{"id":1058,"date":"2009-05-02T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2009-05-02T17:58:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:58:59","slug":"10-choses-paris-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"10 Choses &#8211; Paris edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was in France &#8211; unfortunately, not for vacay, I did have to work. Fortunately, I was able to make it to Paris twice &#8211; my extended family lives <em>just<\/em> outside Paris (about 20m on the RER) &#8211; so going into Paris isn&#8217;t a big hassle. It was a short visit, but it was a nice reminder why I love this city. So, naturally, I&#8217;ve put together a list of my 10 favorite things about Paris, France.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le Metro &#8211; Probably because I don&#8217;t take public transportation on a daily basis, but I LOVE the metro system in Paris (you probably think I&#8217;m crazy now, if you didn&#8217;t before). There is a metro stop nearly everywhere you go &#8211; unlike London &#8211; and you can get pretty much anywhere. Where else on a metro will you have crazy musicians or gypsies with portly babies begging for change?<\/li>\n<li>Le Tour Eiffel lit up at night &#8211; so beautiful, so romantic<\/li>\n<li>Crepes in the 5th &#8211; nothing, nothing beats a nutella crepe from one of the many crepe stands in the Latin Quarter<\/li>\n<li>Lu &#8211; not really Parisien, more like a French thing. Lu is probably the French equivalent of Hostess, but they put out much better snacks. A recent find of mine were the Pockitos &#8211; a shortbread type cookie bar filled with chocolate. Another good one is the Chocolate Oursons &#8211; yellow cake shaped teddy bears filled with, yes, you guessed it, chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Walking &#8211; the only way to really see a city is to walk its streets. No matter how tired I am, I find walking Paris is&#8230;energizing. Especially at night. We took a lovely post-dinner walk from the 7th, along the Champs Elysses, through Place de la Concorde, Place Vendome to Opera.<\/li>\n<li>Fresh baguettes &#8211; you haven&#8217;t tasted anything until you&#8217;ve had a FRESH baguette from the boulangerie<\/li>\n<li>History &#8211; the city is just teeming with history<\/li>\n<li>Croissants\/Pain au Chocolat &#8211; sorry, I just can&#8217;t seem to get away from the food!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cimeti%C3%A8re_de_Picpus\">Picpus<\/a> &#8211; I just think it&#8217;s fun to say.<\/li>\n<li>Steak Frites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that this doesn&#8217;t even come close for some people. What are your favorite things about Paris?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1059\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/toureiffel.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/toureiffel-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"taken from pont de l\\&#039;alma\" title=\"toureiffel\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/toureiffel-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/toureiffel.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">taken from pont de l'alma<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was in France &#8211; unfortunately, not for vacay, I did have to work. Fortunately, I was able to make it to Paris twice &#8211; my extended family lives just outside Paris (about 20m on the RER) &#8211; so going into Paris isn&#8217;t a big hassle. It was a short visit, but it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[113,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}