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Paris

BistroY…Les Papilles – Paris, France

22 July 2011 France
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For any visitor to Paris it doesn’t take long to figure out the average bistro in this town likes to pack in its clientelle. Very little personal space or elbow room and hearing somebody elses conversation is part and parcel of the experience. Some like it, some don’t, so when it came to eating at this little hot-spot just a [...]

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The tale of two bistros – Paris, France

13 June 2011 France
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The humble Parisian bistro is a place that is without doubt embraced and enjoyed by loyal residents that drop in for a weekly feed or a pair of tourists that have blown in yearning a genuine foodie experience that’s off the well-trodden path. While there are many types of bistros around this town ranging from the new [...]

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Marché Bastille – Paris, France

30 May 2011 France
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Most of us know the feeling of waking up in a bed that is not our own; you open your bleary eyes, look up at the ceiling and for a brief moment have no idea where you are. Someones couch? A friends place? Or a hotel room on another continent? Case in point one morning before I jumped [...]

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Just another day in Paris, France

29 April 2011 Coffee
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The last time we stayed in Paris was in a top-floor apartment on boulevard St-Germain overlooking the rooftops and the grandiose Notre Dame, a beautiful area saturated with chocolatiers, bakeries and bistro’s in its web of narrow cobbled alleys. This time it was on the other side of the Seine in the thick of the Marais/Pletzl district, an area [...]

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Le Gai Moulin – Paris, France

15 April 2011 France
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Arriving in Paris should have been fairly straight forward. The train pulled into Gare du Nord on schedule and by the time we got the Metro down to Marais it was verging on dusk and a heavy-looking sky turned into light rain. The apartment we booked many months prior was very much in the heart of [...]

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Le Marché de Enfants Rouges – Paris, France

16 March 2011 France
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Zipping through the beautiful countryside at about 300km/hr from our last port-of-call, Béziers, the train headed up to Paris where we’d spend the last days of our trip living like locals in a Marais apartment. What’s a French holiday without a visit to Paris? This was my third visit to Frances capital and it was also [...]

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Is all coffee in Paris crap?

26 September 2010 Cookies

I need some help, big time. I’m sitting here in our rented Paris apartment rubbing my belly after a delicious lunch yet I’m craving a coffee made by someone who knows how to use an espresso machine. Paris, you’re a wonderful city and I always love visiting but you need to learn a thing or [...]

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