Solo in Paris — quick playbook
- · Stack walkable neighborhoods back-to-back instead of chasing one big sight.
- · Eat at the bar — most good restaurants seat solo diners faster than parties of two.
- · One museum or gallery per day is plenty. Slow beats checklisting when you're alone.
- · Markets, festivals, and street-food strips are the easiest way to feel the city without forcing conversation.
- · Pick a café neighborhood as your "base camp" each morning — coffee, plan, go.
Best things to do alone · 4
Montmartre
Solo ✓ 18e · Culture
Sacré-Cœur views, cobbled lanes and the last working windmill.
Musée d'Orsay
Solo ✓ 7e · Culture
Beaux-Arts station turned Impressionist temple — go for the Van Goghs.
Canal Saint-Martin
Solo ✓ 10e · Outdoors
Iron footbridges, picnic banks and Sunday afternoon natural-wine bars.
Père Lachaise
Solo ✓ 20e · Outdoors
Tree-lined cemetery — Wilde, Chopin, Morrison and the city's quietest hill.
Restaurants that welcome a table of one
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