16th Arrondissement - Auteuil Passy: Paris

Well, everyone says this arrondissement is a snooze... well, just everyone in the under-thirty set -- you know the sorts...who spend their weekends and a couple of weekday mornings bowing naked to the porcelin gods after waking up in strangers apartments then jumping back into their berets and sneaking out to get a pain chocolate and smoke a fag before making their way home. For sporty or aesthetic sorts, deep thinkers, shoppers with deep pockets and people who appreciate the highlife without being flashy... this is the arrondissement for you. While the 17th arrondissement, this arrondissement's neighbor has sedate, undeniably picturesque, Parc Monceau, the 16th has got the wild and sauvage, just downright sexy Bois de Boulogne -- the second largest park in Paris if you can really call it a park, it is more like a large wooded area that a girl/or a guy or both can get lost in and not see another person with the exception of the occassional transvestite prostitute or serious jogger for a whole 10 minutes (a rare event in Paris). And while the 16th ain't got no club scene like Bastille or Oberkampf... or probably not even a club except for some soothing club soda, it does have Trocadero and fanatstic views onto the Eiffel Tower, it has shopping at Place Victor Hugo and driving down Avenue Foch, it has got the Musee de l'homme, Musée de Chaillot and the Musee Guimet and some very expensive bio and outdoor markets on the weekend. This is the place to be in Paris when you need to chill.