Paris in Jan?

OK, I have read and read, now for the hard questions! I want to spend all of Jan. in Paris...why, because I can and have always wanted to. I have made many an overnight near the airport and once near the Eiffel Tower, but now want to go and stay.

What will the weather be? I find a variety of forecasts!!!

I am 54 and not into trendy clubs or discos. I need advise on neighborhoods with plenty of cafes, lovely walks, and generally peacefuly and pleasant...and jazz clubs! That being one of the BIG reasons I want to spend a month.

I have decided to rent a vacation apartment, as I spend way too much time in hotels for work.

many thanks!!!!

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You can pretty much count on it being cold - not New York or Chicago type cold, but cold nonetheless.

Snow is unlikely but it is possible for a day or two. It will be damp and grey most days and probably downright wet others.

I will be there from mid-Dec to mid-Jan and now live in San Francisco and don%26#39;%26#39;t own a coat (apart from a ski-jkt) - so I just went shopping yesterday for scarves, comfy boots and a warm coat - I always spend a lot of time outdoors in Paris and the weather isn%26#39;t going to stop that.

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The thing about weather is that it is unpredictable and you can pretty much count on the variety of weather to match that variety of forecasts.

Usually November is cold and rainy, but this year I am still wearing my sneakers without socks and have yet to don a hat.

Jazz clubs : the %26quot;best%26quot; is Le Petit Journal Montparnasse. You may want to stay in the 14th near the rue Daguerre, a nice market street near the tourist area, but definitely a local neighborhood. Also might want to look into the southern part of the 5th, near Port Royal.

Le Bilbouquet, Le Cafe Universal and Charlie Birdy are some other clubs to look into, all within a healthy stroll of rue Daguerre or Port Royal %26#39;hoods.

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Basically all hoods in Paris have plenty of cafés, lovely walks, etc. so this is not a very discriminatory factor.

The jazz clubs phread cited are fine... a bit on the tourist and old school side though (no offense, phread! ). Nowadays the more modern Paris jazz scene is on the right bank, with especially a cluster of clubs on the rue des Lombards in Les Halles (Duc des Lombards, Baiser salé, Sunset). More current jazz can be found at Café de la Danse (11th), New Morning (10th), Trabendo (La Villette, 19th), even the Sentier des Halles (2nd) or the Satellit Café (11th) for a more world-jazz slant.

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No offence taken. Got the Petit Journal address from the guy who organizes the Montreuil Jazz Festival, he says it is the best in the city. Figure he knows his stuff.

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Yeah, le Petit Journal is a good club for established, mainstream, international jazz bands, maybe not for edgier, up and coming bands. And, BTW, I assume the festival the guy is organising takes place in %26quot;Montreux%26quot; (one of the wealthiest communities in Europe, by the Léman lake in Switzerland) and not %26quot;Montreuil%26quot; (the world%26#39;s second largest Malian city after Bamako, a bo bo-ised suburb on the East of Paris with a communist mayor).

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