I am leaving tonight for Paris, and no, I have not planned anything. Hey, maybe I'll finish that trip report from last year that went wayward and abandoned.

Anyhoo, am traveling with iphone, is there a map of Paris wifi hotspots that anyone can direct me to?

Thanks!

Also, any new or old restaurants/wine bars of note would be appreciated--right bank only--3rd, 10th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th arr. only please. I find the Rive Gauche, well, gauche. LOLZ!

Thanks!!

The easiest way to get WiFi is to navigate to the nearest McDonalds. All free, all the time.

If you haven't experienced Montparnasse or the Latin Quarter, it ain't the bank that's gauche.

The McDonalds is not an option, just looking for a hotspot map, not making a trip to a place I wouldn't go for it...

Yes, I have experienced both, I do find the areas gauche, esp. the Latin Quarter. To each their own.

Anyone?

Yeah, the Champs Élysées and Louvre-Rivoli are soooo sophisticated. None for me, thanks.

The only &quot;open&quot; hotspots I know of are on the left bank. <i>Tant pis!</i>

http://www.wififreespot.com/europe.html

http://www.paris.fr/portail/Economie...rtlet_id=18027

thanks shellio!

robesp.: please note I did not include the 1st or 8th as areas of note. Also, sense of humor please.

Wine Bars in 11th-

Bistrot Melac
42, rue Leon-Frot
Metro: Charonne
Tel: 1 40 09 93 37
Call before you go, as the hours can be erratic

La Muse Vin
101, rue de Charonne
Metro: Charonne
Tel: 1 40 09 93 05

<i>Also, sense of humor please.</i>

Okay, you start - by not bad-mouthing other peoples' favorite precincts. It makes you look like a snob - who wants free WiFi. A cheapskate snob.

It was a play on words.

I'm sure you are a fun person off the interwebs, but please, give the chip on the keyboard a rest.

Thanks YK! I missed La Muse Vin last year!

And yes, I am a cheapskate--it allows me to spend money on travel, and clothes.

&quot;Right bank only&quot; is a play on words, too? What if I said I thought it was the wrong bank?

Then you would be entitled to your opinion on where you wanted to spend your time, I don't care -- your time and money, spend it in a way that makes you happy.

You seem to be fixated on your preferences, and feeling slighted that I don't share them, not sure why. I don't berate other posters who do things I don't care for or tell them they are wrong on *their* posts, not sure why do you feel compelled to

As I stated, I am looking for suggestions in specific areas. The biggest complaint is that posters are too vague with their questions, I'm not being vague and am weeding out what I don't need info on.

Now, please give it a rest.

Restaurant des Quatres Fr&egrave;res
127, Boulevard de Menilmontant,
11th Arrondissement,
Couscous to die for.

L'Ecluse is a pretty good wine bar in the 11th, one rue de la Roquette, just a bit NE of the Bastille square.

I don't understand what you mean about the entire Left Bank being &quot;gauche&quot;, or how that can even apply to an area of geography, unless you mean it is too left-wing politically for you. And yet you want to hang out in the 10-12th, 18th-20th? huh? gauche means left-wing or for a person, clumsy or awkward.

also means crude.

Am I the only one that got the joke? I thought it was funny, Cherry.

The Paris.fr site gives all the public areas where you can surf for free on the City of Paris' dime. We took our mini-pc to the nearest 'pocket park' this month, and voila! the Internet.

I love people who prefer the Right Bank, as the Left is crowded enough already.

jesus--finally!

<i>You seem to be fixated on your preferences, and feeling slighted that I don't share them, not sure why. I don't berate other posters who do things I don't care for...</i>

Of course you do. Saying that you find the Left Bank gauche certainly qualifies. It denigrates the taste of a great many people. I didn't find your reference the least bit clever, LOLZ notwithstanding. If you had left out your take on the Rive Gauche, I would have found nothing offensive about your post at all.

Then I suggested that you might use the free bandwidth offered by McDonald's, and you dismissed my offering with &quot;not making a trip to a place I wouldn't go for it...&quot; - in spite of the fact that the restaurants are ubiquitous all over Paris. But if you'd rather march another km or two just to find a Mairie de Paris site, knock yourself out.

You're 0 for 2 in my book.

By the way, I wouldn't consider an iPhone. I can do more for far less money without buying into the Apple mystique.

get over yourself.

I own an iphone as my husband had to get one for work (testing web apps,) it was cheaper to move to the iphone than keep my treo, yes I am a cheapskate. I own no other mac products.

you are batting a high average for having no life in my book at this point.