IF YOU VISIT PARIS, THINK OF STAYING IN AN AREA THAT MOST TOURISTS OVERLOOK
The junction of three bus and three métro lines at City Hall put the area about 20 minutes from the center.
If you plan in advance you can stay in an excellent hotel, which a family has held for over 30 years. A friend writes... "Can you suggest a modest hotel?The place you found for us a few years ago that you found was very nice."
It was Le Vert Galant :
Hotel web site
- Intimacy.
- Rooms that give out onto its private garden.
- An excellent price / quality ratio.
- An excellent basque restaurant, patronized by people from the neighborhood.
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A young man who works for City Hall explains recycling details.
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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 choose between two inexpensive restaurants for discerning locals on a quiet, shaded square across the street (place des Alpes).
Crêperie Paris Breizh
The street barriers protect a school, so you dine on a terrace with no passage of cars.
For both, recent greening makes dining even more pleasant.
Such change is happening throughout Paris:
for a video, please click.
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Facing those restaurants:
The school the barriers protect
The École des Arts et Métiers, avenue Stephen-Pichon |
A former factory
Start here to explore
a largely undiscovered city.
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