THINGS TO DO IN PARIS

This is a list of things that I have compiled of things to do if you are going to to go Paris anytime soon.


Museums and Operas :
The musée d'Orsay : http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html?S=acc
near from it, The musée Rodin : http://www.musee-rodin.fr/welcome.htm
Le grand Palais : http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/Homepage/p-617-Homepage.htm
Beaubourg, Pompidou center : http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/Document/HomePage?OpenDocument&L=2

The Louvre : http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en
Expo Annie Leibovitz : http://www.mep-fr.org/us/actu_3.htm
The Opera Garnier : http://www.operadeparis.fr/
La place des Abbesses : Metro Abbesses, http://www.lepic-abbesses.com/
Les catacombes : http://www.catacombes-de-paris.fr/english.htm
Le musée des egouts de Paris : http://www.egouts.idf.st/visite.html
Le musée de la photographie http://musee-photo.voyaz.com/
EXPO RICHARD AVEDON http://www.pixys-design.com/spip.php?breve13 (just till mid-Sept)

The gardens :
Le jardin des plantes, in the 5e arr., there's a door Rue Linné, m° Jussieu.
Le jardin du Luxembourg : ReR Luxembourg
Buttes Chaumont : from home take bus 60, in direction of Montmartre. http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/parc_des_buttes_chaumont
Père Lachaise Cimetary : M° Père Lachaise, http://www.pere-lachaise.com/

Shopping and drinks :
Les Champs Elysées
Le Boulevard St germain
M° Odeon
M°Place du Visages
M° Rue St. Honore (must got to COLETTE!)

Gifts to bring home:
Honey from Pain De Epice in the 13th arrondissement
Coffee from La Brulerie de Gobelins in the 5th arrondissement ...same coffee that Yves Camdeborde's Le Comptoir du Relais)
Olive Oil and seeds from Etablissement Lion in the 18th...items made from monesteries
Wine from Nicholas in 13th arr. or Chapeau Melon in the 19th (my new favorite is Bordeaux's...I think I am ready to move on from Pinot Noir's and Syrah's)
Cheese Pascal Trotte in the 4th, Coop.Latte Cisternino in the 9th, Alleosee in the 17th, Laurent Dubois in the 5th, Joel Meurdesoif in the 14th