No going to Paris for me on Tuesday night. My flight got canceled and I was shuffled off to the Radisson SAS Arlanda...sigh. 8:45am tomorrow to paris though!
Oh, and fun times at the airport version 43. I think the button on my jeans made the metal detector beep, so the lady at the gate had to pat me down...she totally copped a feel!
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Well, my adventures in Sweden are over for now...but I can't change the website that easily and I feel like my mental state is still in Sweden.
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Well, you're en route or at the airport so I don't know when you'll be online. "Delhys" Hotel doesn't book online...it's medieval, so to speak, but way cheap, quiet, and central. From airport, get off at the last stop on the Left Bank (Rive Gauche or the 4eme arrondisement (department)) and when you surface you should be on Rue St. Michel. There's an arched underpass (also med.), go through...that's down a few steps and under a building...and the hotel is on the right in a narrow, 1 block long street...no cars. It's at 22 rue de l'Hirondelle. 44E or $70...aauuugh...
OK, the next 2 don't book online either... and there are probably others...I'm just mentioning the ones in this area that I know to be good deals and clean enough.
Two blocks (?) down the Seine (go towards Notre Dame, it's noticeable) at 4 Rue St.-Julien-le-Pauvre is the Esmeralda ($50 and circa 1640), right across from Notre Dame on a park and kittycorner from Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore. It was in renovations of some sort last fall...needed them...so who knows? It was ultracheap with character. We went by in our perambulations. Shakespeare's had lost their cat that night... Oh yeah, curious possibility, sometimes they let students sleep in there.
Les Argonautes is ok if the Greek waiters aren't into breaking plates that night. That's on Rue de la Huchette...another connection between the Metro at St. Michel and the street the Esmeralda is on. $79 or SEK473 or 50E. Tomorrow, who knows?
Nearby, another option Hotel de St. Andre des Arts is at #66 on the street of the same name. The street is from the 1200's, don't know about the hotel, but it's an oldy too. I love the stone and timbers in the old ones. It's a block off St. MIchel in the other direction and rue de Buci runs into it...busy street market.
Oh, yeah, that reminds me...don't bother with the breakfast in the hotels, much more fun to head out and nab your own. Paris... really, how can you miss?
S'il vous plait...goes a long way. Merci.
Then there's the greatest flea market in the world.
And clothes...at least, windowshop!! Look!!!
Cheese. Wine. Fragrance. Design. Art. Music...all kinds...clubs...careful...
Love! Love it!
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