Créteil, p. 85
From the Métro station at Créteil-Université take the left exit for the Rue des Mèches, then the right-hand path marked by a red and white GR sign (see p. 239) and a sign for the Ecole Nationale de Musique. Stay on the right-hand side of the road, past a pretty little park surrounding an old mansion, once the home of a doctor who made his fortune from inventing digestive tablets. Further up the road, opposite the church, you will pass the pedestrianised Rue du Général Leclerc. There is a market here on Thursday and Sunday mornings and it is a good street in which to buy picnic supplies. Bill Marsano and Michael Bernstein
Conflans-Ste Honorine, p. 72
Les Gourmand’Ises has closed down. There is a new restaurant, Au Bord de l’Eau, at 15 Quai des Martyrs de la Résistance, tel 01 39 72 86 51, which is open for lunch every day except Monday and for dinner on Saturday. Menus from 28€.
Margaret Brownell
No first-hand reports as yet, but mentioned in Michelin. |
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Other useful sources of information, p. 241
The Ile de France tourist office at the Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris closed down in May 2009.
John Mills
New branches will be located at Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports and Versailles, but not in Paris. The useful publications recommended on pages 241-242 are no longer available and will not be reprinted, as they are now focussing on web-based information. You could ring the Comité Régional du Tourisme on 01 73 00 77 00 if you wish to express your dismay at this news, as I did.
Ecouen, p. 92
Renaissance concerts take place Sept-Dec and March-June. Ring 01 34 38 30 50 or visit http://www.musee-renaissance.fr/homes/home_id20787_u1l2.htm for detailed programme.
There is a promising-looking Portuguese restaurant in the main street, Rue Paul Lorillon, going downhill from the Mairie, on the right. Closed in July, so I couldn’t investigate, but menus around 25€. There are two shabby cafés, a supermarket and a quite good fast-food joint at the end of the street to the right of the church, Rue Colette Rousset.
Ecouen now has a tourist office with a tea-room. It is next to the church, with access to the Château from its garden. Manoir des Tourelles, 1 Place de l'Eglise, 95440 Ecouen, tel 01 39 90 85 32. Open daily 2-6 pm except Tuesdays. |