tarquin

What a good trip report, fascinating and insightful, with a marvelous title. I saw this picture in Genoa in 2012, an unexpected treat and more memorable because of that.

MaineGG

Ackislander - I'm enjoying your posts and looking forward to hearing more about what you're doing day to day. For the past few visits to Paris, we have stayed quite near your current location and like being a little removed from the busiest tourist areas.

Your mention of the 46 bus reminded me of a good day a few trips ago when we took it to its terminus at the Château de Vincennes. This route passes through neighborhoods we would probably never see otherwise, including the Place Daumesnil with its impressive lion fountain and the Porte Dorée. After visiting the château, we returned on the 56 bus which takes a different route via the Place de la Nation. We are doing more and more RATP sightseeing tours.

My husband and I have visited Paris off and on since the early 1960s. I very much appreciate contributors here like Kerouac whose reports lead us to explore new areas of this wonderful city. We will return in September and I already have a long list of neighborhoods and sites in and around Paris to visit.

flpab

Your neighborhood sounds fine. I like the 2nd and others like other areas. I am a tourist so want to be more in the center but am not opposed to exploring new areas. Was your apartment cheaper there in the 10th? Hope the weather is a bit cooler for you with no ac.

powhatangal

I, too, am enjoying your reports from Paris. I'll be there in August for a week and can't wait!
Good to hear you spend time in Richmond - my hometown.

Tibor08

What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

swandav2000

nukesafe -- I think that's a grand plan and a great idea. Challenge folks to get out of their comfort zone. That's one of the benefits of travel, eh?

But I don't like dismissing the folks who like to stay in the center as somehow . . . what? . . . less . . less wise, less cool, less experienced, less adventurous? It's one thing to think those things (how do we stop our minds . . .), but to express our imagined superiority is just crass.

Well, sorta like what I'm doing here, lol. I'm SOO superior that I don't judge folks. Ah well.

I simply don't like the judgmental "congratulations" on "graduating."

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flpab

I agree swandav, I am on vacation and want to be in the center or very close to what I came to see. I am a tourist if it is my first or tenth visit. We always switch it up a bit in Dublin and this stay we went back to the Christ Church area where we first stayed in 2000. I liked it but missed being over by Trinity and the parks. Every area has perks and it is what makes each of us happy.

RT2015

Ackislander, I love this! Thank you for bringing your posts to my attention, on my own post.

I cannot wait to get to Paris and stay near where you are - I am coming from the other side of the world to you: Australia - and pretend that I am Simone de Beauvoir ... who knows, perhaps I might find my Jean-Paul Sartre! ;-)