International Women’s Day in Paris from 6th – 13th March 2011

International Women’s Day in Paris
from 6th – 13th March 2011

Our favourite things

The French being the French, we’re celebrating « the day » over a whole week!Do you think Juliette Récamier would have dreamt that one day we would celebrate International Women’s Day? Probably not. And how does one celebrate it nowadays? Well, with some rather bizarre events, if the Parisian line-up is anything to go by. Not much going on, apparently, with a couple of events adding the day as an afterthought rather than as a central theme.

Take, for instance, Toutes en Moto (which translates something like « Hey ladies, get on your motorbikes! ») on Sunday 6th March 2011. Organised by and for women who enjoy motorbikes, they’ll be meeting up just in front of the Château de Vincennes (here) at 2pm before driving through the city. And if you have a male friend who would like to accompany you, that’s cool too.

You can check out the route here. Facebook group (in French) here.

The Paris council is organising « Femmes en Sport » here on Sunday 13th March 2011. It turns out to be a free seance of « nordic walking » (?), running, Swedish gym and African dance. International indeed! And for the laziest of women, there are free shuttle buses to get you there and back even! More info (in French) here.