A more delicious view on Paris

Well, this should be my last record about Paris, I think. To spice it up and make you reading it once more I added some of the pics I took - because I finally found time to edit them on PaintShopPro...

First of all, I think the Tuileries Gardens are commonly underestimated. Yes I know, you've heard about them already in school, enough about that. But that's not true. For me as an asthmatic the dusty, smelly air and the traffic pollution was maybe the worst in Paris from a to z. So the Tuileries was the best place to be, the only place for recreation and the only place where the air was really fresh and filtered in the 1st arrondissement. Well, we didn't try out the banks of the Seine, even though there ought to be some kind of beach party like it is popular in Hamburg and London already for a couple of summers.

And, even though you can nurse a baby for a day in the rest of Europe with the price of just one beer we tried out several restaurants, brasseries and bistros. The brasserie "Le Royal" directly opposite the Louvre on the Place Malreaux fulfilled all prejudices in the twinkling of an eye: the breakfast was ok, the assortement of cheese gorgeous, the clientele a mix of tourists and strange business people, the waiters - unfriendly, what else? - and it was not very clean compared to the price niveau. Very much more nice was a cafe close to the Place de la Madelaine on the backside of the Rue de l'Arcade: working people from the shops left and right, only a few tourists, lots of expensive clothes to admire - that was state of the art.

One of the excellent restaurants I can highly recommend was the Au pied de Chameau. Hey, all the colonializm and imperializm has to have at least one good side - that you can at least have one kitchen even better than a french one in Paris.

And for the great final: Opposite the "Le Royal" still at the Place Malreaux there is the "Cafe Ruc" - double the expensive, but much neater. And here I say bye, bye to my Napoleon:

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