Cheap Paris Weekend
A $100 Weekend in Paris
Ooh la la, a cheap Paris weekend! Couldn't get much better than that -- if it's even possible. But with some careful planning and cautions spending, writes The New York Times, you can have your days and nights and enjoy them, too.
"ONE Friday night last month, I stood watching a North African band called Daxar perform at the Satellit Café world music club in Paris and was considering having a beer. By the time the band had finished its Magrebian take on the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" ("Do you know this one?" the band leader asked coyly. "It's not ours."), I had decided against it. Such luxury could cost me the Louvre on Sunday, or wine with lunch Saturday.I was trying to make it on $100 over a weekend in Paris, and that meant forgoing the beer -- and the Louvre and wine with lunch as well, it turns out..."
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