BUSINESS CONTACTS

Mobile phones for hire can be found at Rentacell Express, 14 rue Magellan, 75008 (Tel: 53 93 78 00, Email: info@rent-cellular.com).

Car hire All the main rental firms have branches at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports and at the Paris mainline stations. Avis (Tel from France: 0 820 024 034, Tel from abroad: 44 18 10 54, www. avis.fr). Europcar (www.europcar.fr). Hertz (www.hertz.fr).

Taxis Contact G7 Taxis (Tel: 47 39 47 39). Office rental is provided by ATEAC (Tel: 08 11 46 20 00, www.ateac.com, Email: contact@ateac.com) which has serviced business centres and meeting rooms on the Champs-Elysées and at five other Paris addresses. Instant Offices (www. instant-offices.com) also rents space. Bilingual secretarial services Contact Adia (Tel: 47 16 11 02, Email: a524@adia.fr).

LOCAL PRESS

Paris’s listing magazines all come out on Wednesday (the day of new cinema releases). For listings in English, look out for new listings freebie Go Go Paris, stocked in trendy bars and shops, or go online to www.whatsonwhen.com for what’s happening in the capital. It’s also worth checking out the Paris tourist board website www.parisinfo.com.