48 HOURS IN PARIS
Just two hours and 20 minutes away from London St Pancras International station, Paris is the ultimate destination for last-minute weekend getaways. And, peppered with excellent museums, shopping, food and historic haunts, it’s easy to spend 48 hours ambling from place to place beside the winding Seine, a crêpe and a coffee in hand.
This beautiful, speedy city offers key hotspots in spades – including a philosopher’s favourite restaurant, Marie Antoinette’s palace and the finest places for antiques-hunting…
DAY ONE
9am See the sights
Start your day the French way with a flaky croissant and, €14 () or the , €17 (). To beat the inevitable queues at the Louvre, you can go in through one of the side entrances, avoiding the glass pyramid. The Louvre is almost two miles long, and the vast collection includes 380,000 pieces, so it’s worth looking up the artworks you’d like to visit ahead of time and planning your route.
