3 Great French City Tours

Each of the individual tours are available to purchase separately at LoDingo. However by choosing the 3 Great France Audio Tours you will SAVE $10.00

Download walking tours of France onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As you wander through the streets along the route we've planned for you let our city guides tell you where to go and what to look out for.

Nice MP3 City Guide

Starting at the iconic Negresco, our guide to Nice which takes about four or five hours, depending on how many breaks you take, will tell you about the Englishman who established the Promenade des Anglais, and his compatriot who introduced the noonday gun as well as the tragic story of the Rumanian founder of the Negresco.

Hidden away amongst the cafés and displays of suntan lotion, we'll show you the Croix de Marbre, the spot where a king, an emperor and a pope met in Nice to make peace – and promptly fell out again.  The composer of great hymns such as Abide with Me is buried in the Anglican Church and, as our Nice audio guide willl point out, exactly where.

After the vast modern Place Masséna, we'll help you explore the old town, Le Vieux Nice, with its beautiful flower market show you Matisse's house once lived – and we'll tell you the grim story behind the religious order founded there.?  On your audio guide to Nice we'll talk about the historic cathedral – and point out the best ice cream in town.  You'll learn about one of the most intriguing but less well known museums the Palais Lascaris and hear about Garibaldi, the great Italian leader's connection with Nice.

Paris – Grand Monuments

Our tour includes some of the most famous sites and some little known facts about them.

• Louvre
• Hotel de Ville
• Notre Dame
• Sainte Chappelle
• Panthéon
• Musée d’Orsay
• Les Invalides
• Eiffel Tower
• Arc de Triomphe

It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of the best known but as you walk through the elegant squares and broad boulevards, we’ll show you what other tourists will miss.

We start with the Louvre and reveal what one of its most famous residents brought with her from Florence that has since become synonymous with France. We’ll tell you where the Tuileries Gardens gets it name from. Then we’ll take you to the official centre of France and explain exactly what the beautiful but sometimes mysterious carvings on the cathedral of Notre Dame mean as you look up at them.

We’ll take you to the most beautiful church in Paris – and show you the dungeons nearby it where over 3,000 people waited to be guillotined during the Revolution.

Walk with us through the Left Bank and discover the Pantheon and the Boulevard Saint Germain. We’ll show you one of the best food markets in Paris and explain why the great short story writer Guy de Maupassant had lunch at the top of the Eiffel tower every day.

We finish our tour at the Arc de Triomphe and show how it fits into a striking pattern of great arches, new and old, across this elegant city

Paris – Romance and Revolution

An unlikely combination of romance and revolution makes for a memorable tour:

• Place de la Concorde
• Madeleine
• Opera
• Palais Royal
• Pompidou Centre
• The Marais
• Place de Bastille
• Ile Saint Louis

This tour of some of the quieter, less well known parts of the perennially romantic city of Paris actually starts at one of its liveliest, most famous sites - the Place de la Concorde.

But here too we bring you something new - by revealing its names over the centuries as Paris was rocked by revolution and explaining what you’re looking at as you look at it.  We’ll tell you, for instance, why Parisians would once have lived in terror of one of the grand mansions which borders it.

Later you’ll learn about the best food shop in Paris and what monks have to do with cappuccino.  The secrets of the Garnier Opera house are revealed and the tour goes on to show how one speech in the gardens of the Palais-Royal, although peaceful and rarely crowded today, sparked the French Revolution of 1789.

After strolling through the romantic, historic Marais district and exploring one of the most elegant, tranquil squares in Paris, you’ll arrive at the Place de Bastille where you’ll hear why its liberation was actually something of an anti-climax.  Finally you’ll arrive in the charming but overlooked Ile Saint Louis with its quiet streets and excellent cafes and restaurants.

Simon Brooke is an award winning journalist and travel writer who has written for The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times amongst others. He is the author of two novels.

Each of the individual tours are available to purchase separately at LoDingo. However by choosing the 3 Great France Audio Tours you will SAVE $10.00

Download walking tours of France onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As you wander through the streets along the route we've planned for you let our city guides tell you where to go and what to look out for.

Nice MP3 City Guide

Starting at the iconic Negresco, our guide to Nice which takes about four or five hours, depending on how many breaks you take, will tell you about the Englishman who established the Promenade des Anglais, and his compatriot who introduced the noonday gun as well as the tragic story of the Rumanian founder of the Negresco.

Hidden away amongst the cafés and displays of suntan lotion, we'll show you the Croix de Marbre, the spot where a king, an emperor and a pope met in Nice to make peace – and promptly fell out again.  The composer of great hymns such as Abide with Me is buried in the Anglican Church and, as our Nice audio guide willl point out, exactly where.

After the vast modern Place Masséna, we'll help you explore the old town, Le Vieux Nice, with its beautiful flower market show you Matisse's house once lived – and we'll tell you the grim story behind the religious order founded there.?  On your audio guide to Nice we'll talk about the historic cathedral – and point out the best ice cream in town.  You'll learn about one of the most intriguing but less well known museums the Palais Lascaris and hear about Garibaldi, the great Italian leader's connection with Nice.

Paris – Grand Monuments

Our tour includes some of the most famous sites and some little known facts about them.

• Louvre
• Hotel de Ville
• Notre Dame
• Sainte Chappelle
• Panthéon
• Musée d’Orsay
• Les Invalides
• Eiffel Tower
• Arc de Triomphe

It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of the best known but as you walk through the elegant squares and broad boulevards, we’ll show you what other tourists will miss.

We start with the Louvre and reveal what one of its most famous residents brought with her from Florence that has since become synonymous with France. We’ll tell you where the Tuileries Gardens gets it name from. Then we’ll take you to the official centre of France and explain exactly what the beautiful but sometimes mysterious carvings on the cathedral of Notre Dame mean as you look up at them.

We’ll take you to the most beautiful church in Paris – and show you the dungeons nearby it where over 3,000 people waited to be guillotined during the Revolution.

Walk with us through the Left Bank and discover the Pantheon and the Boulevard Saint Germain. We’ll show you one of the best food markets in Paris and explain why the great short story writer Guy de Maupassant had lunch at the top of the Eiffel tower every day.

We finish our tour at the Arc de Triomphe and show how it fits into a striking pattern of great arches, new and old, across this elegant city

Paris – Romance and Revolution

An unlikely combination of romance and revolution makes for a memorable tour:

• Place de la Concorde
• Madeleine
• Opera
• Palais Royal
• Pompidou Centre
• The Marais
• Place de Bastille
• Ile Saint Louis

This tour of some of the quieter, less well known parts of the perennially romantic city of Paris actually starts at one of its liveliest, most famous sites - the Place de la Concorde.

But here too we bring you something new - by revealing its names over the centuries as Paris was rocked by revolution and explaining what you’re looking at as you look at it.  We’ll tell you, for instance, why Parisians would once have lived in terror of one of the grand mansions which borders it.

Later you’ll learn about the best food shop in Paris and what monks have to do with cappuccino.  The secrets of the Garnier Opera house are revealed and the tour goes on to show how one speech in the gardens of the Palais-Royal, although peaceful and rarely crowded today, sparked the French Revolution of 1789.

After strolling through the romantic, historic Marais district and exploring one of the most elegant, tranquil squares in Paris, you’ll arrive at the Place de Bastille where you’ll hear why its liberation was actually something of an anti-climax.  Finally you’ll arrive in the charming but overlooked Ile Saint Louis with its quiet streets and excellent cafes and restaurants.

Simon Brooke is an award winning journalist and travel writer who has written for The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times amongst others. He is the author of two novels.