www.paris.expatriatesmagazine.com ISSUE 25 Includes EXPATRIATES MAGAZINE 600 audience MEMBERS witness unexpected proposal Football Fixtures WHAT CAN MICKEY MOUSE WANI TEACH YOU MANLY ABOUT YOUR COMEDIANSPUBLISHES EXPAT FIRST BOOK CAREER? UNITE TO LAUNCH A NEW COMEDY CHANNELON YOUR MARKS GET SET ESCARGO! EXPATS JEN AND KATE SET THEMSELVES A CHALLENGE SHKAS FROM PORTLAND TO BEYOND VESTA PARIS OVERCOME ONE BIKAS OF THE TOP HUMAN BIKAS SOCIAL FEARS. SEAN RYAN DISCUSSES JETUSANYAL PUBLIC SPEAKING Frances Isabel Julie Hosler Sergey Kuznetsov Sean Ryan COMMUNITY CITY PRACTICAL GOING OUT SCIENCE LIVING June 27th - July 22nd 2016 - Summer classes and lectures in French or English Literature, history, philosophy, geography, art history, ... - French language courses universite.ete.sorbonne-universites.fr [email protected] + 33 (0)1 53 42 30 39 CONTENTS BIKAS SANYAL FROM HIS WORKS, HIS PORTLAND MARRIAGE AND HIS TO BEYOND LIFE AS AN EXPAT PARIS 16 14 8 FRANCES ISABEL RELEASES EP IMPROVE YOUR PUBLIC 12 SPEAKING 23 UNEXPECTED ON YOUR PROPOSAL TUNISIAN MARKS POSTGRADUATE GET SET NADIA HAD A LIFE-CHANGING ESCARGO MOMENT DURING AN EXPAT TEDXIHEPARIS CHALLENGE 8 Best of Paris 2016 Expatriates Magazine 200 Categories 1100 Nominations Best BookShop Best Coworking Best Expat Business Best Place to Propose Berkeley Books Space Free Persephone Palais Royal Gardens San Francisco Books Hubsy Inspirelle Pont Bir Hakeim WH Smith Co-working loft Kasia Dietz Handbags Trocadero Shakespeare & Company L’anticafe Sightseeker’s Delight Nuage Cafe Rooftop-work Best Pub Quiz Best Burrito Best Expat Event Auld Alliance Pub Black Beans Best Cupcakes Bloom The Highlander BocaMexa Beauty Cakes Fashion Extreme Paris Thirsty Mad Cat Chipotle Berko Lost in Frenchlation El Nopal Berties Cupcakery TEDxIHEParis Best Sports Bar El Sol y La Luna OH MY CAKE Wice Open House Belushis GDN Mexi & Co Miss Cupcake Best Hairdresser Bombardier Pub Sugar Daze Playoff Synie’s Cupcake Polished Hair Care Best Coffee Rock Hair The Great Canadian Holybelly Stephanie Vanderlip Café Oz Hubsy Best Day Trip Vee Hair Le Players KB CaféShop Chantilly Nuage Café Fontainebleau Best Indoor Activity Best Quirky Bar Strada Café Giverny Centre Pompidou Chez Bouboule Provins Cineaqua Gossima Ping Pong Bar Best Comedy Versailles Cité des Sciences Ice KUBE Bar A New Yorker in Paris Le 104 La Lucha Libre French Fried Comedy Night Best Expat Blog Royal Kids Le Lèche-Vin How to become a Parisian in David Leibovitz one hour La Seinographe Best Paris Book Best Vegetarian My Paris Kitchen Restaurant Sorry We’re English Mama Loves Paris Le Potager du Marais The Improfessionals Paris Breakfasts My Paris Story Naughty Paris Maison Bon WTF Paris Paris By Mouth Zoé Bouillon Vote for your choice www.best-in.paris EXPATRIATES EDITOR’S MAGAZINE THE TEAM Expatriates Magazine, ADDRESS 24Bis Rue Paul Bert, Bat D Sud, 92120, Montrouge, France TELEPHONE 09.80.76.77.82 NOTE EMAIL [email protected] June is traditionally a busy month in France for social and cultural activities. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kevin Knight Schools hold their end of year kermess- [email protected] es, associations present their galas, EDITOR Jacqueline Taylor towns organise various communal fêtes, [email protected] and the whole country enjoys the annual JOURNALIST Joelle Renee Hattem Fête de la Musique to celebrate the sum- [email protected] JOURNALIST Subarna Ganguly mer solstice on June 21st. [email protected] This year there is the added bonus of be- ing here for the Euro 2016 which kicks CONTRIBUTORS off on 10th June. You can be sure that, The editor would like to thank the Expatriates Magazine as host to the event, Paris will be focusing on football for the next writing team and all contributors to Expatriates Maga- zine Paris, whose work forms the basis for part of this month or so. The fan zone at the Eiffel Tower is one unique way to magazine. enjoy the matches, on the giant television screen installed just for the occasion (see page 6). There are also various demonstrations WRITERS Jean Taquet and workshops being held by local clubs and football aficionados Jen Mellor throughout the capital and surrounding suburbs. Julie Hosler Rita Golstein-Galperin Even if you are not a fan of the game, the international nature of Sean Ryan Euro 2016 makes it a great means to create interaction between #25 PHOTOS: Anastasia Rufin the different nationalities living here. Companies may be holding Anne Barot sweepstakes for their employees, and clubs and bars having Gabriella Benko themed evenings for the different matches being played. (You will Rob Sitbon, Rebel Cat Productions find a list of the fixtures on page 25.) Whatever the idea, it is an Rubi-Dentzel excellent opportunity for cultural interaction and exchange, and a chance to join in the inevitable post-match debates with our ON THE COVER Bikas Sanyal French hosts. 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The connect- Paris will host its first drone fes- ed Fan Zone tival on September 4th 2016 on will offer sup- the Champs Elysées. Drones porters a rich, have been revolutionizing interactive many areas of life and are gain- experience ing in popularity. They will hold with access to no secrets for you after this fes- all the digital tival! Drone participation is re- content avail- served for industry profession- Paris has created a connected Fan able. als, but the general public will Zone for the duration of EURO 2016, have access to other activities. with high quality Wi-Fi access for all. The largest TV screen ever installed Various sites across Paris will The Eiffel Tower Fan Zone will have in Paris will allow supporters to watch also open later for the general the capacity to welcome up to 92,000 matches in total immersion on a giant public to practice flying their people free of charge at the same screen of 420 m². It will be set up in drones too. 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