Re: [Leica] London and Paris

["Bill Christensen" <kangwei@interaccess.com>]

Thanks to everyone for their advice on London and Paris.  It will be a quick
but interesting trip.  I hope to bring many souveniers home on film.

Bill Christensen
- -----Original Message-----
From: Bruce R. Slomovitz <brslomo@erols.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] London and Paris


>Bill,
>
>Sorry to respond to you so late, but I've been away a few days.  A couple
of
>things I very much enjoyed seeing in Paris:  One is the Bagatelle Gardens.
>This is a small park and rose garden within walking distance of the Bois de
>Boulogne.  You won't see it in many tour guides but it' beautiful and I
>recall having seen roses there in September.   Take the M1 metro line in
the
>direction of La Defense or Les Sablon (I forget which), then get off and
>walk approximately South down Avenue de Madrid, which becomes Boulevard du
>Commandant Charcot.  Turn right on Avenue de Bretteville.
>
>Paris has many exquisite cathedrals, but my favorite is really outside
>Paris, in Saint Denis.  It was one of the first great Gothic cathedrals and
>in my opinion is more beautiful than Notre Dame. St. Denis-Basilique is
>approximately North of the city (reachable via Rer) and in an interesting
>Arabic neighborhood with some good restaurants.  There also some
interesting
>ancient but smaller churches in the area of St. Germain as well as some
good
>Greek restaurants.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Bruce S.
>
>