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I’m on the 7pm Eurostar on Saturday night for the rugby on Sunday and we’re staying quite close to Gare du Nord station until Monday night,but I’ve only ever been to Paris once,and that was only for a few hours but that was almost 40 years ago. Any tips for bars,food or travelling around the place would be very welcome.And things to do and see would be good too. Thanks.
We went 2 years ago, when England were dreadful. Needless to say the French fans were in good voice on the walk back to the station. We stayed near Gare Montparnasse, where train from Poitiers arrives. Plenty of eating places, at reasonable prices, in that area. You can go up the Montparnasse tower and see all of the city, including Tour Eiffel. Metro and RER trains are good, provided the strikes (against pension reforms) aren't still ongoing. Theres also a decent bus service around Paris.
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Area around the Pantheon and Rue Mouffetard specifically is very nice...i go on work trips to paris and its got a great selection of bars, pubs and restaurants around there...all very Parisian, tourist friendly but without being out and out touristy like other parts can be.
Area around the Pantheon and Rue Mouffetard specifically is very nice...i go on work trips to paris and its got a great selection of bars, pubs and restaurants around there...all very Parisian, tourist friendly but without being out and out touristy like other parts can be.
Used to have friends that lived on Rue Mouffetard....wonderful and atmospheric area.
Thanks for all the tips guys.Nobody mentioned that it took almost an hour to get into the ground from only 75 yards away. It took almost as long for England to get that far on the pitch though.We stayed in the Irish bars near the moulin rouge last night until tiredness/drunkenness overtook us all. Thanks to smithy and his in-laws for making the train journey home go quicker. A good weekend though all the same.
Anyone ordered the unwashed intestine sausage (sh1t sausage) by accident?
A mate of Orthodox_Hoop and mine did, he was holding his plate up to his family asking them if they could smell merde
Always attempt to translate the menu folks.
If you mean Andouillette, (which are chitterlings in English), they are sausages made from very small pigs intestines, then I agree with your gastronomic opinion and taste.
When you bite into the sausage, it feels like a thousand maggots have been let loose in your mouth, and they taste like you are eating shyte.
In the 80's, when I was in Rouen, I had a French product manager introduce Andouillette to me as a Norman delicacy, I almost threw up on the spot. When he came to the UK, I made him eat lava bread. (Welsh sea weed which tastes like it's been grown by a sewer outlet.
A bad taste score draw. Whereas this link below is something else ...
Anyone ordered the unwashed intestine sausage (sh1t sausage) by accident?
A mate of Orthodox_Hoop and mine did, he was holding his plate up to his family asking them if they could smell merde
Always attempt to translate the menu folks.
You mean Andouillette. A great French delicacy but I've never known an anglais eating it.
As you said, it smells like merde.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime. (Mark Twain)
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You mean Andouillette. A great French delicacy but I've never known an anglais eating it.
As you said, it smells like merde.
Tried it at a station service in France about 10 years ago as I stupidly didn’t bother to read the sign just saw what appeared to be a tasty sausage. I didn’t attempt to eat it once sliced open as I quickly realised what I’d ordered- grilled farmyard. However, as mentioned earlier, there are some who love it!
Anyone ordered the unwashed intestine sausage (sh1t sausage) by accident?
A mate of Orthodox_Hoop and mine did, he was holding his plate up to his family asking them if they could smell merde
Always attempt to translate the menu folks.
Arghhh, curse you. You have rekindled my memories of ordering this unsavoury, savoury item, which I thought I had permanently deleted from my brain.
While in France a few years ago, I saw this on a menu. Now, I will always look for something on a menu which I haven't tried before. I reviewed it's definition in my dictionary and it said something like it's a sausage made from tripe. My dad used to boil tripe in milk back in the day for what seemed hours, stinking out the kitchen, then add parsley and serve it on toast. It was actually quite nice. So emboldened with this memory from my formative years, I ordered the sausage.
Once you cut it open, and see the bits of compressed offal pouring out of the slit in the sausage casing as the pressure is released, you realise immediately that you have made a mistake. Its smell, odour might be more appropriate - it certainly isn't aroma,is also unappealing. You try it anyway and the taste is horrific. You bravely try to eat a few mouthfuls, but part of your brain is screaming at you to put down the cutlery. It is a meal quickly put down to "you win some, you lose some" and you hope to forget it forever.........
Arghhh, curse you. You have rekindled my memories of ordering this unsavoury, savoury item, which I thought I had permanently deleted from my brain.
While in France a few years ago, I saw this on a menu. Now, I will always look for something on a menu which I haven't tried before. I reviewed it's definition in my dictionary and it said something like it's a sausage made from tripe. My dad used to boil tripe in milk back in the day for what seemed hours, stinking out the kitchen, then add parsley and serve it on toast. It was actually quite nice. So emboldened with this memory from my formative years, I ordered the sausage.
Once you cut it open, and see the bits of compressed offal pouring out of the slit in the sausage casing as the pressure is released, you realise immediately that you have made a mistake. Its smell, odour might be more appropriate - it certainly isn't aroma,is also unappealing. You try it anyway and the taste is horrific. You bravely try to eat a few mouthfuls, but part of your brain is screaming at you to put down the cutlery. It is a meal quickly put down to "you win some, you lose some" and you hope to forget it forever.........
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