Touring With Michael Douglas!

Exploring the City of Lights with Karen and Michael Douglas Karen, our founder, and lead guide extraordinaire (and the rest of us here at Sight Seeker’s) had one of those “pinch me/slap me” moments over the summer: she had the honor to have toured with the great Michael Douglas! Yup, you read that right, we[…]

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about the Gilets Jaunes

Who are the Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, protesting in Paris? Since late last year, we’ve been getting a lot of client emails asking us what the heck is going on with all of the protests in Paris recently. In case you haven’t checked out the news in France, nearly every weekend since early December,[…]

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About the French Resistance

Learn more about the people that went above and beyond to help their fellow mankind during World War II in France We’re taking a step back from our usual humorous and light blogging to come at you all with something serious this time: the French Resistance movement in France during World War II. Most of[…]

7 approved Saint-Germain restaurants for after your Night tour

Where to eat in Saint-Germain / the north Latin Quarter You’ve just finished Secrets of the Night tour, our beautiful and fun evening tour. Here’s where to grab dinner… Have you ever been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of restaurants in Paris, and found it difficult to avoid tourist trap restaurants? You are NOT alone.[…]

2017 Paris Holiday Market Guide

Upated Paris Christmas Markets, everything you need to know: which markets are best, opening days, pros, cons, and a map Do you call it Marché de Noël? Christmas market? Holiday market? Christkindlmarkt? Well, whatever you call it, these little markets are an pretty fun part of winter in Paris. But there are so many of[…]

Get to know… Karen’s Paris

Your chance to get inside the brain of company founder Karen. It’s not every day that Karen – or any of our guides – get asked random questions about themselves. Random questions about Paris? Yes. Random questions about French history? Absolutely. But just fun thinker questions? That’s much more rare. We wanted to give everyone[…]

What’s the Deal With May 1 in France?

Claire worked and wrote for Sight Seeker’s Delight for 7 years – read more here. If you’ve been in Paris on May 1, you may have noticed a strange phenomenon: most stores, museums, and monuments are closed. And why are lily of the valley flowers being sold everywhere? May is a month riddled with days[…]

10 Paris addresses for celebrating Halloween

Celebrating Halloween in Paris just got easier. Halloween in Paris is not on the same level as elsewhere in the world (lookin’ at you, United States). But as a holiday, it IS catching on here, slowly but surely! Masks, face paints, costumes (rental or purchase), decorations…. You can now find them all in Paris. As[…]

When Hollywood comes to Paris

I was innocently strolling my neighborhood when I saw a street blocked off to traffic. “Strange,” I thought, and I figured there must have been a fire though I couldn’t see any fire trucks. I continued walking down the street and before long I apparently accidentally stepped into a time machine because I was –[…]

How to Build a Versailles Tour in 6 Easy steps

Sight Seeker’s Delight is building a walking tour of Versailles! Will it surprise you to know that you, yes you, are very directly involved in 2 of these 6 steps? We’re thinking about you all the time of course, with every note we make and story we tell. But you, Seekers of Sights, are 100%[…]