Batignolles Park (Paris, 17th Arondissement)
Channel: slobomotion
Date: 2012-08-27

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Had Paris won the 2012 Olympic Games, the Olympic Village would have been built in this area -- I am glad London won.

Don't be fooled by the open and somewhat noisy train tracks heading to and from Gâre Saint-Lazare -- this has become one of the most pleasant areas of Paris.  Terrific ambiance, elegant residential buildings generally dating from the 1880s, a park, hotels, shops and services all around, good public transportation ... we'd live here.  Any day.

There's something very "genuine Paris" about this neighborhood, which still has cafés and florists open on a Sunday afternoon (Paris tends to be closed on Sundays).  We spotted a very new, unusually pretty apartment building with solar panels.  Sundays in France feature long, large lunches at home with family and friends and restaurants tend to take their day off then, but there's an Indian restaurant here I'd like to try, and an Italian place with a big outside terrace.

We bought ice cream and looked at the water fowl and giant carp in this park.