If you're planning on an extended stay in Paris consider the 5th arr. on the left bank and next to the Latin Quartier. We've been staying in a wonderful apartment on rue Poliveau for over six months now and couldn't imagine a more ideal location: very close to the no. 5, 7 and 10 metro lines, a 10-minute walk to the Gare d'Austerlitz and another 5 and you're at the Gare de Lyon; we're a block from the Jardin des Plantes and the Paris Mosque; a 10-minute walk to the funky and tres cool rue Mouffetard (The "Mooff"), another 5 minutes beyond and you're in the Sorbonne neighborhood; a twenty minute walk and you're at the Pantheon and then a few minutes beyond that you're at the Jardin du Luxembourg; or an easy half hour stgroll along the Seine and you're at Notre Dame and the Ile de la Cite.
Restaurants, cafes and food is everywhere. Just in our neighborhood at the corners of rue Poliveau, rue St. Hilaire and rue des Fosse St. Marcel, around the tiny Place de el Kader directly beneath our apartment you'll find a traditional French restaurant, two Asian "traiteurs" (mostly food-to-go), two fruit and vegetable stands (one undeniably better than the other), one Italian speciality food shop, a boulangerie just a few meters down the block next to another Asian restaurant, two cafes (one in our building on the ground floor) and a convenience grocery store! Plus two hair salons, an eyeglasses shop, a couple of women's clothing shops, a pharmacy, a small camera and electronic shop.
Welcome to Paris!
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