Go to a restaurant called Chez Gladines, near Place D'Italie. It is cheap (for Paris) and you get masses of food and get there early because it opens at 7pm and by 7.30 there is a queue, despite it being too early for the French to eat.
In Montmartre, near Sacre Coeur, there's a square full of artists, with half of them selling expensive paintings and half of them doing portraits. It's fun to wonder around, peering at all the portraits in progress and comparing what each artist does wrong - this one gets them slightly too fat, this one too thin, this one gives them a murderous stare - and to whisper things like "oh, but she doesn't have a moustache!" or glance back and forth between the drawing and the subject with a confused look.
Also near the Sacre Coeur there's a shop called Zut! which mostly sells massive clocks (from train stations).
Also, book everything in advance because there are mega queues. Also, you are under 26 so you can get in everywhere for free (or reduced), and where free you generally don't need a ticket so can join straight into the entry line and skip the ticket one (which is always much longer).
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Date: 2010-01-18 01:36 am (UTC)In Montmartre, near Sacre Coeur, there's a square full of artists, with half of them selling expensive paintings and half of them doing portraits. It's fun to wonder around, peering at all the portraits in progress and comparing what each artist does wrong - this one gets them slightly too fat, this one too thin, this one gives them a murderous stare - and to whisper things like "oh, but she doesn't have a moustache!" or glance back and forth between the drawing and the subject with a confused look.
Also near the Sacre Coeur there's a shop called Zut! which mostly sells massive clocks (from train stations).
Also, book everything in advance because there are mega queues. Also, you are under 26 so you can get in everywhere for free (or reduced), and where free you generally don't need a ticket so can join straight into the entry line and skip the ticket one (which is always much longer).