It’s time to start observing your Saints’ Days, and which better to observe than that of St. Valentine?

With Valentine’s Day upon us, let’s have a look at where Cupid canoodles in the streets of Paris. For what’s Paris if not the city of romance!?! Enjoy a very French kiss in any one of these “Top 5” places for pash-ion, and your romantic weekend in Paris will be complete!

1. On the mouth
Well this is an encouraging start – but perhaps I should more appropriately say “at a mouth”… at a bouche de métro! Why not at the mouth of the Abbesses metro station, under the characteristically romantic art nouveau Metropolitan sign (no less!) at the lovely Place des Abbesses? While you’re exploring the area, don’t forget to have a smooch at…

2. Les 2 Moulins
This café is famous for being the workplace of the charming Amélie in the film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. If you are familiar with this film, then I’m sure you get my drift! While an amorous wild-goose chase to the summit of the butte Montmartre, from the square Willette to the basilica Sacré-Coeur might be nice for some, there is always that little toilet and telephone alcove in Les 2 Moulins… if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)!

3. Hôtel de Ville
While we’re on the topic of recreating classic kissing images, you’ll have to make your way to the Hôtel de Ville and have a 1950s embrace, just like the iconic Robert Doisneau image of two lovers, Francoise Bornet and Jacques Carteaud. Bornet sold her copy of the image in 2005 for a tidy sum of 155,000€. Pucker up and take a photo, it could mean fame for posterity and future prosperity!

4. Smooching on skates
Lucky you’re already at the Hôtel de Ville, because now it’s time to rouler un patin! Not sure exactly what this means? Well, let’s find out. If you follow the literal meaning of “to roll a skate”, you’ll be innocently ice-skating around the Hôtel de Ville rink, oblivious to the term’s other meaning. Rouler un patin is what we would call a “French kiss” – so now with that essential piece of information, why not combine the two?

5. Les bancs publics
For the final kissing adventure, you needn’t go any further than your nearest public bench. Take the advice of post-war French crooner, Georges Brassens, and kiss like Les amoureux des bancs publics (“…bancs publics, bancs publics…”) like young lovers at their most scandalous!