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2 Blvd du General De Gaulle, Kremlin Bicetre, Ile-de-France, 94270, France
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A sculpture in memory of a painter
Hôtel de Ville in B&W, Oct 2009
Musée d'Orsay from the Batobus
The Moulin not Rouge - a real old windmill
Air France allows you to layover in Paris for free. Is it practical to stay near the CDG airport for 2 days and return to the airport to continue our trip to Athens? We would arrive from the US at about 6 AM and would like to go directly to a nearby hotel to sleep then sightsee for the afternoon and next day continuing on the day after. I've never stayed near the airport and find CDG to be a terrible airport to navigate around but would love to see more of Paris or areas outside the city.
Imho, it would be better just to delay the sleep for a bit and go into the centre of Paris, having booked a hotel there for 2 nights. Then you can collapse and rest, and then be fresh for sightseeing later on in the day. You would then be in the centre and wouldn't have to do anything the next day apart from sightseeing (i.e. no commuting into Paris from CDG). All you have to do the final day is to get yourselves to CDG at an appropriate time.
I agree.
Although the idea of checking into an airport hotel (not cheap) immediately may be appealing, it would be better to base yourselves in a hotel in central Paris to avoid the time, cost and hassle of commuting in and out. Choose a hotel with easy acces from/to your chosen form of transport from CDG.
Look at www.booking.com for hotels; it's a reliable site used by many VT-ers with honest guest reviews and good mapping.
There is defintely nothing to see around CDG. So as already suggsted to you, you'd better get yourself a hotel in Paris and make sure they can give you the room early in the morning.
You could pick up a place for a hotel next to a station of the RER line that takes you from Paris to CDG: Les Halles, St Michel, Observatoire or Denfert.
St Michel would be probably the best because you're close to many places and restaurants etc.
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I agree - RER Line B from CDG to central Paris is about 45 minutes. Pick a hotel near St Michel or Luxumberg stations and you can hop straight on when you go-back to CDG.
Great area to stay in - we always chose there for this reason.
There is nothing around the airport worth seeing IMO.
Sometimes it is hard to find a hotel that will give you your room for that day at such an early time. Most will allow you to leave your luggage and go off to enjoy the sights and return later.
Find a hotel near the sights and leave your stuff.
Agree with Painter Dave - as it may be tough to find a hotel that will let you check in before noon. Book one in the center of Paris, have them hold your luggage, tidy up bit in their public restroom, and take off for some sightseeing. I wouldn't waste what little time you have sleeping - have a big cup of coffee somewhere to wake you up! Not that I would push Starbucks (especially in Paris) but it's decent java AND you can get a cup "to go" (which can be a rarity there) - enjoy it as you're walking about. We bought our morning cups there for that reason - we could drink it on the move! :)
Yes get into the centre of town... see if you can get an early check in ... or leave your luggage and wander until you need to sit at a cafe and have a coffee and a pastry or lunch.. once you are walking time will fly... don't waste time sleeping!! get the Roissy bus at the opera to return you to the airport you can also catch it from cdg at door 9...
During the lunch hour, in Paris, I noticed that it was common for the delis to run a special. For around 7 euros, you can get a sandwich, drink (typically soda), and dessert. It was fantastic, and well within my budget as a broke college student. The sandwiches were filling enough that the dessert was usually saved for a snack later in the day.
This is also true for dinner. In certain restaurants (in the highly touristy areas), you can get a 3 course meal for about 12-15 euros.
see the Eiffel tower. One of my fondest memories is when we walked around the corner to the park, and there it was. This is a place that I thought I would never see. It was absolutely gorgeous. Everything...I loved everything about Paris. The sightseeing, the people, the history.....
the French government recently introduced legislation designed to prevent any bakery from calling itself a "boulangerie" if it does not make, knead and cook entirely from scratch on the premises.
Contrast this to the signs "baked on premises" you see in Manhattan, which only mean the industrial frozen dough has
been delivered to the premises, and they put it into the microwave to finish "baking" it here.
However, French health authorities recently asked the bakers to reduce the salt content in their products by 20per cent over the next five years.Despite the revival of rustic recipes for darker breads and the multitude of newly invented varieties, the basic baguette still represents seventy percent of French bakery sales - or ten billion baguettes consumed every year.
As for a precise description of the ingredients, you have to ask the baker most of the time what each bread with a fancy name in reality contains.
Only three categories of French breads are defined by law : those that carry the mentions maison, tradition and levain.
A baker may only call his bread "maison" when the entire operation, from the kneading to the baking to the sales, takes place in one and same location.
To earn the label "tradition", the bread may not be frozen at any point during the baking process and it must not contain any ingredients beyond the basic ones : wheat flour, water, salt and yeast (or leaven).
"Pain au levain" must be made from wheat and/or rye flour, water and salt and the dough should be put to ferment in order to obtain a more or less acid taste. Different Pains de Campagnes in Different Regions Outside of these three well-defined categories, you're on your own in the djungle of fancy breads sold under more or less imaginative names.
A recent investigation by the French consumer magazine 60 Millions de Consommateurs found huge discrepancies not only in weight and price per kilo of sampled breads but also widely different ingredients and baking procedures in the case of some common breads.
A pain de campagne, for instance, looks and tastes differently in Bretagne, say, from one baked in Montpelllier.
The taste depends on how it was made traditionally in a specific region and on what pleases the local tastebuds.
A pain complet should in principle be baked with whole-wheat, and a pain au son should contain whole-wheat plus bran - but no stipulations exist concerning the proportions.
The same goes for pain de seigle and - just to make things even more confusing - for pain au seigle (best translated as "rye bread" and "bread with rye").
Neither of them is baked with rye flour alone. The first is usually expected to consist of no more than 35 percent of wheat, the second should contain a minimum of 10 percent rye flour. Again, no laws regulate these appelations.
And when a pain labeled "multicereales" is on display, the only thing to do is ask the baker what percentage and kind of cereals it contains.
Tough Competition Between Independent and Industrial Bakeries
The boulangerie scene is further complicated by the fact that in order to survive in competition with supermarkets and industrial bakeries, half of France's approximately 34000 independent boulangers now work in partnership with other bakers or with millers organizations.
Sometimes, their products are simply named after the group of bakers or millers they represent. A Banette, for example is a tasty, short and thick "baguette" sold in bakeries of the Banette group of millers.
I think that like most of us in the English speaking countries, most French people assume that if you come to their country, you must know their language. If you do not know their language, or do not know it well, the best thing to do is probably to say so right off the bat.
Pardon. monsieur/madame, parlez-vous anglais?
"Pardong, msyer/madahm, parlay-voo anglay?
Excuse me, sir/ma'am, do you speak English?
Pardon/Bonjour, y-a-t'il quelqu'un ici qui parle anglais?
"Pardong/bonzhoor, yateel kelkunn eesee kee parl anglay?
Excuse me/Good morning, is there anyone here who speaks English?
French politeness is legendary, what with the frequent use of "monsieur," "madame," etc. My sense is that this politesse is the French way of maintaining reserve.
I've always viewed the column sculpture in the Palais Royal courtyard as an art object and have tried to take pictures without people in them -- to express its artistic nature -- was I wrong! Last time through there were skateboarders, wanderers and sitters. And it looked right!
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