one of my favourite places to go in Paris a few years ago was Parc Buttes Chaumont. I'd ride up the canal from Bastille and spend time sitting around drawing and walking around.
Crystal Diamond has been cooking up a brew to share. Boiled down from the last year or so worth of journals she offers a thick concentrate of saucy truthiness hanging in the window of the Workers Club(corner gertude and Brinswick st) click on her blog for more info