29 October 2012

Find Paris beyond tourist traps

A visit to the Ile Saint-Louis starts with the advantage on the famous Berthillon ice cream Cafe. The ice cream is said to be the best that the French capital has to offer, and there are several kiosks on the tiny island, but the greatest variety is recommended glassbaren of the cross Rue des Deux Ponts, and main street Rue Saint Louis en l'Ile.

Sex report that "snakes" along the street is moving slowly forward and waiting time devotes most of the customers to select the best combination of classic flavors that are offered.

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If this has been United States had glassarna come up with fascinating names and interspersed with crushed cookies, toffee and marshmallows. But this is Paris, and here choose between dark chocolate, raspberry, mango, vanilla and romrussin-among other things. It's not the names that sell ice cream without taste experience, and it is clean, okonstlad, intense and genuine. It is quite impossible to decide a winner at the first visit, so the best advice is to come back.

Ile Saint-Louis is the smaller of the Islands. The larger island, Ile de la Cité are much better known. This was Paris's first settlements, and this is today one of the capital's most famous landmarks, Notre Dame. Tourists swarm around the island and the legendary bridge Pont Neuf.

Between the Ile de la Cité and Ile Saint-Louis, the simpler bridge, the Pont Saint-Louis, and immediately when you come across on the other side of the decreasing amount of tourists. Unlike the larger systerön, the little Saint Louis a highly vibrant neighborhood where monuments are few, but the residents even more. And among the shops that line the main street kullerstenslagda are delicious delicacy shops, exclusive boutiques, art dealers and Antiquarian Booksellers.

-I was the first in the world to open a bookstore specializing in travel literature, "says Catherine Domain, and keep up the door fast store is actually closed.

She is an inveterate globetrotter who spent ten years on the road before she decided to open the bookstore Ulysse on Ile Saint-Louis. The deal is sprängfylld with literature and maps, ten shelves high and three paper widths deep, travel literature packed. Catherine Domain has the exact track of everything and mix healthy between straightforward guide books and poetry.

-My favourite is the Pacific region. I have travelled a lot. Come into my shop, it's best to know what you are looking for, I'm almost always here and happy. But only if customers are nice. Otherwise, it could be, "says Catherine Domain.

She lives not on the island but like calm and familiar feeling that is here and she is very familiar with its history.

-What makes the area special is that the facades which you see today, was built all at the same time it is around the middle of the 17th century. Along the quays, the nobility, who stood near the King. In the middle of the island lived for those who were not quite as rich. It is exactly the same today, "said Catherine Domain.

Opposite the Bookstore is the Church, the pointed tower with cut circles can be seen from a distance. Just as the bookstore Ulysse, the Church is not particularly impressive on the outside-but goes inside the heavy doors open up a church in pompös Baroque style. The bright room in white and gold, contrasting to the bleak facade, and for those who want to do a deep dive into the history of the Church, now and then a guided tour.

A little further down on the main street, against Notre Dame, boutiques and antikvariaten on each other. Buy cakes of Cure Gourmande or designs much of Sobral. Butcher Jean-Paul Gardil are awards and prizes in the window and the cheese merchant Franck Guillot, who stands behind the counter at La Ferme Saint-Aubain, lies the cheese tightly, tightly.

-We sell over 100 types of cheese from different parts of the country. A lot of tourists come here, so we are packing everything for transport for those who want to, "said Franck Guillot where he stands among the cured meat products and sausages, vällagrade hard cheeses, sweet-smelling mould cheeses and creamy goat cheeses.

La Ferme Saint-Aubain is the perfect place to botanisera and shop for a picnic along the banks of the Seine. Seating improvised depending on time and weather. Just choose a location along the quay, go down a half step down towards the river or sit in the small park, which is located on the island's eastern tip.

Monique Pellissier at Galerie Alizé recommends otherwise, a bite to eat at the Brasserie de Ile Saint-Louis.

-Absolute. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, the menu is typical French it could be and it is without a doubt my favorite on the island, "says Monique Pellissier.

She has driven his art trade since 1989 and is addressed primarily to collectors. Monique Pellissier think Saint Louis reminds her of old Paris. As it once was.

Of course change the part, before there were no shops that were part of a chain. Some of them are located along the main street today, "she says with a little supercilious voice.

"But remains the island himself. Of course, the many tourists, but the feeling of authenticity is not lost. Not here, "said Monique Pellissier.

A carafe (0.5 litre) red wines 10-14 euros, metroresa 1.7 euros, main course 15 euro. Hotel night in double rooms, three stars, around 160 euros.
At the bottom of the main street is Café St. Regis-a room filled with patina, its friendly leather sofas and checkered floors. Smoking hot chocolate dialed up from white pitchers and rödvinet served as it should be in caraffes.
Outside of the five bridges linking the Île Saint-Louis with the rest of Paris. The island is at the same time very central, and a quiet little avkrok that made for slow walking.

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