A weekend in Paris - the coolest addresses
Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Champs Elysees, Montmartre, Disneyland - sure, all these sights are great and worth a city trip alone. But you've checked that off on your last trip, right?
Anyway, on this Paris weekend we do everything like the locals - go by metro, go to the movies on Saturday and to "Brönsch" on Sunday. Clear, shopping and feasting we will too! You will definitely remember this city trip for a long time.
Weekend in Paris: Friday
You can not get any closer to Paris than on a Friday night in the RER, the French S-Bahn. Everyone is on their way home from work, they are stuffing themselves into regional trains. Stop, take at Charles de Gaulle airport neither bus nor taxi - traffic jam is programmed - but the RER B. Let you bring directly to the center of Umsteig-madness, for Gare du Nord, Change to the blue metro line 2 direction Porte Dauphine and get off at Pigalle. Goal: that Hotel Amour, where you in front of a lot of guests in the hotel, very fine restaurant barely the front desk (8, Rue Navarin, Tel. 01 48 78 31 80, www.hotelamourparis.fr, double room from 190 euros including champagne and fruit). And without reservation also no place to eat gets. Unload luggage in the room and bon appétit.
Party tip for afterwards: let yourself be infected by the Parisian swing fever. At the moment everybody loves the electric sound of Bart & Baker (info and locations: www.bartandbaker.com).
Weekend in Paris: the Saturday
1, 2 - Have a snack in the "Bar du Marché": The terrace in front of the corner café helps to see and be seen3, 4 - Where did you get that? You can go shopping in the district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. There are many French labels that are difficult to find in Germany5 - shopping with tradition: the luxury department store Le Bon Marché and the Marché d'Aligre
Get out of bed: The weekend shopping for a picnic in the park is on. Let's go on the market. If you want to get something decent, you should show up at 12 o'clock at the latest. Your contact point: The Marché d'Aligre with over 200 years of tradition, a sea of stalls and a large market hall in the center (Place d'Aligre, Tue to Sat. about 8 o'clock to 13 o'clock, Sun. about 8 to 14 o'clock, Métro station: Ledru -Rollin, //marchedaligre.free.fr). Here you will find fresh fish, fruit and vegetables and everything on our shopping list: specialties such as foie gras, saucisse de morteau (smoked sausage) and Comté cheese, which will also delight the loved ones at home.
Sensory overload? Take a break: Im Le Baron Rouge just around the corner, many visitors to the market are left with wine, oysters and a good conversation (1, Rue Théophile Roussel, Tel. 01 43 43 14 32). The ambience: unpretentious. Wine barrels are stored on the walls and people crowd around the few tables. Definitely try: cheese, sausage, baguette and oysters.
For the stomach is taken care of, then comes the fashion of it: Continue to chic Rive Gauche, either by Vélib, a rental bike (stations are about every 300 meters, info at www.velib.paris.fr), or by bus Number 86 after Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Here you will find fashion and accessories from popular French labels that are difficult to find in Germany, such as Isabel Marant (1, Rue Jacob), Et Vous (69, Rue de Rennes), Maje (42, Rue du Four) or Chemins Blanc (57, Rue des Saints-Pères). Iris has the best selection of French shoes from Chloé to Rochas (28, Rue de Grenelle).
The luxury department store LE BON Marché is also architecturally interesting, Gustave Eiffel has helped with the planning (24, Rue de Sèvres).
Left: . , , and continue our shopping tour; Middle: The Latin Quarter is teeming with movie theaters. What they all have in common: the long queue at the box office; Destination reached: the box office of the Filmothèque Quartier Latin. The Art Deco cinema has a very good selection of films (right picture)
After shopping we rest on the terrace of the Bar du Marché from: Croque Monsieur eat, drink rosé, people watch and be watched - full-length and amusing. Then you have the choice: cinema or art? Anyone who has never been in decent cinema in Paris was not really in Paris. The program cinemas in the Latin Quarter bring old classics to the screen. The Filmothèque Latin Quarter, with plush seats and art deco lamps, has the best selection (9, rue Champollion, tel. 01 43 26 70 38, www.lafilmotheque.fr).
The alternative: admire modern art - not in the museum, but at vernissages, without queue and with free champagne. The galleries in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements often open exhibitions on Saturdays. Anyone who knows is invited.With a bit of luck, you'll get a vernissage in the Gallery of Emmanuel Perrotin (76, rue de Turenne, tel. 01 42 16 79 79, www.galerieperrotin.com), an art dealer traded as a young Charles Saatchi of Paris. The last station before Vélib brings you back home in style is a first-class scene address: the Chacha Club for hot nights. Downstairs noble dance floor, upstairs a flat with music and smoker room including piano and the coolest kids of the city (47, Rue Berger, from 20 o'clock, Tel. 01 40 13 12 12, www.chachaclub.fr). Only downside: the strict door. But that too is part of it.
Weekend in Paris: Sunday
Picnic with a view: Sunday afternoon in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont
In German: Sleep well for a long time. For what is there for the late breakfast, "le Brönsch"? The Parisians did not invent the brunch, but made it their favorite Sunday activity, which once again proves numerous queues. The oasis among the thousands of brunch addresses: LA Belleviloise in Belleville, north-east of Paris, a neighborhood in transition that is attracting more and more artists and creatives. In the daylight-bright and with olive trees decorated "Halle aux Oliviers" of the more than 100 years old cultural center place exhibitions and concerts take place and Sundays a Jazz brunch with live music and a huge buffet. Great, if you get a seat on the nice terrace (19-21, Rue Boyer, Tel. 01 46 36 07 07, www.labellevilloise.com, 28 Euro / person, make a reservation!).
Then it goes on in the most beautiful green area of the city, the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, For jogging to run your child or dog or picnicking on the lawn - this is where everything from the Jewish extended family to the young hippie meets (19th arrondissement, between Rue Botzaris, Rue Manin and Rue de Crimée, Metro Botzaris or Buttes Chaumont, //butteschaumont.free.fr). If you feel comfortable in this mix of multicultural audience, banlieue skyline and wild nature including artificial grotto, waterfall, hills and lake, you will arrive in true Paris. And nothing feels farther away than the plane that waits for you in the evening at the airport.
Information for your city trip to Paris
phone Area code to France 00 33, then omit the first zero.
Getting there In just under 3.5 hours, it goes with the high-speed train "Thalys" from Cologne to Paris; with the "TGV" from Stuttgart it's even faster. Direct flights from many German cities, eg. B. Easyjet, Eurowings, Air France or Lufthansa.
map In the "Paris Pratique par Arrondissement" from the series "L'Indispensable" even Vélib stations, one-way streets and pedestrian zones are marked or marked (Édition Massin, about 5 euros, via www.massin.fr).
Book hotels A good place for cheap hotels in Paris is e.g. www.booking.com.
