Well here we are surviving a great cold spell, once four or five years we get a heavy snow time, but this time is coming back to back. Snow and polar icy weather. Paris is -9°C and on Versailles -11°C!!! wind chill,,, where I am it went down to -2°C only ::)
All these region are on alert orange for the cold, these are Alsace, Auvergne, Bourgogne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté, Limousin, Lorraine, Rhône-Alpes ainsi que : Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Charente, Dordogne, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Lozère, Deux-Sèvres, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne ,and Vienne. In Paris the only ice breaker on the river Seine came into action !!! to clear the canals of Ourcq, Saint-Denis, and Saint-Martin, to allow river navigation and stop folks from walking on the river lol!!! Record of electricity generation in France with 100.500 mégawatts (MW) at 19 h yesterday and maybe broken again today.
In another better news, the Tramway T3 is coming alone to start by December 2012, will hook up the périphérique and the canal de l’Ourcq, until the porte de Pantin (20éme) It will have 26 stations. And be on the look out for 2015 a direct line from airport CDG to Opera metro area.
The according to an article in Le Figaro ,the hamburgers are taken over Paris, well I knew that, they are all over France!!! frozen food Picard, and others, yet France remains the only and first name by UNESCO world heritage immaterial winner in Gastronomy and wines !!yeah!!! Some of the better burgers joints in the city are
Le Camion qui Fume ,makes its turn regularly by the marché Madeleine (8éme), porte Maillot (16éme),and at Point Éphémère (10éme). Burgers 8 €, 10 € with fries. http://www.lecamionquifume.com/ Big Ferdinand 55, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, 10éme Tél. +33 ( 0) 1 47 70 54 72.open every day except saturdays and sundays, prices Burgers 12-14 €. Livingstone Steak House 106, rue Saint-Honoré, (1éme). Tel +33 (0) 1 53 40 80 50. open every day. Bacon cheeseburger: 14 €. Fries: 3,50 €. several extras such as coleslaw, and salads): 5 €. http://www.livingstone.fr/
Some unique museums that you need to visit, while in town, apart from the popular ones are Musée de la chase et de la nature or museum of hunting and nature in the wonderful hotel de Guénégaud, the Musée Picasso, vastly in renovation on the wonderful hôtel Salé ,the renovation will take to reopen by june 2013, and the wonderful project of the Maison de l’histoire de France that will be in the rectangle of the Archives Nationales, hôtels de Soubise and de Rohan). If the project is maintained it will open by 2014 or 2015. In this area of Paris 3éme you can try the first creperie in Paris, Breizh Café 109, rue Vieille-du-Temple. Tél.+33 (0) 1 42 72 13 77), webpage http://www.breizhcafe.com/ and the wonderful Café des Musées 49, rue de Turenne. Tél. +33 (0) 1 42 72 96 17.
Well just a bit update on things around the big town, Paris is eternal ,cant be away from it too long, you will die sooner lol!!! Cheers
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