We had a wonderful few days in Paris at Raphael's flat. We never met him in person but there was pretty much everything we needed (apart from a chopping board) and everything was comfortable and worked like a dream. It was a really great find.

Monmartre itself is a very touristy area so beware, we paid €20 for 2 glasses of very average wine in the square round the corner. There are plenty of other much cheaper and nicer places just a few minutes walk down the hill but perhaps don't go for the obvious.

We found the most wonderful wine bar called Le baron Rouge in the Ledru Rollin area and we fell in love with it. The area itself is alot like soho in london with lots of very reasonable and very good restaurants and a wonderful market during the day.

The only thing I would say about the flat is that it is a little hard to find and Raphael hadn't contacted us to give us instructions. So might be worth contacting ahead of time for some instructions.