Mar 26th, 2006
The Best Baguette in Paris 2004—2006
According to a post at this site 2004’s winner can be found at La fournée d’Augustine, 96 rue Raymond Losserand, 14th arrondissement.
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The 2005 winner, Eric Sana, 3 rue du retrait, 20th arrondissement.
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And the 2006 winner, Jean-Pierre Cohier, can be found here.
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Mar 24th, 2006
Carnet de Voyage
I have another book to recommend, Carnet De Voyage by Craig Thompson.
Now this one is sort of cheating as most of it takes place in Morocco, but some of it is set in Paris. This book is not so much a story as a beautifully illustrated travel journal. The pictures are mostly done in brush pen with no preliminary drawing, which irritates me to no end. This is the way I wish I could draw. Sigh.
Any way, pick it up, you won’t be sorry.
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Mar 23rd, 2006
Apartment Rentals in Paris
This site looks like it has some decent deals.
No internet in the apartments though. It would be ideal to find a place that had a computer and internet. Some of the places through Kudeta seem to have for a little extra cash.
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Mar 21st, 2006
Eurocheapo
This looks like a pretty good resource for cheap hotels in Europe.
I know there are tones of these sites around, but most seem to be light on information and heavy on promotion.
This one looks like it’s got a lot of information and opinions and not just about hotels. They’ve got some nice city guides as well.
I’ll add it to the resource sidebar.
Hotels for Amsterdam that look good:
Hotel Abba
Hotel Bema
Hotel de la Haye
Hotel de Lanterne
Hotel de Westertoren
Hotel Groenendael
Hotel La Bohème
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Mar 20th, 2006
La Cinèmathéque Française
Located at 51 rue de Bercy The Cinèmathéque Française is housed in the former home of the American Center. A building designed by Frank Gehry.
Here is a page with a little information about it.
When we were in Prague last year, I very much wanted to go see the Gehry building known as Fred and Ginger but completely spaced it until near the end of the last day of our visit, by which time it was too late. I hope I will not make the same mistake this time.
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