PAS PASCHALI, in more than 30 years of journalism, has been an arts editor, travel writer, and magazine publisher; he currently works as a freelance journalist for The Guardian. He is also a keen walker and has led groups on long-distance walks in the UK and abroad. His first trip to Paris was in the '70s, and since then he has revisited France countless times to explore its regions. In that time he has written many articles and contributed to a number of guides on the French capital. In the last 15 years he has divided his time between living in London and Paris.