I’m Gaëlle, a Parisian by adoption, and I’m a lover of the capital and all the discoveries it has to offer.
I created this blog in October 2011 to share my tips, outings, discoveries, favorite addresses, travels, and personal favorites.
This blog is not how I make a living, and I have a full-time job alongside my blog, which leads to a crazy schedule as you can imagine.
Among my numerous reviews (whether they are restaurants, hotels, travel, beauty salons, etc.), a large portion of them are invitations I receive from various service providers. If I have been invited, I try to mention it in the body of the article; if I say nothing on the subject, it’s because I paid for it like a normal customer (which also happens to me, rest assured).
Another important point: just because I am invited does not mean I lose my free will. I try to remain objective (based on my own tastes, of course) and to convey to you what I sincerely thought of the experience. If I really hated a place or an experience (which rarely happens, as I try to carefully select the proposals made to me), I won’t talk about it on my blog.
Last point: I negotiate quite fiercely with my partners for giveaways so that I can offer you nice prizes in the various contests that I organize via my blog or my social networks. I always try to negotiate to receive the prize myself too, but please know that sometimes you are the only ones to benefit (you lucky ones).
Most of the photos illustrating the blog are taken by me or by my favorite photographer, Nicolas (or ‘the man in the hat,’ it depends!), who is also my partner (incidentally!).
Since he is a professional photographer, his help allows me to focus on writing articles, which is already time-consuming enough… On top of that, he handles site management, video creation, and sometimes writes articles… In short, over the years, we have become a true blogging couple!
To discover more of Nicolas’s work, I invite you to take a look at his site or his Instagram (@nicolasdiolez). The photos on the blog are not free to use (even for posting on social media), and it is forbidden to download them without his prior agreement. You can contact him for this at this email address: nicolas.diolez[at]gmail.com.
And what about the @mellebonplan Instagram account?
All the photos taken on my Instagram account are taken by me with my mobile phone, a Samsung S8. I know I could get much better photos with a camera, but I want my Instagram gallery to remain very current, and I love posting in the moment when I’m experiencing something. So, to keep that spontaneous and lightly edited side, for now, I want to keep posting with my phone.
My contributors
Today, I only have occasional contributors: Julie for Cinema and Valérie for Culture, but they only publish a few articles per year.
This is because I really want to personally handle all the other sections of the blog.
