ET Paris Meet-up, September 2010 - Two | 37 comments (37 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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It does look a bit upmarket on google earth, but it's the 16th, waddaya expect ?

I think I've decided to come over on Thursday and have an aggressive itinerary in the morning to get to some of the friday ones on the list that Melanchthon provided.

Also, I've found some beer shops, as opposed to bars, this time, so I'm gonna hit some of those.

Plus maybe we can get an ET picnic together for either Friday afternoon or sunday lunch. So it'd be good to go scout out a place for that, unless someone who lives there wants to do it for us.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 22nd, 2010 at 01:30:48 PM EST
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Last year on Sunday we were at the big market north of the Bastille in the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. The only problem was finding a place we were allowed to picnic.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jun 22nd, 2010 at 04:30:07 PM EST
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I think what we could think about is determining where we have the picnic and then collecting food on the way. tbh there aren't many open spaces in large cities anywhere.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 22nd, 2010 at 05:01:31 PM EST
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Other proposals in the "green" department:

One very nice park is the "Parc des Buttes-Chaumont", in the North-East of Paris (photo gallery), not far from "Le Père Lachaise".

As for the picnic regulations in the city parks & gardens, they're mentioned here (PDF in French):
"Les pique-niques individuels et familiaux sont autorisés, à condition que la propreté des lieux soit respectée. Les feux et barbecues sont interdits." (so picnics are OK, but leave that Weber grill at home).

However: "L'introduction et la consommation de boissons alcoolisées sont interdites," (so wine & beers & Caol-Ila are off-limits, except at the restaurants).

Closer from the 16th (actually just across the Seine from Geezer's place): the "Jardin des Plantes".

Further away from town, the gigantic park of the "Chateau de Versailles": it's a 24 minutes train ride from the Javel station, across the Seine from Le Cantalou; round trip ticket is EUR 5.90

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Jun 26th, 2010 at 12:25:16 PM EST
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Is booze permitted any where ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jun 26th, 2010 at 02:26:08 PM EST
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In restaurants and cafes obviously.
Out in the streets, its tolerated (short of drunkenness) and the parks regulation ban it, based on the document.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Jun 26th, 2010 at 05:21:55 PM EST
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A classic place were booze is traditional is along the Canal Saint Martin.

Although, in most public parks booze is nominally banned but lots of groups of friends have a bottle of wine or a few beers along with their picnic. The one park where banning is actually enforced is the Champs de Mars.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Jun 27th, 2010 at 10:18:46 AM EST
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Of course I have been away from SarkoFrance for a year and such things may have changed.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Jun 27th, 2010 at 10:19:37 AM EST
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