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.

BRIAN ROBINSON was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He first visited Paris in 1969 on a family holiday and fell in love with the city. He studied Law at Sussex University's School of European Studies, which required a year's study in France. During the Easter and summer holidays he worked as a tour guide for American high school students across Europe but specialized in Paris. He currently works as a press officer for the British Film Institute in London and regularly travels on Eurostar to his Marais pied-a-terre.