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Annabel Simms
Paris-based writer
Annabel Simms is a Londoner who came to Paris in 1991 on a year's sabbatical from her job as a teacher-trainer in adult education, and never left. She now works as a freelance English teacher and writer.
An Hour From Paris, her 2002 guide to 20 little-known places in the Paris countryside accessible by train, was the fruit of more than ten years' happy exploring of the region ('Ile de France') by train, bus and on foot. She illustrated her selection from the hundreds of places she had visited with specially drawn maps, based on her experience of visiting little-known and little-mapped places on foot. It was an unexpected success. She continues to make new discoveries on her weekend country walks, experience which is incorporated into the fully revised 2008 edition.
Her other publications include articles on yoga, bird-watching, sailing and dancing, as well as on Paris and the Ile de France for The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Financial Times, Paris Voice, Paris Notes and France Today.
Signing copies at WH Smith in Paris at the launch of the new edition of An Hour From Paris
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