{"id":14343,"date":"2016-03-13T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=14343"},"modified":"2020-04-21T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:28:37","slug":"christie-semmens-three-paris-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2016\/03\/christie-semmens-three-paris-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Semmens’ Three Paris Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christie

Christie Semmens, Seine River, Saint Augustin, Van Gogh and beer taps<\/p><\/div>\n

Often I give advice to travelers and ask them to return the favor with their experiences. Responses to that request would cover the rounded top of a straight pin. But one day I received a response from Christie Semmens of Scribbles and Smiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having seen my story and photos about the Paris Photo walk at Pont Alexandre III<\/a>, Christie wrote: “I’ve been searching for a photo group or photographer who offers a session with helpful instruction; to take photos and help master my Nikon camera a little more.”. She used one of my suggestions and found a perfect match for her photo tour.<\/p>\n

Christie sent me her experience with a photo tour, a transportation company and tidbits on a day trip to Auvers-sur-Oise. Other Paris travelers may find her experiences helpful.<\/p>\n

Christie wrote: “I just wanted to follow-up and tell you that the photo shoot with Alexander JE Bradley photo tours was perfect. I was assigned to Clara, a young professional\u00a0photographer; we spent three hours together photographing and perfecting my technique and a lot of good conversation about many topics, as\u00a0we\u00a0strolled Paris. This was one of the best instructional\u00a0sessions I’ve had in learning to better utilize my DSLR (digital single-lens reflex camera<\/span>) and Clara was a delight. I highly recommend Clara, for sure.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I used Prestige Private Transfer service<\/a>; the\u00a0driver met me at the arrival gate with my name blinking on his phone screen. He assisted me in lugging suitcases and delivered me to my pied-a-terre<\/em> with ease.<\/p>\n

He also helped me place a call to my French landlord for some clarification. The transport van\u00a0was very nice, clean and the\u00a0driver was very polite.\u00a0 I would recommend them to anyone traveling in and around Paris.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, I caught the train at the\u00a0Gare du Nord station\u00a0and went to Auvers-sur-Oise.\u00a0 Of course, most touristy\u00a0businesses were closed in November –\u00a0but the Auvers tourist office<\/a> had a couple of counters of Van Gogh items for sale and it was staffed with sales associates for the souvenirs…no tourist office assistance. At lunch at a local establishment, the owner offered maps and a schedule of what was open in the month of November.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a good day trip to Auvers-sur-Oise, not many tourists, a beautiful Fall day\u00a0to stroll, take photos and walk to the cemetery.<\/p>\n

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I have posted on www.scribblesandsmiles.net<\/a> some memories of Paris.” She also published her Paris insights in the Evansville Courrier & Press\u00a0<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Read more on Colleen’s Paris about taking a day trip to Auvers-sur-Oise<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Often I give advice to travelers and ask them to return the favor with their experiences. Responses to that request would cover the rounded top of a straight pin. But one day I received a response from Christie Semmens of Scribbles and Smiles. Having seen my story and photos about the Paris Photo walk at Pont Alexandre III, Christie wrote: “I’ve been searching for a photo group or photographer who offers a session with helpful instruction; to take photos and ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1114],"tags":[99,867,860,866,759,861,859,868,856],"class_list":["post-14343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-explore","tag-auvers-sur-oise","tag-bloggers","tag-car-service","tag-contributors","tag-day-trip","tag-photo-tour","tag-shuttle","tag-transportation","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Christie-Semmens-image.jpeg?fit=818%2C563&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17783,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions\/17783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}