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‘April in Paris Tours‘ offer customized walking tours to places that aren’t featured in even the best Paris guidebooks. On a walking tour with April, you will experience Paris’ beauty and history from an insider’s perspective.

April Pett is one of those young North Americans (Canadian, actually) who landed in Paris, fell in love with the city, got to know it well and then wanted to share her love and knowledge with the rest of us.

It's fitting that April Pett of "April in Paris Tours" should be speaking at Après Midi...in April, of course. Yep, we planned it that way...

Most tourists don't venture down into the depths of the 15th arrondissement to discover a market or a park or the life of the average Parisian. Even long-time residents such as myself don't normally bother...

Today’s As I write this I'm on the TGV to Nice, catching a network or two using my iPhone's Personal Hotspot while the high speed train zooms along at such a speed that my ears keep popping.

It’s pretty funny, to say the least, but beyond that, one can see the gardens of the museum, the Palais Acropolis, the cemeteries on top the Château de Nice, the Nice Observatory, the Hermitage Palace in Cimiez...

In the City of Light, the illuminations for Christmas are outstanding and we agree that if you’re here soaking up the ambiance, then this tour is a must...

Colleen’s Take Away: This is a guided walk if you want a Paris strolling moment without pressure to move quickly with April. I recommend this tour because while dodging rain drops, protected by umbrellas...

Every year, France’s glorious capital welcomes over 15 million visitors, many of whom spend hours on end queuing up at some of the city’s “must-sees”...

This episode is a little bit different from our usual. Instead of interviewing a researcher, we're talking with one of our graduates. April Pett graduated from our French program in 2007 and has gone on to build up a successful tour company in Paris, France...

She fell for the charms of the French capital as a teenager and now more than a decade later, Canadian expat April Pett has made herself at home in the City of Light and has been inspired to start her own business there too...

The moment I first met April Pett at a local Parisian cafe, I could feel her positive and magnetic energy, expressed through her approachable smile and sparkling eyes...

"In June 2015, I had been living in Paris, France for a year and a half. I had spend every breathing moment discovering the sites, sounds and savours of the city of light...

Today’s episode is a top-20 bonanza! I had tour guide extraordinaire April Pett in the studio to take me on a virtual walk through Paris. She gives her favourite street in each of the 20 Paris arrondissements...

Paris is the most magical city in the world; You just never know what you will stumble upon around the next cobblestoned corner. It is the perfect place to perfect the art of flâner-ing...

When Thorold native April Pett first fell in love with Paris on a high school trip, she never anticipated living in Paris as a business owner only a decade later - and now, that’s just what she’s doing.