Hotels FAQ

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> +0200: >> He COULD go check out the Gare du Nord, if he’s >> on an "Amelie" sight seeing trip >He’ll need to wear yellow-tinted glasses for that, in order to get the >same distorted color used in the film. > I know Amelie is a movie, as you have noted. But what does the movie > have to do Gare du Nord? Care to elaborate?

You mean other than that much of the action takes place there?

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> I know Amelie is a movie, as you have noted. > But what does the movie have to do Gare du > Nord? Care to elaborate?

I don’t know.  Most of the movie takes place around Montmartre.  There were some scenes in a railway station, as I recall; perhaps they took place at the Gare du Nord (I don’t remember).

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Speaking of Amelie…I wondered if the veg-stall in the film was Le Consulat in Montmartre transformed. I suppose these days they can make anywhere look like anywhere but…… Smallpiece — Replies to newsgroup only unless you already have my addy in which case knock yerself out.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> they didn’t build a wall between the 10th and the 19th did they?  He COULD > go check out the Gare du Nord, if he’s on an "Amelie" sight seeing trip > > Other than the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, > > there isn’t that much in the area … > Buttes-Chaumont is in the 19th, although that is right next door.

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Other than the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, there isn’t that much in the area, though it would be an opportunity to sample the Parisian’s Paris.  Why don’t you check out Jack’s website (www.jack-travel.com) and check his list of inexpensive hotels in more interesting arrondissments?

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I plan on staying at a cheap hotel in that area and have heard that it > is unsafe. Is this true? What it the area like otherwise?

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> Other than the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, > there isn’t that much in the area …

Buttes-Chaumont is in the 19th, although that is right next door.

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they didn’t build a wall between the 10th and the 19th did they?  He COULD go check out the Gare du Nord, if he’s on an "Amelie" sight seeing trip

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Other than the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, > there isn’t that much in the area … > Buttes-Chaumont is in the 19th, although that is right next door.

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> He COULD go check out the Gare du Nord, if he’s > on an "Amelie" sight seeing trip

He’ll need to wear yellow-tinted glasses for that, in order to get the same distorted color used in the film.

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+0200: > He COULD go check out the Gare du Nord, if he’s > on an "Amelie" sight seeing trip >He’ll need to wear yellow-tinted glasses for that, in order to get the same >distorted color used in the film.

I know Amelie is a movie, as you have noted. But what does the movie have to do Gare du Nord? Care to elaborate?

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I plan on staying at a cheap hotel in that area and have heard that it is unsafe. Is this true? What it the area like otherwise?

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All of Paris is safe.  Situations and areas are unsafe only if you behave unsafely. The Tenth is not the garden spot of Paris by any measure, but it should not be a problem if you are not too na