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

[bart]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed in France......

Canada, Australia and the UK are all out ..

who tf is Australia kidding

[Peeps]

may i suggest asking for French Fries and French Toast

[dad]

coucou, c'est sérieux.

[doug rr]

not that it was horrible but the only time I went to Versailles it was a crazy heat wave and shoulder to shoulder crowds inside..couldnt wait to get in a cab and go back to the city

[wease]

I will be traveling to Paris for six days next year...actually, five because we're doing a side quest to Brussels. I know we might go to Versailles one day.

I know RMer spike is there now, soon doug rr will be going as well, and surely there are others here who've been.

Looking for restaurant recs, day trips, things to avoid, and things that are must-see.

How far in advance should I be making restaurant reservations?

We’re going next year as well

[wease]

isn't dad a vegetarian?

yes, and i will still try to seek out veg/vegan options while on the trip. i will also partake in snails and meat-eating as it's a vacation. as much as the lifestyle change has served me well, i don't want to say i went to Europe and didn't at least try the cuisine.

also, i still eat seafood on occasion.

Confirmed

[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.

[wease]

It's on our radar too. Either that or Disney World.

Euro Disney. Two birds, one stone.

I think I’ve actually gotten out of going there.

[96583UP]

wonderful

such a beautiful place

if you know to avoid where the riff raff

by eiffel tower: la girafe
vendome: Hemingway Bar, Ritz Carlton
left bank: le petit lutetia

[Higgs]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed in France......

Canada, Australia and the UK are all out ..

who tf is Australia kidding

Yeah, wtf? This makes me sad.

[spike]

Last day in Paris, Bammer will be pleased to know.

Coldest day by far, so I think we timed our visit quite well. Still fit in a nice walk.

[doug rr]

We're on our way in a few hours..did you wash the sheets?

[spike]

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

[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

[doug rr]

will also be sending back a few hundred euros worth of tinned sardines and whatnot back home as well

[Ello Sailor]

Sending back sardines back. Got it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

will also be sending back a few hundred euros worth of tinned sardines and whatnot back home as well

I did this in Spain last year.

[dad]

Sending back sardines back. Got it.

[bart]

Paul Bert

le flic du mall

[doug rr]

made it to the airbnb at about 630 this morning...we slept until 1pm..getting ready to hit the streets soon and eat..the apartment is great but its a 4th floor walkup..ugh