VIII.8. A PLACE TO PITCH YOUR TENT?

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 make this outlying area accessible.

A hotel, family-run for 30 years, has..

    Hotel web site

Le Vert Galant

43 rue Croulebarbe
www.vertgalant.com

• Intimacy.

• Rooms that give out onto its private garden.

• A fair price.

• An excellent basque restaurant; where almost all the clients are locals.

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The tranquility comes from being next to the park that now covers over the Bièvre River. Imagining the combat that raged over its islands in 1871 almost impossible.

A young man who works for City Hall explains recycling details.

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Our walks (please click back here and here) highlight:

• Place de la Commune and its contradictory signs.

• Street art.

• The gentle Saint-Anne church.

• Where the philosophies of Third World rebels took hold.  

• 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 choose between two inexpensive restaurants for discerning locals on a quiet, shaded square across the street (place des Alpes).

 

Crêperie Paris Breizh

www.creperieparisbreizh.fr/restaurant/paris-xiii/

The street barriers protect a school, so you dine on a terrace with no passage of cars.

For both, recent greening makes dining even pleasanter.

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

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a largely undiscovered city.

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What happened? The war did