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Paris: What to do?
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I’m going to be in Paris for four days next month, never having been before. Anyone got recommendations of what to see/shoot/do/eat/drink/avoid?
Thanks,
Rob
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Rob Strong
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Sun Mar 16 21:49:42 UTC 2008
(ed. Mar 17 2008)
Hanover, NH,
United States
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Last time I was there I bought a day pass for the mtro and used it to get from point to point – kind of a self-done tourist tour – started at Notre Dame and worked my way around. Walked from station to station in interesting areas (i.e. Champs Elyse – stopped there for coffee at a cafe) and then metro’d to the next spot. Covered many of the main sights…Eiffel Tower, L’Arc d’Triumph, Louvre, along the Seine. Ended up at Point Neuf, IIRC…
Was definitely a good day’s worth of sightseeing and street and monument shooting.
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Musee D’Orsay, then walk…
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Forget which day, but early in the morning, about 5am or so behind Notre Dame there is a bird market. Apparently dates back but its an incredible experience of Middle Easterners bargaining and haggling over birds. If you can find out when during the week it is, you’re sure not to be disappointed. If you do, let me know which days it is.
Phil
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I guess you mean Paris/ Texas?
John
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Rue Mouffetard, 5eme Arr. Market on morning.
Place d’Aligre 10eme Arr. Morning Market.
Walk : Place Saint-Germain des Prés (Café des Deux Magots)rue de l’Abbaye-Place Furstenberg-Rue jacob-Rue de Seine-Rue Buci-Rue Saint-André des Arts-Place Saint-Michel-rue de la Huchette-Rue de la Bucherie-Shakespear & Co-Rue Saint-Julien Tea Caddy Notre Dame- Ile Saint-Louis-rue Saint-Louis en L’Ile-Bd Henri IV-Bastille…..
From coming from Square NDame- Toward Iles Saint-Louis Pont Saint-Louis- Jean du Bellay (Cafe Quai d’Orleans Le Flore en L’Ile)- rue du Pont-Louis Philippe Galerie Aghate Gaillard-rue Miron-rue Saint-Antoine-Bastille….
Restaurant Vagenende 142 Bd Saint Germain +33(0)1 43 26 68 18
http://www.vagenende.fr
Café Restaurant
La Charrette
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N° 17 r Beaux Arts 75006 PARIS
o 01 43 25 60 55
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We’re talking PARIS, right?....
let the streets take u where they shall, you shall never know that city anyway enough in a lifetime, only recommendation is this:
keep your eyes, nose, ears, mouth, wide wide open (though watch the pigeons)...nothing else more to add :))
enjoy enjoy
b
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If the weather is nice, the Rodin Museum with its nice garden is one of my favourite spots. It’s not far away from the Orsay museum.
Les Marais, the Place des Vosgues, I also like a lot to just walk around, cafes, etc.
The market at Rue Cler is really nice. Can’t remember which days it opens.
Agree with what Bob said. If you have the time, I would recommend walking rather than taking the metro…
Enjoy,
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1.eat cheese
2.drink wine
3.wear beret
4.shave not
5.smoke gaulloise
6.appear deep and tortured
7.have deep and tortured erotic encounter with beatrice dalle lookalike
8.write incomprehensible lacanian-hermeneutic tractatus
9.throw yourself in the seine
or
10.start a revolution
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montmartre, beautiful view; belleville, lots of bohemian atmosphere; pompidou centre has a great bookstore; eat! anything and everything; and walk everywhere..
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Hook up with two sweet American students (who you take to Montmatre that same night and have the time of your life) while you are desperately lost in Père-Lachaise cemetary, searching for Edith Piaf and Jim Morrisson… Ooh, and drink nothing else but wine!
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Thanks for the advice, all! Surely enough to fill a lifetime of trips; I hope this thread is helpful to anyone else headed there in the near or distant future.
David Sutherland has the points lead right now, but I have one quibble with his list: “or”? Really David, I was thinking more “and” between #’s 9 and 10.
Rob
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do both if poss, but allow plenty of time for 7…
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