An insider's guide to the perfect trip to Paris

An Irish woman living in Paris, Emma Kennedy has the insider’s guide to the city

During the 2008 US election, a simple stencilled poster of Barack Obama, with the word ‘hope’ in large print, came to represent the campaign.

This iconic image is easy to recognise, so anyone who knows it would certainly do a double-take should they find themselves on a residential street in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, in the south-east of the city.