Paris, FR (besoin d'un sous-forum de voyage)

[spike]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

[spike]

Why is half of RM going to Paris all of the sudden? The Olympics?

be like spike

[doug rr]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

[spike]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

In Paris? Weird.

[doug rr]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

In Paris? Weird.

yeah, Paris..sorry...also noticed a lot more American fast food places too..

[spike]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

In Paris? Weird.

yeah, Paris..sorry...also noticed a lot more American fast food places too..

Was it in that Westfield Mall that’s mostly underground (connected to the Les Halles train station)? Saw signage for one opening there.

[doug rr]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

In Paris? Weird.

yeah, Paris..sorry...also noticed a lot more American fast food places too..

Was it in that Westfield Mall that’s mostly underground (connected to the Les Halles train station)? Saw signage for one opening there.

yep

[wease]

Why is half of RM going to Paris all of the sudden? The Olympics?

We’ll be there about a month beforehand

[spike]

we're staying in an airbnb - 3rd arrondissement. taking public transportation and walking.

Can't imagine going their with a little, but imagine a stroller and a shit ton of patience go a long way.

The Marais is great..thats where we were last month..a lot busier than it used to be..look out for the dumb bicyclists.

Yeah that’s a great walking area. We strolled over to some weird museum that had all sorts of stuffed beasts and old hunting guns. Thought the kid would enjoy the former, which she did.

one day while there we were just walking around and noticed a shit ton of people and news people mulling around..it was the grand opening of the first Krispy Kreme in London

In Paris? Weird.

yeah, Paris..sorry...also noticed a lot more American fast food places too..

Was it in that Westfield Mall that’s mostly underground (connected to the Les Halles train station)? Saw signage for one opening there.

yep

Haha we went there a bunch during our stay, was a five minute walk. The Monoprix came in handy for essentials, and I bought a set of hex wrenches across the street to tighten up the wobbly af kitchen table in our unit.

You were right next to the place that specializes in all things pork that I think I recommended a few pages back.

[dad]

Of course. Now share with me your hit list of restaurants.

off the top of my head..

Benoit--Alain Ducasse place
chez George..an old favorite..best sole
Le Chateaubriand..
Paul Bert
and a couple others I can't remember right now..mostly just be stopping whenever and eating after we hit those

a friend of ours recommended Paul Bert, and I thought I'd seen/heard it elsewhere

[doug rr]

Of course. Now share with me your hit list of restaurants.

off the top of my head..

Benoit--Alain Ducasse place
chez George..an old favorite..best sole
Le Chateaubriand..
Paul Bert
and a couple others I can't remember right now..mostly just be stopping whenever and eating after we hit those

a friend of ours recommended Paul Bert, and I thought I'd seen/heard it elsewhere

old school Paris and has never disappointed..

[Bammer]

I have a timeshare in what looks to be the “Montreuil” neighborhood. A couple blocks north of what looks to be a huge park that contains the Paris Zoo.

Is this a good part of town?

The south edge of the park is on the Marne River right about where it joins the Seine.

If you look at a map of Paris there is a loop surrounding the city. This is outside the loop a little to the East.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

I have a timeshare in what looks to be the “Montreuil” neighborhood. A couple blocks north of what looks to be a huge park that contains the Paris Zoo.

Is this a good part of town?

The south edge of the park is on the Marne River right about where it joins the Seine.

If you look at a map of Paris there is a loop surrounding the city. This is outside the loop a little to the East.

What little I’ve seen outside the loop and towards the edge of the loop (driving to/from CDG, trains to Versailles and Euro Disney) was not inspiring.

[wease]

Damn, lots of RMers doing Europe this year. Doug’s been. Was spike’s trip early this year or late last? Dad’s getting ready for his trip in a few weeks. You in May. bammer at some point. Anyone else going?

[doug rr]

I have a timeshare in what looks to be the “Montreuil” neighborhood. A couple blocks north of what looks to be a huge park that contains the Paris Zoo.

Is this a good part of town?

The south edge of the park is on the Marne River right about where it joins the Seine.

If you look at a map of Paris there is a loop surrounding the city. This is outside the loop a little to the East.

[dad]

I’ll be in a Paris in less than a week.

[dad]

Been in Paris for a few hours and already dying from embarrassment. We asked a waiter at a wine bar we stopped at for some recs, and according to our airbnb host, they’re not that great. Then we half-jokingly mentioned to our host that we would want French onion soup, she said, “nobody eats that.”

I can’t stop laughing.

[Alex]

vous êtes gay?

[dad]

oui, tellement gay