IF YOU VISIT PARIS, THINK OF STAYING IN AN AREA THAT MOST TOURISTS OVERLOOK
For starters, transportation is excellent, for three bus and three métro lines intersect at City Hall.
Then, it has a unique hotel, which a family has run for 30 years. I recommend it for its...
Hotel web site
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A young man who works for City Hall explains recycling details.
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To discover the neighborhood take the walk just described, which highlights...
- Place de la Commune and its contradictory signs.
- Third World rebels' start as revolutionaries.
- An exceptional urban transformation.
For lunch...
- Picnic in one of the parks, with cheese from this shop.
Genty gastronomie
169 boulevard Vincent Auriol
(a few minutes from parc de Choisy)
It does is own aging and suggests special deals. For baguettes, there's a pleasant boulangerie across the street.
- Or in a quiet, shaded square, choose among the two inexpensive restaurants for discerning locals (on place des Alpes, across the street):
Crêperie Paris Breizh
It has are two terraces, one for non-smokers (a rarity).
Comparison: At Le bac à glaces, in the tony 7th district, all crêpes are 15€. Here they cost 9-15 €, and are better. Both are organic.
- Or Italian home cooking. The pizza crust is exceptionally light.
The street barriers protect a school, so you dine on a terrace with no passage of cars.
Restaurant Verdi
Such change is happening throughout Paris:
For a video, please click.
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Facing that terrace...
The school the barriers protect
The École des Arts et Métiers, avenue Stephen-Pichon |
A former factory
Knowing the neighborhood's past
gives it another dimension
and reminds how lucky we are
to be living now.
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