Paris Sports & Outdoors

Every Friday, Pari-Roller (http://www.pari-roller.com/) organizes a ride around Paris from 10.00 PM till 1.00 AM. It starts at 10.00 pm at the Montparnasse train station, under the big clock and ends...

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, also known simply as Paris SG or PSG, was founded on 12 August 1970, thanks to the merger of Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain. The club is one of only two French...

My husband and I just came back from Paris where we ice skated in front of the Hotel Du Ville. This was a marvelous activity. The last day the sun was shining, the ice was good, the children were at...

At last! We made it. Getting tickets was touch and go. Next time we will have to look into it much earlier and more extensive. I spend a great day at the courts. There is enough to see and do....

For me at least, pétanque seems like the quintessential French pastime, evoking images of groups of ageing men playing on shimmeringly hot days in shady small town squares. Pétanque is a form of...

Paris is a city with more than 2,000 years of history. The ancient city of Lutetia was founded in the era of the 1st to the 6th century. Although Paris is huge the compact city center is easy to get...

A rather amusing day out in the countryside on my moutainbike. So after lots of cycling around the streets or Paris, I decided I needed some fresh air and off-road action. I pulled out my Michelin...

I have a good tip having used them a while ago. If any volleyball teams (Club, universities teams or students teams), there is a special agency that do very good prices in France and they organize...

“I am afraid I play no outdoor games at all except dominoes. I have sometimes played dominoes outside French cafés.” — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Our Sunday in Paris coincided with the entrance of the...

From the Jardin des Tuilleries to the Parc du Camps de Mars amidst the Eiffel Tower, Paris offers so many marvelous parks in which to run. Not to mention scenic routes along the banks of the Seine or...

When in Paris some have asked about a pool, well there are many pools in Paris, and I have been to the famous Josephine Baker by the Seine. However,the one I have used is at Auteuil in the 16éme...

Did you know that you can rappel down the Eiffel Tower? Well, this guy was doing it anyway. Some rope. A bunch of those pulley things. A helmet. And, oh yeah, a permit from the authorities would be a...

Paris is going whole hog in its effort to nab the 2012 Summer Olympics. A logo for the event has popped up all over the city, from the National Assembly building to the Big Metal Tower. The plan...

We passed this wonderful Arena en route from the airport to our hotel,its a fantasic place to go and watch a sporting event such as France vs England in a rugby International,mind you tickets are like...