IF YOU VISIT PARIS, CONSIDER PITCHING YOUR TENT
IN THIS FORMER OUTSKIRT
Three bus and three métro lines intersect at City Hall.
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As a guide I know many hotels, because I meet visitors there. My first choice is an establishment that has been family-run for 30 years because of its...
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- Intimacy.
- Rooms that give out onto its private garden.
- Fair price.
- Excellent Basque restaurant
Magazines about the vicinity
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Imagining the combat that raged over the original islands is almost impossible.
A young man who explains the details of recycling for City Hall
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To discover the neighborhood take the walk just described, which highlights...
- Third World rebels' start as revolutionaries.
- An urban transformation greater than any other in Paris.
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 place, two inexpensive restaurants for discerning locals (on place des Alpes, across the street)
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 14€. Here they are not only better, but cost 8-14 € and are organic.
- Or Italian home cooking. The pizza crust is exceptionally light.
Restaurant Verdi
The street barriers protect a school, so you dine on a terrace with no passage of cars.
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Facing that terrace...
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| The school the barriers protect |
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The École des Arts et Métiers, avenue Stephen-Pichon |
A former factory
Knowing the neighborhood's past
gives it a dimension other than what appears,
and reminds us of hows lucky we are
to live in our time.
End of this short section.
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