Buddar Bar in Paris is %26quot;dead%26quot; whats the %26quot;new place to be%26quot;?
Looking for an upscale place to eat and later maybe try some new moves on the dancefloor.
Any recommandations in Paris?
Try the Man Ray in the 8th arr a block from the C-E, it%26#39;s a hot spot with good restaurant!!!
www.manray.fr
I typed in the above and pulled up what was alot in passing about %26quot;Euro change%26quot;. I am just wondering how a Euro breaks down? Something about a brass ring and how similar to a quarter it was. So is it cents, quarter of, half of, and so on? Confused.
Two-euro coin, one-euro coin, fifty cents, twenty cents, ten cents, five cents, two cents, one cent...
Try this for probably more than you need to know about Euro banknotes and coinage--
…eu.int/comm/…our_currency_en.htm
If you%26#39;ve any interest in %26#39;..proop sets..%26#39;collectors coinage/medallions--
http://www.monnaiedeparis.com/index.htm
raphy, are they called cents? Not eurocents or something more french? Moon
They are called %26#39;%26#39;..cents..%26#39; and often still refered to as %26#39;..centimes..%26#39; in France.
Our cruise stops in Monaco for one day (Monday, June 20). I have a rental car reserved for the day. I have heard horror stories of being stuck in traffic for several hours. I want to avoid this at all costs. I would like to take a nice drive and perhaps see Old Nice and Eze. Is there a way of accomplishing this while minimizing the chances of being stuck in horrific traffic jams? What route would that be? Any other suggestions would be welcome. Our interests include medieveal towns, farmers markets, beautiful views. I have seen many posts about taking trains, however, I like the idea of driving, if at all practical. Thanks!
hello,
Menton or Grasse (the Capital of Perfumes) are nice.....
Antibes or Juan les Pins if you want a trendy place.
You may have a little traffic jam in Nice, but depend on the time you come, but It will be monday, so I%26#39;ll be better than week end.
your problem will be driving in and out of monaco, which could take well over an hour each way. suggest a train to nice, a lovely city where you could easily spend a day, in the old town%26#39;s street markets, beachfront, and lovely colors and quaint winding streets. the hilltop towns are wonderful. but not sure that%26#39;s what i do if i had only one day there.
What would you do if you had just one day there?
Only one day? Do not drive in Monaco, you can walk some of it. Get out of Monaco by the Grande Corniche so you can stop by Eze or La Turbie on your way to Nice. But Nice may be a problem because of road works for the tramway. If you still want to drive limit your visit to the Old Town in Nice, the promenade Des Anglais, come back to Manoco by the Basse Corniche (drive from the promeande des Anglais through the old Port then Villefranche and then head to Monaco).
If you don%26#39;t want hassle take the train. Period. no problems, cheap, effeicient and always on time.
Get yourself some map and go on nice%26#39;s website to get morre info.
I know very little about cheese but Paris is a city that produces excellent cheese (or so i%26#39;ve heard).
What cheese do you recommend for a newbie - especially in sandwiches? I don;t particularly like moulded cheese but i%26#39;ve tried Camembert, brie, parmesan, mozerella here down under (i don%26#39;t think it would be as good as in paris though).
Well Paris doen not produce cheese, but it is a city where you can find a lot of cheeses in supermarkets. By the way, parmesan and mozarella are italian cheeses, not french, although you can find them in supermarkets.
I%26#39;m not sure which city is the world cheese capital, but when I visited Switzerland, I was amazed by the mind-boggling large selection of cheese available. I%26#39;m not sure about the statistics, but it appears to me that I could try to eat 3 different types of cheese every day, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and after one year, I would still have not tasted one cheese twice. In Paris, I have eaten the simplest baguette sandwiches with just ham and swiss cheese (the one with holes), and I have found them absolutely delicious. I think it%26#39;s not the good cheese, but mainly the freshness of the baguette that makes all the difference. While in Paris, you may try some French herb cheese. There are hundreds of varieties, and I can%26#39;t recall all the names. Part of the fun of traveling, and thrills in life, is experimenting through trials and errors.
In sandwiches, especially with jambon (ham), emmental or gruyere.
I love Compte (the e is an accent-e but TA doesn%26#39;t allow accents - pronounced comb-tay) with a fresh baguette and a nice 4EUR Cote du Rhone for a really cheap picnic lunch.
I heard from a Parisian friend that there are 366 different cheeses in France, one for every day of the year and one more to start the next... or something like that...
De Gaulle used to say it was hard to govern a country where you had as many types of cheese as days in the year!
%26quot;How can you govern a country where there are 246 different cheeses?%26quot; ��� Charles de Gaulle
Thank you for correcting, i didn%26#39;t remember exactly the quote. They have found out since that time that there are actually many more types of cheese in France, even more than the days of the year!!
I was pretty sure there were more than 246 also, but apparently General de Gaulle was not very well informed!
I think if you took into account every fromager artisanal making his/her own special cheeses, especially goats%26#39; milk cheeses, there must surely be many more even than 400!
Our family is hoping to visit Provence. Unfortunately, with our children%26#39;s school calendar, we can only go in August. I%26#39;ve read that it can be very uncomfortable in August. Is it too hot to be enjoyable?
It does often get seriously hot in August in Provence. However, I have been there then, and have had a great time. One does tend to do as most of the locals do and retreat indoors - or at least into heavy shade - for a couple of hours in the hottest part of the day.
On the other hand the mornings and evenings are usually delightful
This site will give you some idea what the historical average high and low temps are in August.
www.weatherbase.com
Later this month I will be in Paris over the weekend (staying in the Latin quarter). I have always wanted to see the Normandy beaches. Does any one have any advice on how to get to the beaches from Paris, where to stay in the beach area - will not have a rental car, speak no French : (
Hey.
I have been having the same questions and they are very nicely answered in a few other threads here.
Try to do a search and you%26#39;ll find a bunch of information!
Good luck - I don%26#39;t think I%26#39;m going to be able to do it :-(
You might want to check ParisVision.
I had a most meaningful tour of the
Normandy Beaches several years back.
My family will be in Paris this summer. We%26#39;d like to rent a car and spend about 3-4 nights somwhere else in France. I%26#39;d like to spend all the nights in one place, leisurely travelling during the day and then coming back to the same place.
Which would be a better bet Provence or Burgundy? These are my 2 top choices at the moment. We would also consider Brittany.
Provence is too far for only 3-4 days unless you fly to Nice from paris. Why not the Loire valley with the castles?
I don%26#39;t agree that Provence is too far to travel for a visit of a few days. Avignon or Aix-en-Provence can be reached in under 3 hours by TGV. Either would make a good base to explore Provence . Avignon would actually enable you to do without a car, if you were interested more in visiting the interesting towns round Avignon than getting into the country. Arles, Nimes and Orange are all about a half hour by trin. Aix can be reached in about an hour by bus from Avignon.
Burgundy would also be easy. Dijon is only an hour by TGV from Paris. Beaune would perhaps make a better center for touring.
The Loire valley is also very much worth seeing, and again an hour by train will get you there.
In any of these cases I would take the train and pick up my rental car when I got to where I was going - Dijon, Avignon, Tours, wherever...
It%26#39;s really up to you which you would prefer. It depends a lot on your own interests. A good guidebook, such as the Eyewitness Guide to France, will help inform your decision.
I have spent time in all these regions, and like them all very much. The only reason I have said nothing about Brittany is that I do not know it as well - and it does have the wettest weather in France, even in summer.
Both are neat areas. I know Provence better and think there is alot to see there. A TGV to Aix or Avignon, then renting a car would be ideal. Aix is a wonderful little city with great markets on T, Th and Sat mornings. Villages in the area that I think are especially interesting: Les Baux, Gordes, Cucuron, St Remy, Roussillon, and Lourmarin-great market on Friday mornings. A little further away is Forqualquier with the largest and most interesting market I have ever seen on Monday mornings-interesting town as well. You would need a good map and really enjoy driving around the countryside. There are also either sunflowers or lavender blooming in the summer, and the area is covered with vineyards.
If you go to Burgundy you can rent a boat and spend the three-four days navigating the canals and exploring lovely villages at the same time. The cost is reasonable when you consider that you won%26#39;t be needing a hotel and the settiing idyllic.
The Hospice de Beaune is a medival hospital that is definiately worth the visit if you head this way.
As for Provence, I agree that it is too far to travel by car for a 3-4 night trip. The TGV is great, but you will still need to rent a car upon your arrival, and with the train tix this coud be prohib. expensive for some.
