Central Paris : Faubourg du Temple, Belleville

[Minato Ku]

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My others photo threads.

Southern inner suburbs of Paris : part 1 2 3 4 5 6
Southwestern inner suburbs of Paris, part 1 2 3 4
Central Paris : around Avenue de l'Opera
Central Paris : Montparnasse, part 1 2 3
Central Paris : Around avenue d'Italie, Part 1 2 3
Western suburbs : Versailles
Western inner suburbs : La Defense, part 1 2 3
Central Paris : Champs Elysee
Central Paris : The heart of Paris, part 1 2
Central Paris : Paris rive gauche, part 1 2
Central Paris : Saint Lazare Haussmann
Central Paris : Barbes, part 1 2
Central Paris : Alesia
Central Paris : Bercy
Central Paris : Ternes
Paris, cloudy, rainy, gritty, grumpy, busy : like everytime
The busiest railway station and the largest subway underground complex in Europe
Boring city
800,000 passengers per day and me
Lyon, France : part 1 2 3
Lyon : Around Rue de la Republique
Tokyo by Minato
Kyoto by Minato
Mito Ibaraki, Japan by Minato

[aaron38]

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

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Now that's density. And I keep forgetting Paris has hills.
The Eiffel Tower in the distance really gives the scale of the place. That neighborhood is what, 3-4km from the center of Paris?

[Minato Ku]

The Eiffel tower is not really an indication for the center, since the Eiffel tower is not really in the center.
Belleville is at about 8 km of the ET but it is at the about 3 km of the hyper center (Chatelet les Halles).

Paris has several centers wich form a big one, so a large part of the inner city is the center and actually Rue du Faubourg du temple is in the center.

[Bergenser]

Indeed a large city.
How accepted is english in Paris?

[Kilgore Trout]

Nice! This whole area is my favourite part of Paris, especially right below the hill.

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by Bergenser

Indeed a large city.
How accepted is english in Paris?

Outside the tourist spots, speak in english to someone and it's likely you'll get a very odd look. The same look you'd get if you went up to someone in London and starting speaking French.
At the tourist areas, such as the Eiffel Tower, the people may speak odd words, or sentences that they need to do their jobs with - but if you think about it, this is France, so why should they speak english?
A philosophy of mine is if you're visiting a country with a different language, then it's you who should make the effort.

[Bergenser]

^thanks,
and yeah, the philosophy sure is nice for the natives.
My philosophy is:
I can't speak french and probably never will, it would be much easier if
all countries could accept english as a world language.

[R@ptor]

Nice photos.

When I'm in Paris I usually stay in this neighbourhood. Lots of cheap hotels, not far from the center and an interesting district.

[tackledspoon]

Ah, great shots of a city and a few neighborhoods that I really miss.

This VAR85 guy, definitely gets around. I can see one of his tags from my window in Chinatown, New York City, USA

[Minato Ku]

That's the globalisation of the graffiti.
Many famous Newyorker or Amsterdam graffer had graffiti in Paris.
Paris is the European most active European hip hop scene and one of most active in the world.

[Grumpy]

This is an arrondissement I don't know , thanks for sharing these photos.
Some steep parts over here

[Minato Ku]

You ndon't know the 11th and 20th arrondissements,
The next time go in these place it is very lively.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

You ndon't know the 11th and 20th arrondissements,
The next time go in these place it is very lively.

Thanks , that is something for early March

[Suffice]

I really liked Belleville! It's a special kind of place

[WEMO]

Great shots

[LSyd]

great tour.

Originally Posted by PeterG

Outside the tourist spots, speak in english to someone and it's likely you'll get a very odd look. The same look you'd get if you went up to someone in London and starting speaking French.
At the tourist areas, such as the Eiffel Tower, the people may speak odd words, or sentences that they need to do their jobs with - but if you think about it, this is France, so why should they speak english?
A philosophy of mine is if you're visiting a country with a different language, then it's you who should make the effort.

i had a nice lady walk up to me in the 17th and offer me advice on directions, in english, even though i speak french and heard no other english in the area.

that whole trip was funny because people kept coming up to me, "parlez-vous anglais?"

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[ColDayMan]

Wonderful!

[the sage]

Love the diversity there, I wonder if London or Paris is more cosmopolitan?

[geoff189d]

I've been looking at Paris on Microsoft (or Bing as it's now known) Birds-Eye view so your thread is most interesting. I'll check out your other posts. Thanks.