Quartier Caulaincourt Montmartre

[Anne]

Gitte, your second picture would be nice enough to be a postcard one !

[mez]

Laura,

What a cutie-pie your son is...those cheeks are just made for squeezing. I can just imagine him scrunching his face up like that when you asked him to smile in the photo.

[sandy]

Let me add some of my pictures too, taken last year:

[Laidback]

Thanks for the photos, Sandy. Could you please label some of them, as I only vaguely recognize a couple and it would be more meaningful to me to know what they represent. The vineyard, Maison Rose, Sacre Coeur are self evident, but I am blanking out on the others.

[lily]

Here are a couple of pics from Sept 2007 looking out from apartment on Abbesses. Sorry if the sizing is all wrong - first time 'n all that.


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[lily]

Ooops, sorry too big and one missing. Disaster

[lily]

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Here is the other one - will have to re-read instructions

[GitteK]

lily - this is so funny! In the top left corner of your first picture is the building with the apartment I lived in last summer ! Only my apt. was on the topfloor above the floor with the balcony shown in your photo.
Click to see my little birds' nest: RooftopVista

[Anne]

Oh, and on that same picture there is an Antoine & Lili shop ! I didn't know that they have other shops than their canal St Martin ones ! Fun accessories and clothes, do visit the shops if you happen to go past them .

[sandy]

Jim,
The third picture I really don't remember were was taken, we were just walking around and saw this nice house. It has a plaque but I don't know what it says. In what I think it's a solar clock I can only read Chanteray.
In the fourth picture, that's the building that's to the left of Sacre Coeur. (Does anyone know what it is?) There was a food market that day, that's why the tents.
And the fifth picture is just the back of Sacre Coeur.

[Jody]

If you can stand a few more pictures!

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

Wow, great pictures - thanks!

[annettecinca]

Jun 22, 2008 9:04:11 GMT -5 sandy said:

In the fourth picture, that's the building that's to the left of Sacre Coeur. (Does anyone know what it is?) There was a food market that day, that's why the tents.
And the fifth picture is just the back of Sacre Coeur.

Sandy, I think it's St. Pierre de Montmartre

[laurel]

Amazing info, suggestions and photographs! I feel like I'm in Paris already. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

[Laidback]

Everyone has great photos of Montmartre, most better than mine. This thread is getting a bit long but lets soldier on with the "Amelie Poulain"neighborhood. 1st get yourself back to the top of the hill where we were before by any of the methods I proposed for us (the lazy,less athletic ones), because I am going to take the easier, downhill route than our intrepid, younger Gitte who managed to make it straight up the hill from the Moulin Rouge. Take a detailed map along and we will continue South on rue Giradon from the Pl Marcel Aymé where we had our Kodak moment in the last installment and cross Rue Lepic and you will come to the Pl. Goudeau; from the bottom right (SE corner) of the place begins Rue des Trois Frères and immediately on the left at the corner of Androuet at #56 Trois Frères is the grocery store made famous in the movie as Collignon's grocery:



Now turn around and walk back across Pl Goudeau until you hit Rue Tholozé. If you look uphill on Tholozé you will see and can take a picture of the famous Moulin de la Galette:



Now, continue straight downhill on Tholozé, cross Rue des Abbesses and a little further downhill on the right you will see Amelie's Cafe, "Café des Deux Moulins" on the corner of Lepic and Cauchois. The food here is just south of average and the famous tabac section is gone, but the toilets where the wall-shaking tryst occurred is the same.



Don't put your camera away yet because about another 100 yards downhill on Rue Lepic is Pl. Blanche and the infinitely photographed Moulin Rouge. At Pl. Blanche there is a metro stop and your choice of about 4 buses to get where you need to be.

I don't recommend eating and drinking in this neighborhood, the prices are much higher than the quality; save that for the North slope of Montmartre or just a little further South into the 9th arrondissement.

In another installment I will show you many of the picturesque stairways of Montmartre that we have avoided doing anything but descending.

[luvparee]

Great "walk," LB! Thanks again. Now, can't wait for all the stair pictures -- just love them all!

[Sandy M]

I'm looking forward to the "stairway" pictures also - I have tried to take pictures of them but mine just don't seem to have the right depth perception.

[Laidback]

Montmartre is nothing if not "hilly". When you look at a map the distances are deceptively easy, but often the maps don't illustrate the many stairs connecting one street to another. I find most of the stairs attractive, particularly if they allow me to go downhill to my destination. Let's start on my corner of Rue Caulaincourt and rue des Saules; here is a px. of a wide, short stairway coming down from Pl. du Tertre, Lapin Agile, Montmartre vineyard via Rue des Saules as seen from Caulaincourt:



If you cross Caulaincourt and wish to continue straight on down the hill enroute to the Poteau market, etc. you will encounter these slightly narrower but still short flight, seen here looking up towards Caulaincourt from Rue des Saules:



The green awning you see at the top right is "our" fruit & Veggie shop on "our" corner of Saules and Caulaincourt run by 2 friendly ladies, Au Jardin de la Butte:



Just west of this intersection is where Lamarck and Caulaincourt merge and the metro and bus stops are located.



There is a short staiway going down from Caulaincourt to Lamarck where the entrance to the metro is with a café on each end, Chez Ginette and Le Refuge:



Continuing on downhill from Lamarck to Rue Marcadet it gets serious, your map will say Rue de la Fontaine du But, but this is what it really is:



Going on west along Caulaincourt the next "street" going downhill to Lamarck is Square Caulaincourt; how square is this:



This is a great, non-touristy neighborhood only a short distance downhill from the souvenir shops and beret, striped shirt wearing "artistes" of the Pl. du Tertre/Sacre Coeur area. If you are young a/o athletic it is great exercise, if you are fat/old/ or have compromised mobility a little planning is required to navigate it. Is it necessary that I divulge which category befalls me?

[Jody]

My knees gave out at the first picture!!

[Penny]

I'm with you there demarais-
I remember getting half way up and screaming at my boss (luckily friend) "which part of I don't do stairs did you not understand?"

Is it Abbesses that has the spiral stairs that goes on forever? I thought we were never going to get outside.