Working for print, digital and radio outlets on four continents. Please email covidtips@businessinsider.com and tell us your story. 23 photos that will make you want to travel to Paris, Kylie Jenner faces backlash after posting pictures from Paris as critics say they're forced to stay home or can't visit loved ones abroad, I've lived in central London for 10 years — here's what I saw on a recent walk through the deserted city. The Champ de Mars: The whole stretch through to the Ecole Militaire. You may opt-out by. Restaurant and bar owners bang plates together and chant at a demonstration against restaurant and bar closures in Marseille, southern France, Friday Oct. 2, 2020. You can sail through to the top for views without having to push others out of the way. Head on one of these top day trips outside of the capital, but take your mask – for museums and shops for a start! Speaking on public radio channel France Inter, Arnaud Fontanet, epidemiologist and member of France's COVID-19 scientific council, said the notion that the "virus has stopped circulating" in the country had "no base in epidemiology". As a resident and as a travel writer, I enjoy taking pictures of Paris, and they have been vastly improved without tourists wearing shorts and sandals with socks in every picture. It takes in Boulevards de la Madeleine, des Capucines, des Italiens; Boulevards Montmartre and Bonne Nouvelle; Place de la République and Place de la Bastille; Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire and Boulevard Beaumarchais; Quai Henri IV, Quai du Louvre and Quai des Tuileries; and Pont Saint Louis and Pont Neuf. So ... [+] pourquoi pas don one, as it's a growing craze–and a rule for many places indoors and out. I've called Paris home for nearly six years, but I understand that even people who don't live here love Paris as much as I do. The Champs Elysées has been quiet, but no longer as quiet as it was mid lockdown in April. Pedestrians, and that includes those people doing sport: jogging, cycling, skateboarding etc. The measures were agreed upon by Paris city hall and the Paris Police Prefecture (part of the Interior Ministry, in charge of emergency measures in the capital).

After the COVID-19 lockdown hit and we were eventually allowed out and about again, it was amazing to see the city with at most a handful of European tourists — as beautiful as ever, but blissfully empty. I have three decades of experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and travel writer-photographer. Paris Tourism reports that Greater Paris attracted 38 million tourists in 2019, a shocking visitor-to-resident ratio when you consider the fact that central Paris has only 2.1 million dwellers.