Whoops - should have checked the map, since it's a long time since I was last in Paris!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 2:51 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: OT: Spaghetti Sauce Sacre-Coeur is on top the Buttes-Montmartre. The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is on top of the Buttes-Chaumont. Different buttes in a different part of town. > > "Near the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont" may help to explain it: > when the Pope and I visited Paris on the same week-end in May > of 1979(?), our group got non-existent service from a > restaurant at the foot of the Butte: all the staff, it seems, > had gone up the hill to mass with the Pope at Sacré-Coeur! > That and other disasters lead to the end of a very warm > relationship... > > John in Brisbane > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bob W > Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 4:15 AM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: OT: Spaghetti Sauce > > > My experience in France (probably applies everywhere in > fact) was to > > only go in those restaurants where there is barely a table > to be had, > > and the clientele are all locals. > > Worked a treat in China, Vietnam and Hong Kong: not so well > in Egypt, > > where I found I did not really like much of the food anyway. > > > > John in Brisbane > > Not foolproof though. I was the 2nd person in here at > lunchtime, but by the time I'd finished it was packed: > <http://www.web-options.com/Paris2010/content/L1000147_large.html> > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
