Paris recommendations (non record related!)
tripledouble
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Gonna be in Paris for a couple days in the Buttes-Chaumont neighborhood (NW of center)
anyone have recommendations of what to do with a friend?
nice places to walk, interesting markets (getting there on sunday), cheese shops, other cant miss artisanal things...things of beauty and such.
im not trying to overplan or do intensive sightseeing, but i trust the struts real world experiences to the fullness! regardless, the travael threads always make for interesting conversation.
and definitely not interested in seeing any records!!! i heard le-toupts got the city locked down like bonaparte
anyone have recommendations of what to do with a friend?
nice places to walk, interesting markets (getting there on sunday), cheese shops, other cant miss artisanal things...things of beauty and such.
im not trying to overplan or do intensive sightseeing, but i trust the struts real world experiences to the fullness! regardless, the travael threads always make for interesting conversation.
and definitely not interested in seeing any records!!! i heard le-toupts got the city locked down like bonaparte
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_des_Buttes_Chaumont
Elevated garden walkway: http://www.paris-walking-tours.com/promenadeplantee.html
Jardin de Plantes: http://goparis.about.com/od/sightsattractions/ss/parks_gallery_5.htm
Citroen Park: http://goparis.about.com/od/sightsattractions/ss/parks_gallery_10.htm
Al-Dar (get chicken shwarma wrap; amazing): http://www.zagat.com/r/al-dar-paris-france-0
Brady Passage for Indian food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_Brady
you need to go to the Louvre. it really is glorious and huuuuuge
those are people not ants
also, Jardin du Luxembourg was my favorite park
for some unclich?? views visit Clichy-sous-Bois
my agenda was basically eat a lot of croissants and walk by the sienne
now i can flesh that out a little.
Barbes has got some good african food.
but skip this 2nd recommendation unless you favor ghetto voyeurism. srsly it's a lame suggestion; it would be like telling someone to visit a blighted block of East NY in order to see "the real."
yes. there's hidden monuments all over this city. a little park by the sevres-babylone metro stop has a moving St Exupery memorial.
Somewhere there must be a website or guidebook dedicated to the statues/monuments, and, especially, the cool plaques the municipality puts up on the bldings where famous folks used to stay. you could easily do a whole tour of these.
been a great couple days!
been a great couple days!
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Plus the Marais is a beautiful walking neighborhood. Place des Vosges, Musee Picasso, etc.
Yeah hit le Marais at night and wander around - lots of bars, food, a young crowd out late - and dont forget to hit the diners and jewish delicatessen joints in le marais for good eats -> schwartz' and sacha finkelsztajn.
le marais in the evening
schwartz
Definitely.
Cemetaries got so overcrowded with dead bodies in the 17th century that the whole area around certain cemetaries became "filled beyond saturation with decomposing human remains", so they moved about 6 million human remains into the old city quarries underneath what used to be the outskirts of the city. But there are catacombs all under Paris - lots of urban spelunking going on.
Montmartre is a nice place too for hanging out. It??s a little above so you have good views over the city. Anyway, i would recommend to rent a bike, they??re everywhere and cheap and you get arround easy and fast.
Also Centre Pompidou is a Must:
if you??re into modern art and a perfect contrast to the more old fashioned Louvre.
For shopping check out the stores arround Colette, many nice small labels in that area. (Avoid if you??re with your better half, may cost you a fortune...)
have a good time!
all the strutco recomendations look awesome, the ones i didnt get to i will file away for next time
i definitely ate some snails tho
peace, stein. . .:)