productions of dark Parisian stories designed to scare, thrill, and give you goosebumps.
All productions are performed by real live (!) Actors. Everything here is done to make you feel as bad as possible, and the figures jumping out of nowhere will certainly break through the most insensitive natures.
After visiting this dark institution, even rain on a gloomy street will seem like a joy to you. No more words, see the rest for yourself!
Practical information:
Manoir de Paris18 rue du Paradis, 75010
Metro Château d'Eau or Gare de l'Est
Tariff: 20€
3. Half a day in an English setting
Rain, you want to go somewhere for the benefit of the mind, you say, because Paris is a city of museums.
And you will be right.
I especially like the museum in the English warm style - Evolution Gallery, with its wooden shelves, parquet, huge glass roof... All this, together with the rain drumming on the stained-glass windows, creates a very English atmosphere.
In addition, there is something to catch the eye here - the history of the origin of modern animal species, skeletons and models of those that have already disappeared ... This museum will also be very popular
Practical information:
Jardin des Plantes36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005
Metro Censier Daubenton or Jussieu
Open all days except Tuesday from 10 am to 6 pm
Tariff 7€
4. Change the rainy gray sky to black but with stars - Planetarium
A good way to get away from the rain is to simply change the sky!
“It's not that easy,” you say. No, it's time to spit, we will answer.
Enough to go to Palais de la Decouverte and attend a session in the planetarium, located in the dome of the building. The stars above your head will make you forget about the clouds over the sky of Paris.
In the planetarium, you can see how the sky will look like in thousands of years, an eclipse of the sun and moon, admire the view of the earth from other planets in the solar system.
Practical information:
Palais de la Decouverte
Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008
Metro Champs Elysees Clemenceau
Phone: 01 56 43 20 20
5. Walk through the covered galleries
I think you will understand why I suggest you pass the rainy time with a walk through the galleries (or passages) with small elegant boutiques ...
After all, here the whole decor and the air itself are filled with the 19th century, its aura and vibes. This is a real walk in time.
Or galleries St Marc, Montmartre, Variétés.
How to get there and where is located:
Quartier Bourse, Richelieu Drouot and Grands Boulevards75009, Metro Bourse, Richelieu Drouot
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It rains very often in Paris and, unless you come in August, at least a few days of the trip will be rainy. Dress warmly, put on the most comfortable pair of shoes, stock up on raincoats, umbrellas and go ahead - this route will lead you through cozy coffee shops, interesting museums and other places that are ideal for bad weather.
Finding good coffee in Paris is hard, but KB CaféShop is one of the places coffee lovers should head to. A small cafe with large windows at the Martys-Trudaine intersection is almost always full of students with laptops, local bobos and English-speaking tourists, but it is always possible to find a seat on one of the wooden benches or a free table on the street. Baristas, friendly fashionistas, are ready to advise which coffee is better to take. The soundtrack always sounds great music, the portions are large, and the prices are low. This is the perfect place for breakfast in the trendy SoPi (South Pigalle) area, although you can also dine here, with some original, on-site sandwiches, salads and soup of the day on the menu.
The "Museum of Romantic Life" is worth a visit if only to have a cup of coffee in a cozy green courtyard. It is also interesting to visit the museum, especially since the entrance to the permanent exhibition is free. The house of Ari Schaeffer, court painter Louis-Phillip, which for decades brought together the most eccentric and passionate artists, writers and musicians of the 19th century at Friday salons for decades, carefully preserves the memories of its residents and visitors: furniture, paintings, letters and jewelry have been preserved here. For fans of George Sand, this museum, whose ground floor is almost entirely dedicated to her, is simply a must-see.
Gustave Moreau lived in a two-story mansion for more than half a century, he also opened a museum in the early 1890s. Moro is an artist whose work was mainly devoted to biblical, mystical and fantastic themes. A huge collection of his finished and unfinished works, the originals of which have long been sold to private collections, allows you to briefly immerse yourself in the strange but beautiful world of Moreau. Many of the exhibited paintings are, as it were, in the process of being created, and it is this incompleteness that causes a strange feeling that the artist will soon return and continue his work. The creaky floors, the magnificent spiral staircase leading up to Moro's atelier, and the very atmosphere of the mansion make this museum unique and loved by many art lovers.
Paparazzi is an Italian restaurant hidden in a quiet courtyard a stone's throw from the bustling Opera Square. In a rather dark stylish room, all the tables are almost always occupied (for dinner it is better to make a reservation and ask for a table by the window), visitors always look chic, to match the atmosphere, and almost everyone orders a signature dish - pizza, so huge that it is served on two large plates. Ideal to share one for two, although it is also eaten alone: the dough is very thin, and there is not too much filling. The rest of the menu is pretty traditional Italian dishes and appetizers, all perfectly delicious.
Teleskop is another minimalist cafe with great coffee. There are white walls, several tables, a friendly barista always ready to chat about coffee, and a cozy bench outside. This is a great place for breakfast or a break from the day: apart from coffee, granola yogurt and a few desserts, nothing is served here, but for a break this is what you need. The patrons are a fairly typical mixture for these new coffee shops - guys who work and live nearby, girls who fill their Instagrams with photos of cappuccino foam, and English-speaking and Japanese expats. Despite its miniature size, somehow you can always find a place in the Telescope. In case of an influx of visitors, there is an underground hall, although it is more pleasant, of course, to sit at a table by the window or on a bench outside. But the main thing is to never bring a laptop here with you. The owners of the establishment have a strict policy on this matter, so those who want to work over a cup of coffee are better off going elsewhere.
It is impossible not to reach the Louvre once you are in Paris, but you do not always have the strength and time to visit it. An excellent alternative in this case is the Museum of Decorative Arts, which occupies an entire wing of the Royal Palace. Inspection of the collection of objects created by the French from the Middle Ages to the present day will take at least several hours, or even a whole day, so it’s worth going here in your most comfortable pair of shoes. Furniture, interior details from different times, extravagant carpets, a huge amount of dishes, wallpapers, entire galleries of jewelry and children's toys - sometimes it is more pleasant to spend time in such a company than in a crowd of tourists crowding the halls of the Louvre. In addition, the temporary exhibitions here are one more amazing than the other: about Hussein Chalayan or Marc Jacobs, about Star Wars toys or about Dries van Noten.
Mina - half French, half Japanese - has created a boutique where even the most prudent lose their heads. The iconic Japanese brand Journal Standard contrasts greatly with what is sold in neighboring stores. As soon as you come here, you start thinking of reasons to buy another pair of boyfriend jeans, a hat, a cashmere sweater or the coziest poncho. In any case, visiting this place guarantees visitors a free lesson in style and elegance.
Located between the Louvre, the Palais Royal Garden and the Bourse de Commerce, the "Laboratory" finds new ways to combine art, design and science. In 2007, Harvard biomedical engineering professor David Edwards opened a space made from a former printing press where artists and scientists collaborate to experiment and create something as yet unnamed. It is a mixture of technology, art and philosophical concept. In 2009, a "cloud of tastes" was created here - a disembodied exhibition filled with smells. And a few years later, another metaphorical cloud, obtained with the help of an ingenious system for capturing water from the air, "hovered" in the Laboratory's showroom. There is nothing else like it in Paris, and even the entrance to the exposition is free, so you can’t ignore this wonderful world of Professor Edwards.
For those who are tired of banal mojitos and capirinhas, the perfect bar has recently opened in Paris - Experimental Cocktail Club. Going here, you should be prepared for the fact that you will never want to drink ordinary cocktails again. Such places have long become popular in New York, and the fashion for "mixology" bars is just beginning to reach Paris. Crazy delicious cocktails made from unusual types of alcohol, freshly squeezed fruit juices and a variety of spices, stylish handsome bartenders, cozy sofas and a relaxed atmosphere - it sounds like the perfect place to have a drink in the evening with friends. On weekends, DJs play here until 5 in the morning, so the sleepless party-goers are pulled up here after 2 in the morning, when most of the establishments in the area are already closed. It’s better to come here before 8 o’clock during the week, otherwise there will be almost no chance of finding a free place.
The restaurant everyone is talking about and very hard to get into without a reservation made two months in advance. Going here is an event for anyone who managed to reserve a table (by phone every weekday from 15:00 to 17:00 or online), but it's worth it: the chef used to work with Jamie Oliver, the menu is different every night and it's impossible to be disappointed after dining here. A little trick: if planning dinners two months ahead is not your thing, but you love spontaneity, come here by 7 pm. Smile (this is important, and not only here) and leave your number in case someone doesn't show up. Then head to their own wine bar across the street. Usually every day there are at least a couple of people who get into the restaurant this way, and if you're not lucky, you can dine right in the wine bar. The evening will not be lost in any case.
See Paris and die! Heard, probably, and more than once? So, in our humble opinion, there is absolutely no need to die, although you can see Paris. But this is not a city worth dying for. Does such a city even exist? By this I want to say that we were not so impressed by this famous city to fall in love with it, which our compatriots often do. By "stay alive" I mean "not die" :)
Yes, this is France, yes, the capital of this beautiful country, but Paris is a fairly ordinary French city, and there is nothing radically different in it. I liked it, but just like all other cities in France. Perhaps the incessant rain was to blame?
We arrived in Paris by train from. Tickets were bought in a hurry, as the option with kovturazh (hitchhiking with the payment of gasoline) broke off, and at that time it was the only option. We lived in Paris with the guys we found through. However, the path to them was thorny and long.
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We arrived late in the evening at the Gare de Lion station. We didn’t know Paris at all, and of course we didn’t know that the metro didn’t even work at one in the morning, and there were even fewer transfers. In general, the subway closed at the most inopportune moment. The navigator, in the most impudent way, refused to find the address of the guys. Only later did we learn that Paris is only the center of the city, and all the districts nearby are other settlements, and there are no visual boundaries between them. So the guys lived, already in another city, as much as 40 minutes on foot from the center of Paris.
We are standing, then, at 2 o'clock in the morning, lost in the Place de la Bastille, torturing the navigator, and in vain catching some wifi with a laptop, and a crowd of blacks is crawling up to us. Somehow I immediately trembled a little, there are a lot of them. Seeing our faces, one of them immediately began to say - peace, liberty, they say how to help. Who would have thought? He even took out his iPhone, tried to connect to the Internet too, so that we could find a hotel, but apparently that night the great god of the Internet was not merciful. As a result, we walked for 3 hours around Paris at night in search of a hotel with a 24-hour reception, and found only a certain viper for 50 euros. The toad was choking, but I wanted to sleep more.
By the way, I got the impression that the black population in Paris is 50% or more, and sometimes I even wondered if we were in France, if we were teleported somewhere to Africa.
The next day we came to the guys who warmly welcomed us, and with whom we happily shared vegetarian food. It's great to meet like-minded people!
For two days we walked around rainy Paris, along its streets littered with leaves, on which discarded mattresses were regularly encountered, went to Notre-Dame de Paris, wandered along the Seine embankment, not far from the pedestrian bridge of the Arts (Pont des Arts), took a look at the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe…
Most of the time we spent, no matter how trite, near the Eiffel Tower. Either it was raining, and we hid under it from the rain, then we waited until it got dark and the lights turned on.
The final chord was our way to Orly airport. They came with adventures, and left not without them. We almost missed the last metro and bus due to inaccurate information on the Internet, so we had to rush with heavy backpacks like mad.
P.S. If you spend the night at Orly airport, then you should know that there are very comfortable soft seats there. ()
Photo of Paris and its inhabitants
Sightseeing buses run around Paris - the second floor in the rain is the most!
Walking in rainy Paris.Whenever I came to Paris, I was constantly unlucky with the weather, then I got into a terrible cold at Christmas, then in autumn and spring I was in a period of incessant rain
Therefore, my associations with Paris are not festive, but rather sad-sentimental-blues (Blues, by the way, in translation means blue melancholy), although anyone who happened to visit London this week will most likely also be left with an unpleasantly depressing feeling from Foggy Albion
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But if anyone is interested in looking at sad Paris - below is a photo report
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I do not deny at all that the atmosphere of a great city sung by poets and artists, writers and musicians (see pictures here) can be understood by living in it or wandering for a long time in specific nooks and crannies, but the expression "See Paris and die" is not true at the root (IMHO). I was not so impressed by this famous city that I fell in love with it, as I expected after looking at the paintings and photographs of amazing masters. Is it beautifully decorated, or is it only painted in the summer?
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But the atmosphere, of course, is something that cannot be taken away, cannot be conveyed, that's how to betray smells? And I also constantly get lost and stray later in search of a hotel in this city, where all the houses are beautiful twin brothers, but about a dozen identical streets fan out from each square and from the shopping center (for example, Galleries Lafayette), and then it rains, and you can’t determine the direction of the world by the sun, and passers-by are always directed in the wrong direction. But museums, cafes and restaurants, shops and carousels with Holiday sales, illumination - all this is at the service of tourists in any weather. Notre-Dame de Paris, the Seine embankment, the Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe in the photographs that I managed to take
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From the Place du Trocadéro (built for the 1937 World's Fair) you have a view across the river and the Jena bridge to the Eiffel Tower, the Champ de Mars and the Military School. From the tower you can see the long park of the Champ de Mars, which leads to the building of the Military School.
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In the Chaillot Palace, built for the exhibition in the best traditions of Stalinist classicism, there is a theater, one of the halls of the French Cinematheque and two museums: the anthropological Museum of Man (Mus "e de l'Homme) and the Naval Museum (Mus "e de la Marine).
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The repertoire of the National Theater of Chaillot includes commercial hits for the general public. The Museum of Man is part of the National Museum of Natural History. The main object of the exposition is a person from an anthropological, paleontological, ethnological point of view.
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Below: photo of Christophe Jacrot in the theme of Paris rain
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Next is a photo of a tourist like me who got rainy Paris ...
There was no queue inside, you can not shoot with a flash. A huge building absorbing you, high arches, colored stained-glass windows, bas-reliefs. As soon as we were visiting one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, the service, or mass, began, I am sorry to confuse the atheist.
Les Invalides and the burial place of Napoleon
Through the Tuileries Garden, along the Champs Elysees, we walked to the triumphal arch.
July 5th, 2017 , 11:20 pm
What to do in Paris when it rains? To go for a walk!
The air is clean and cool, easy to breathe.
The smell of wet asphalt is mixed with the scent of flowering trees.
Wet bright green foliage pleases the eye, the sidewalks are almost empty .....
Paris, Paris... Everyone has their own. I have gray and rainy.
For the first time in September, for the second time this May.
Even if the weather isn't lucky, it's still beautiful!
Sguare Aristide Cavaille-Coll.
The square on rue la Fayette is named after the great French organ master Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
One of his creations is the organ of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. 
Eglise Saint-Vincent de Paul
This square is located next to the Church of St. Vincent de Paul. It was built in the middle of the 19th century on the site of the monastery where Saint Vincent lived. Beautiful outside, majestic inside! It is known for two organs by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the larger of them has almost 5 thousand pipes.
Rue la Fayette
How to get to the market in Paris? Yes, just walk a lot, and you will accidentally wander into one of them, like me. And stay there for a long time! There is something to see - full of exotic gifts and land and sea! There is something to listen to - merchants so loudly invite buyers, trying to shout down each other! Here you can drink, eat, and chat ...
Hiding from the rain, you can sit in a cafe.
How pleasant it must be to sit at these tables in fine weather...
And then wander through the covered shopping galleries.
Or visit a museum.
Or look into small shops.
By the way, about "look". I love peeking through open windows and doors! I do not miss a single opportunity, I stick my nose everywhere. Behind the door is an arch, and behind it is a courtyard. It's interesting to see what's there.
What a beautiful church, I thought, I should go. It turned out to be a bank building. French, what can I say...
Arc de Triomphe in Place Charles de Gaulle.
The idea of creating the Arc de Triomphe belongs to Napoleon. The tablets list the names of the victorious battles of the Napoleonic army and the names of prominent French generals. And the bas-reliefs depict scenes of battles. Inside the arch is the museum of the arch, and at the top there is an observation deck.
12 avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe.
The most famous is avenue des Champs-Élysées, Champs Elysees. An iconic street for Parisians, they come here on national holidays and in days of mourning. Military parades take place here. And I go for a walk through them, through the fields.
The most expensive street in Europe.
Song by Joe Dassin "O Shanz Elise":
- "On a sunny day and in the rain, at noon or at midnight, everything you want is on the Champs Elysees" ...
The name Champs-Elysees comes from Elysium - in Greek mythology, beautiful fields in the afterlife, where the blessed by the gods fall, where there is eternal spring and there is no suffering ...
Rain, rain, rain... But my journey continues. Napoleonic plans - I will reach the Place de la Concorde, and there I will go to the Louvre, and then I will turn to the Palais Royal. Ha, Napoleon didn't seem to carry out all his plans, did he?
Confectionery Laduree (1862) legendary. It was the Ladure family who invented the popular almond biscuit called "Paris macaron" - they took two colored macarons and combined them with a delicate cream. Ladure was the first to announce their cafe as a family cafe, where women could come with their children and friends, and even alone, because before only men visited the cafe. Jules Chére himself, who painted the Opéra Garnier, developed the design, chose the pistachio color as his signature color and created the logo for Ladure's house. Gift wrapping was designed by John Galliano and Christian Louboutin.
Confectioners all over the world try and fail to get the exact taste of Parisian macarons, one secret ingredient of the House of Ladure is a closely guarded secret!
Small Palace Petit Palais
Grand Palace Grand Palais
Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts, hosts art and technical exhibitions, fashion shows, concerts and book fairs. The glass dome of the palace has no equal in Europe. More steel was used for its frame than for the Eiffel Tower.
Fragment of the facade. Behind the columns is part of a mosaic panel, its total length is 74 meters.
The facade of the Grand Palais with a colonnade and sculptural compositions is striking in its size - 240 m by 20 m.
Both palaces were built for the 1900 World's Fair, as was the Pont Alexandre III, which starts between them and connects the Champs-Elysées with the Esplanade des Invalides.
The Petit Palais, after the closing of the exhibition, was given over to the Museum of Modern Art. In 2005, the palace was restored with funds received from the tax on living in Paris. Its foyer is decorated with mystical frescoes, natural light penetrates through the glass dome, and the floor is lined with amazing mosaics. Entrance to the museum is free.
I walked around the museum from all sides and found a wonderful clock on its back side. 
I walked through the green park and went to the Place de la Concorde. It was named so in 1795 in honor of the cessation of civil strife and reconciliation of the parties. And before that, it was called Revolution Square and a guillotine was installed on it, on which more than a thousand people died. And even earlier, the square was called Royal, as it is located opposite the royal palace.
The granite obelisk of the era of Ramses II is the oldest monument in Paris. Egypt gave it to France under King Louis Philippe I. To deliver the 250-ton obelisk to Paris, a special ship, the Luxor, was built.
The rain intensified, my feet got wet, I was very tired, it's time to slowly go towards the station, but where is this Gare du Nord? There are few passers-by, and they rush under umbrellas. Oh, a respectable monsieur under the canopy of a cafe, he is bored, waiting for something. Ekskuze mua, monsieur, gare du nord? Does not understand. I repeat, he wrinkles his forehead, he doesn't understand. And then it dawned on him - la gare du ner? Wee, wee, monsieur! La Gare du Noir!
The northern station of Paris is the largest railway station in Europe in terms of passenger traffic. It was opened in 1864. The facade is decorated with sculptures symbolizing the cities to which trains ran from here. The eight large statues at the top are London, Vienna, Brussels, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin and Cologne, and the twelve below are symbols of the cities of northwestern France.
The red train is my "Thalys", in just 3.5 hours and for 29 euros I will take it to Cologne. There is free Wi-Fi on the train, there is something to do on the road.
