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Have been before and done all the usual stuff but other than the sacre coeur and round that area, i thought it was a bit pump!
Recommend me something different.
Reykjavik.
Tallin.
Take a 2CV tour!
Walk until you get lost.
Go to les banlieues for the full "La Haine" experience. Best to watch the film first, mind you
Go to Ladurée for afternoon tea. Hmmmmmm, maccaroon perfection!
try a Velib
Etc.
Ideas:
Hire a Velib on a Sunday. They close the Quais along the Seine from 9-5 or so, so you have a traffic-free route (most) of the way through the city. Costs €1 or €2 for a day pass then first 30 mins of each hire is free, then €1 for the next half hour.
Picasso museum is very good (in the Marais) - small so entirely managable (unlike the Louvre which is too vast to see in one visit) but really focused on one artist and his story of Picasso and explains the development of his art and style over time.
Go up l'Arc du Triomphe and watch the city from there, and the madness that is the traffic on l'Etoile.
Go to the Brassiere D'Ile St Denis for a Mutzig (if you've been to Morzine you'll know Mutzig).
The Catacombs are also good (down near Montparnasse) - they moved all the bones out of Paris's cemetaries in the 1800s and transferred them to disused limestone quarry tunnels under the city. Fascinating, if a little creepy.
Cemetiere Pere Lachaise is also good for a wander, but a bit of a mission on the metro.
Otherwise it's a great city for a wander. You could probably do that for a weekend without any plan if it's decent weather. For a wet day Musee D'Orsay is great, more modern work (impressionism onwards) and again quite manageable in an afternoon.
carry a camera along the seine, look like a tourist. Wait for the scammers to start scamming then mess with them!
My favourite is when they "find" a gold ring in front of you, but it doesn't fit them. They want to give it to you as a gift, but you must buy them a coffee/coke/beer etc then suddenly try want more money, or their friend arrives and they say you stole the ring etc etc. I find throwing the ring into the seine, shouting "for luck!" and skipping off surprises them best.
Anyone less talented than Jackie Chan should then dive into the Seine and swim off as the scammers operate in twos minimum and often gangs.
I loved the ring scam , the woman who tried to do us took my "no you keep it if it does not fit you can sell it to a jeweller for a lot of money" really well then tried the same trick on two more couples within about 30 seconds. within about 200 yards a guy tried the trick and laughed when i said no thanks we have already been done today.
I do love Paris but we just spend the days wandering around and going to the galleries.
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the [s]maratime, maratine,maritine,[/s] NAVY museum is interesting if your me.
lots of old paintings of french ships getting seven shades kicked out of them by "zose eviil engleesh merdes"