Café Le Refuge, Lamarck-Caulaincourt, Montmartre district, Paris, 2015
Tag Archives: Metro
Barbès – Rochechouart, Paris
A young man checks out the Paris métro map at the Barbès-Rochechouart station, July 2015
metro at Lamarck-Caulaincourt, Paris
The metro station is on the back side of Montmartre, and a scenic starting point to explore the area. Across the street from the metro is Le Refuge, an atmospheric cafe where time seemed to stand still.
Paris places
Paris sky, evening
My internet access has been limited lately. Apart from not yet having wifi in my apartment, I lost my Nokia cell phone during the taxi ride back to my apartmentfrom Suzhou train station my first evening back from France. An unplanned new expense will be an iPhone in the next week.
Aside from that, I’m finishing up my dissertation for the M.A. in Teaching English for Academic Purposes, my title being Teaching English for Art History in a Chinese Context. The due date is September 1.
I will continue over the next couple of weeks to share photos from my trip to France. Below are some of my favorite places during my 8 days in Paris.
Restaurant Chartier, the “good value” restaurant I fondly remembered from my student days. I ate my first dinner there after my arrival in Paris.
The Paris Metro – a world unto itself. If you’re in the right mood, the mazes of corridors and “correspondances” can be fun in a dizzying sort of way.
I spent a lot of time in the Metro, thanks to my 3-day Paris Visite pass.
The covered passages or shopping arcades of Paris date mostly from the early 19th century. My favorites were the consecutive Passage Verdeau, Passage Jouffroy, and Passage des Panoramas, centered around the Grands Boulevards.
The Blé Sucré bakery on Square Trousseau came highly recommended by David Lebovitz. He didn’t steer me wrong. The brown-sugary, buttery, delectble kouign amann above was my favorite pastry treat.
One of my two (or three, or four) favorite restaurant meals in Paris was at Restaurant Astier. Pictured is the calve’s liver; I won’t even try to describe the huge terrine of marinated herring for an appetizer, or the all-you-can-eat cheese tray brought to your table after the main course. Yes, all this was followed by dessert.
Le Faubourg, near my hotel and on the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, became a favorite place for breakfast, not only for the good coffee and fresh, flaky croissants, but for the most friendly and cheerful waiter I’ve ever met.
Finally, the rather bewildering but wonderful Musee d’Orsay was filled with too much art to view on one visit.
Metro ride
On the new Chengdu Metro Line 2, Chunxi Road station, during the National Day holiday