Cadbury needs your advice about Paris please. . .

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Cadbury and Mr Cadbury (Spamhead - that's his mumsnet moiniker, not just a personal comment ) are going to Paris for a few days.

Its an organised coach trip so we will get driven round the major sights but I doubt we'll have much opportunity to walk around them.

However, we have a couple of evenings and an afternoon or 2 to do with as we please. I would like your recommendations of where to go to catch some of the real spirit of Paris?

Where do you recommend?

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there'll be plenty of time for that my dear. although we don't want to tempt fate and come home pg now do we.

Fio, can you log on to msn for a mo please?

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Some one who lives in Paris will now aeive and tell you it is a tourist trap, but we enjoyed it!

Have a wander round the Marais - very pretty and lots of lovely restaurants (just make sure it's not Yom Kippur though! DH and I went one weekend and everything was shut).

The Musee Rodin (especially the gardens) is lovely and low key - I can't do museums that take hours.

Google food markets Paris and you will come up with wonderful places where you can wander for ages.

You've got to go to Chartier for lunch - 7 Rue Fbg Montmartre - it's a classic old style French brassierie. You're going there for the atmosphere rather than amazing food but if you want the spirit of Paris it's spot on.

Just walk, walk, walk...there is no better way of capturing the atmosphere of Paris than walking around.

Thankyou for your suggestions. MB - it looks lovely - might be a bit outside of our price range but I can dream

Anyone else got any favourite places?

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try and get an ice cream here

and walk round the streets, and when the ice cream is done pop into Notre Dame (if still open)

walk down the banks of the Seine and see the lights reflected in the water.

Mootch about on the left bank, have a glass of wine outside a cafe and watch the world go by!

Sigh, great place

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I loved the Pompidou Centre...it's really an art gallery but not in a stuffy boring way. Was really fun to walk round (say a couple of hours), also you must go to "Galeries Lafayette" It's a giant shop like a French Harrods or similar and wander round the food section smelling cheeses etc for half an hour! And that would be free!

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If you don't have the time to go in the Louvre, then at least wander round the fountains and the glass pyramid in the central courtyard

This is Pompidou

Try Chartier for supper, if budgeting. Historic, very Parisien, cheap, and still authentic, I think. Faubourg Montmartre. Bon appetit!

You can't book at Chartier, I think, just turn up.

I've been to Chartier several times, very authentic, yes you just queue up, real food very good. Wood panelling, chandeliers, but old-y as opposed to posh-y!

Zackly.

I love Chartier too.

Not pricey or fussy but lovely

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Oooh yum don't you die for the plainness of that menu? I had pineapple for pud there once and it was just a delicious sliced pinepapple on a plate. No crap.

And yum cheese and endless baskets of bread for mopping up your sauce au poivre in truly vile style!

Am starving.

Really recommend this place for dinner. - lovely food and lovely art nouveau decor

Also just walking round the ile st louis - sooo pretty.

if you're going during the first weekend of the month you can get into the museums for free!

Are you sure you want to go with spamhead and not marslady?