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So, I'm leaving ilxland for next week to decamp in Paris. What is there to do there, besides the usual touching from a distance tourist activities?

― david h (david h), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

buy yummy food from local shops that's very cheap? go on the mad roller-blade round paris at night thing?

― angela (angela), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread better be full by the time I get back. New "check the Momus awards 2000 for that freaky little Cafe" answers. Alternatively, Momus to thread. (Welcome back ilx's favourite Scotland as well, please. Welcome back Nick.)

― david h (david h), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Scotlander. SCOTLANDER!

― david h (david h), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr howie away with your scotlander league table assumptions ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 23 September 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

If it's warm out, pack a bag lunch & go to the Rodin Museum (it's not too far from the National Assembly). Then go to the way back of the garden behind the house- this summer they had some great wooden lounge chairs out there that were really comfy and my favorite picnic spot.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Pere Lachaise is well worth a visit.

apart from that I recommend wandering around looking at things and eating croque madames and drinking little coffees and demis.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

The UGC arthouse thing on the Champs Elysee is very nice.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

walk. walk more. watch the well-dressed French children play with toy boats and on the carousel at the Jardin de Luxembourg. Look at the tapestries at the Musee de Cluny. Go to the Musee d'Orsay on Tuesday when the Louvre is closed. walk.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

But don't be afraid to take the Metro when you're feeling tired. That was my mistake.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

chances are i'm going to study there in the spring...

anyone know what monmartre is like these days ?

― mike (ro)bott, Monday, 23 September 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

It's on a hill, with a lot of artist types and a big cathedral.

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, I'd maybe check out: St. Germaine des Pres district (has some neat CD shops/student-type stuff), ride the Bateaux Mouche, Jeux de Paume (art museum place near the Champs Elysees), Musee d'Orsay is nice, The Pantheon (building where all the French heroes are buried, like Voltaire, Hugo, Madam Curie, etc.), the St. Chapelle (is that what it's called?) stained glass chapel, maybe go have a picnic on the grounds of Versailles...

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Le Bistro des Deux Theatres which is on Rue Blanche, nearest Metro is Opera (i'm almost certain)in the 9th arrondissment, is great value and the food is very good. They throw in a couple of complimentary Kirs also. Definitely visit Pére Lachaise and I also discovered a gorgeous little restaurant in a very picturesque mosque near the Sorbonne, sorry can't remember the name, but I don't think it would be too difficult to locate - it's well worth a visit.

― Saskia, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

the stories about parisian gangs buying monkeys and training 'em to attack their enemies, true or false ?

no-one in the french department agrees on this.

― mike (ro)bott, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

stalingrad
odeon
etoile
st lazare
boucicot

bastille
strasbourg st denis
pigalle
barbes rochechouart
pyramides

i'll email you tomorrow david

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang around the Canal St Martin in the 10e (M: Goncourt/Republique). Good place to live too, the south of the 10e. Do go to the Centre Pompidou. There's a cool flea market (forget Clignancourt) at Porte de Montreuil (prob only on Sat/Sun though). Just walk around a lot!
Clubs: the Batofar in the 13e (I think that's the right arrondissement..)..Divan du Monde in Pigalle.. Record shopping in the 11e on rue Keller.
Museums: Cluny, the Musee Jacquemart Andre (sp?) in the 8e..

― Daria Gray, Monday, 23 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

apparement bar = lovely, in the third iirc and my friend lives way above it.

have a coffee in the d'orsay and see the polar bear made of marble, after walking across the fantastic Solferino bridge.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Walking around is the best and cheapest entertainment going. Some interesting areas include: Montparnasse, Montmatre, Pigalle, Bastille, St. Germain, Quartier Latin, St.Denis/Sebastopol, the Marais.... Go to Pont des Arts around sunset and mock the neo-hippies. The mosque near Jardin des Plantes is really cool. The Louvre isn't too busy Monday and Wednesday nights. The science museums are all crap. The art museums are excellent, esp. d'Orsay, Picasso, & the museum of African & Oceanic art.

Avoid Moulin Rouge (expensive and cheesy), place de Tertre in Montmatre (crowded and unfun), & Versailles on the weekend.

Get a weekly metro pass (=carte orange hebdo) 'cause the 3-day tourist pass is a scam. Watch out for gypsy children.

You're welcome to email me if you have any questions.

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Buy me a copy of Beikoku Ongaku?

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

What's that Starry, you tell me, and it is yours. (That is, presuming its a book or a CD, and after I've bought Katy's birthday presents, wooopps... V. late.)

― david h (david h), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh it's a Japanese music magazine which they sell in a few shops in Paris (and apparently Tower here but I can NEVER find a copy in there, sigh)... I can give you some pence/EUROS twds it... they sell in Colette apparently.

Ooh they sell it HERE: (so all these places are probably cool)

Colette
213 rue Saint-Honore 5001 Paris
T. 01 55 35 33 90
www.colette.fr

Galerie du jour - Agnes b.
44 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
T. 01 44 54 55 90
www.agnesb.fr

Tokyoite
12 rue du roi de Sicile 75004
T. 01 42 77 87 01

O.F.R. System
30 rue Beaurepaire. 75010 Paris
T. 01 42 45 72 88
www.ofrpublications.com

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it spensive?

― david h (david h), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh yes, and cd you buy me the Hermes Chandon bracelet, medium sized, please, I'll give you a few pence/euros twds it . . .

Just kidding! pls don't let that stop you form getting Starry's mag

do you still get duty free now that you're One Europe?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

go to the center pomidiou(sp) and send me a balthus postcard.

― anthony (anthony), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Bump.

I'm going to be in Paris from Friday until Tuesday - I've been before and done all the obvious things. Anyone want to recommend cool non-tourist trail things I can do - cool bars, cafes, little galleries etc? Also clubs playing young person's dance music, preferably in the style of Bangalter and friends, that would be nice.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno about dance music, but maybe see what's happening in les instants chavires in montreuil.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i read the thread title as "things to do in pairs."

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to Restaurant Dans-Le-Noir. Run by blind people, you eat in total darkness. Quite a bizarre experience.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Le Pulp (bld. poissonière, Paris IIè) is the place you're looking for. the resident DJs are Ivan Smagghe and Chloé (she's great really)
but you won't hear them if you come on friday...

― --bruno, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

pick up an issue of Nova magazine--it's a monthly that has a good list of cool club/music events. you should also surf http://www.parissi.com/

also check out this cool art squat/gallery
http://www.59rivoli.org/

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Revive coz

OHMIGOD, I'M GOING TO PARIS!!!

The tickets are booked. I don't know if the hotel is booked, but I trust Catty on that one.

Where's the most Goff stuff? We don't want to see art galleries or trendy record shops. We want to see CATACOMBS and UNDERGROUND CITIES and LOST RIVERS and CREEPY MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE and stuff like that. Who is the Ackroyd of Paris, where can I find this stuff out?

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the catacombs is so fucking cool

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

How do we get there? Is there a tour? Will it be expensive?

Or will gutter urchins steal the keys, lead us down there, get us lost and mug us?

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

check out Les Caves St. Sabin and Les Caves le Chapelais. They're both nightclubs located in CAVES! Le Chapelais usually has some goth stuff going on (no surprise), as well as other types of parties.

The Marais has lots of medieval architecture...it's more charming than creepy though.

speaking of Goths....they also refer to goths as "Curistes"--as in one who like the Cure. ha!

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the walter benjamin of the arcades project is the ackroyd of paris, i guess, only not dud.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

CAVES!

I think I went to the St. Sabin once. 'Cave' really just means cellar or wine cellar in these cases though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(yes, Walter Benjamin definitely not dud! Take a look at that, and then lament how many arcades etc were obliterated by Haussmann. Also may be worth looking at Atget collections for a pictorial documentation, although those run the same risk of describing things no longer there.)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a few arcades worth seeing. one of the grandes boulevards not far from opera. one near les halles. i wouldn't lament their passing that much. it's a bit telegraph, isn't it, architectual conservatism?

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It was immensely liberating to have arcades in the early 19th century where all classes could mingle and shop, sheltered from the elements. Sort of a precursor to the mall, though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost uh, are you calling me an architectural conservatist? I shouldn't even be on this thread, I've never been to Paris! but I love the Arcades Project and was sad to discover, when studying it, that a lot of what Benjamin wrote about was destroyed under Haussmann's agenda. But whatever. I'd love to see the remaining ones in person.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There are acouple on the right bank.

http://www.insecula.com/salle/MS01127.html

http://www.parisinconnu.com/passages/vivienn1.htm

That second link has several passages and galeries.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't being that blunt! but there's a fairly clear conservative agenda in benjamin's book. things do get destroyed, medieval street patterns are erased, it takes some effort to reject modernity in toto. that said, hausmann's agenda was horrible, and the arcades are cool.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i'ts worth lamenting insofar as present-day les halles is HORRIBLE

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.parisinconnu.com/passages/images/verodod1.jpg

I went here in November.

Haussmann is an easy target and not all he did was bad.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanted to see some of those when I was in Paris but there was so much other crap to do I never got the chance. and I was there for almost two weeks!

kate, I can't remember how to get to the catacombs but if you look in any guide you'll find them. they're in the south eastern part of the city (I think). there is a tour. make sure you go to the bathroom before you start.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Les Halles is being rebuilt, thank God. There are still plenty of arcades in Paris. Mainly in the 1st and 2nd arrondissements.

http://www.paris-touristoffice.com/va2/parimages/convivial_passages/page06.html

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread also had some good suggestions:
Tell me about Paris.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

One really great thing to do in Paris is to feed crumbs of day old baguette to Parisian ants and watch them struggle to carry them back to their nest.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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Maybe that doesn't fit your definition of 'pretty' though?

― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

i like the elevated metro lines too... especially the one that runs from stalingrad (or earlier) to barbes. i always liked that ride, and walking underneath the tracks, and the market there on the weekends. i have lots of photos.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm visiting paris from the evening of the 31st to mid-day on the 4th and trying to fit in as much as humanly possible in that time, much of which may be played by ear, but lots of which may involve eating and drinking, so meeting up with people would be great but perhaps difficult to plan in advance

i live in NYC, so i'm a lot more interested in the caricaturesque areas than skyscraper action. but i do want to get at least somewhat off the tourist path and also see immigrant paris, though i gather all you have to do for the latter is step into the metro or RER. belleville also held some appeal because there are supposed to be old areas there.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

you want to look at some immigrants?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Immigrants ROCK!

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

are there better (prettier?) places to see 'real' paris?

this is priceless.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

oh, and by st denis i meant the faubourg, not the banlieue

you want to look at some immigrants?

i want to stare, attempting to penetrate their inscrutable otherness, while enjoying a frisson of pleasure from poverty-tourism, duh

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

and yes in my my first time in paris since i was 5 and last time until who knows when i would like to maximize the pretty

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Belleville is cool, I used to live quite close to there. also what about visiting Barbes-Rochechouart? I'll repeat my recommendation of the Canal St Martin in the 10th, it's gorgeous, and not touristy at all..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i'm definitely seeing the canal. is there a best day/time to do so?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

At 6pm, in time for the apero on a terrasse.

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

excellebt. any day, really?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

thursday the 17th

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, if you want to see immigrants visitingmy area is the answer! Barbès-Rochechouart, and then either walking north towards Clignancourt is definitely a cool "viewing immigrants" experience, with lots of hustle and bustle. There also happen to be a lot of cheap textiles to buy, kind of the opposite of the glamorous Paris shopping experience. Oh, and African and Middle Eastern food, of course.

― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

and belgian food ("quick", in front of the metro !)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

hahah quick!!

my friend used to live right above that one!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

don't tell gabby to go to le quick FFS. although i do prefer it to flunch.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with quick ? i think it's great ! much better than mcdonalds, anyway.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

yes, there is a KFC in the area, too, but I think gabbneb will avoid all of this.

I think quick is MUCH worse than Mcdonald's, both times I have been the food was barely rewarmed and all rubbery. At least Mcdonald's is predictably boring.

I've just been told about a place that makes 'huge' hamburgers that are supposedly great, in the area of the 18th roundabouts. Hollywood Burger or something like that. I should look it up, can anyone back this up? Once when I was hungover I actually craved a hamburger.

― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

At least, there's no apparent rats in Mc Donalds (except for some managers, possibly). I have seen some in the Quick at Metro Blanche.

We once had a brilliant fast food company in France, it was called Freetime, but it disappeared in the late 80's.

― snowballing (snowballing), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Go to Chez Janou in the Marais, it is my favourite restaurant, 90+ different varieties of Pastis.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Planet Hollywood! On the Champs Elysées!

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

hamburgers are the best hangover food ! (but i have to totally disagree with your mcdonalds>quick statement. it's crazee).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

i also have a kfc right beside my place... very good hangover food too...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

chez janou is indeed teh awesomeness! and its genuinely surly waitstaff is fantastic.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

i liked belleville a lot, but, ironically given its name, it's not exactly "pretty" in that ooh la paree kind of way.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

How pricey is this chez janou place? Is it more of a "le brunch" place or dinnertime date place?

― richardk (Richard K), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

I really liked the Musée du Monde Arabe.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

You can eat well at chez janou for 30 odd euros and maybe 35 even ones with wine and pastis. It's very loud and bustly so I wouldn't say a date place, if you want candles and music go somewhere else, waitstaff are indeed surly, but also camp in places and not as bad as some places.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Well you can compare and contrast the delights of Belleville with those of London's delightful Mount Pleasant, if you like. Transnational inappropriate name FITE.

I wanted to see have a wander around Belleville too, and it so happened that I was reading that Georges Perec piece in which he re-visits at six monthly intervals the street where he grew up, as it slowly changed and eventually died. There's a cute (and very steep) little park there now. I walked there from the Marais and it was completely worth it, especially when I saw the view from the terrace at the top of the park. Marvellous.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Hah - I used to live at Mount Pleasant Hill...

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

was your one also named after a midden?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

the park in belleville is "les jardins de belleville". it's just behind my place. very nice indeed. great view and when it's hot and sunny you have people bathing around, pique niques, guitars... aaah le gai paris... (except the fact that the last time she went there, my girlfriend got attacked and stolen her mobile phone. beautiful yet rough area. so exciting !)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I checked out Chez Janou--excellent! Exactly as described, especially with regards to the terribly rude but not inefficient waitstaff. I especially seemed to make the bartender angry when I assumed arriving early and waiting for my late friends would get me a 3-person table.

My friends were impressed, though, and now I have the upper hand in the 'picking cool restaurants' contest, thanks to the mysterious 'web site' I used.

MORE PLEASE!!

― rk, Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Still waiting for an answer.

Also, if any of you paris ilxors are around, would you be up for a gabbneb-themed fap?

― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

movies.

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

more!! i go tomo.

any opinions of Rex?

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Heya, visiting Paris this weekend, been scouring the threads for tips and found some cool stuff, but what is there to do in the evening besides the obvious (food/clubs/bars) are there any good areas for walking people watching or sightseeing type stuff?

― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 24 January 2011 11:23 (fifteen years ago)

Centre Pompudou is essential of you like newish art but that's an obvious one I guess

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

Rex Club was fun too

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

palais de tokyo if you want to see more newish art (and its open til midnight iirc)

― just sayin, Monday, 24 January 2011 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks, I will definitely be visiting the Pailais de Tokyo as I'm going to Paris to see a Basquiat exhibition next door at the Musee D'arte Moderne. I kinda fancy going up the Montparnasse tower as it seems to have an awesome 360 degree view of the city, wonder if it's any good at night.

― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 24 January 2011 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/?zone=FR

― Canaille help you (Michael White), Friday, 25 January 2013 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I'll be in Paris from the 10th to the 13th with no real plans besides seeing Fleetwood Mac on the 11th and hanging around in cafes and pubs - which ones, I don't know. Anyone got any suggestions? I'll most likely be staying in the 11th or 12th arrondissement.

― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 6 October 2013 00:15 (twelve years ago)

If you are ataying in and around the 12th, Le Batofar is an old decommissioned lighthouse boat turned club and a nice hang, along the banks of the Seine just south of Bercy

― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Sunday, 6 October 2013 08:25 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

the Musée Gustave Moreau is incroyable: you'll feel like you're living with des Esseintes, and this staircase is beyond belief:

http://ecolebrecheauxloups.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/escaliers-gustave-moreau.jpg

― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:23 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

Nice... Maybe we will see that when we are there next week

― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 November 2014 15:03 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

I'm visiting for the first time next week. Staying in the smack dab center of the Latin Quarter. Visiting Cluny, Louvre, Shakespeare and Co., Sainte Chappelle. Because I once read about it in a book, I'm eating Le Relais de l'Entrecote. What else to do / where else to go on limited funds?

― kellyanne amway (remy bean), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:33 (nine years ago)

It should be relatively warm and not too wet. spend ample time in the Jardin du Luxembourg. there's a De Clercq ("les rois de la frite") nearby, and you can bring your 1kg of frites (for like 4,50 euros I think?) to the park and watch passersby. Not that I've ever done that.

other recommendations would depend on what you like to do, obv. the famous sites are famous for good reason for the most part and you can easily have a great time just doing those. it's school vacation next week fwiw.

― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 9 February 2017 17:42 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

Any recommendations for tween friendly activities en Paris next week? We're staying in Montmartre, so obvs my daughters will be experiencing extreme Paris Syndrome as they realise it's not just like Amelie/Moulin Rouge.

― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 28 March 2022 08:31 (four years ago)

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