Frommer's 24 Great Walks in Paris 2nd edition

My hold on the second edition of Frommer's 24 Great Walks in Paris came through on Monday and I've been quickly perusing it. I was looking for a walk on our neglected Montparnasse and the very last walk "Painters' Paris" covers it. His (or their?) walks are pretty short: the longest is the Iron Lady of Paris at 2.4 miles and 3 hours. So that means we could do 3 a day and if we are there for 6 days, that's 18...whoops, I guess we'll have to do 4 a day.

Walk 3 is "The French Paradox" which allows us to eat at "Au Pied de Cochon" and then have a pastry at Stohrer's. There are quite a few walks in our neighborhood (as though I don't already have plenty of walks scoped out on the right bank). Maybe I'll take it along with us since it isn't due until the 14th. They have 3 walks from the first edition up on the Frommer's website but apparently they are trying to sell all the copies of the first edition before they advertise the second edition.

Gmaps Pedometer

Gmaps Pedometer is a mapping utility that you use in conjunction with google maps to trace out a walking (or running for the more spirited) route and calculate the mileage. When we walked the Pittsburgh half marathon two years ago I used it to calculate weekly training routes that Fernando and his GPS always claimed were longer than Gmaps Pedometer said. I've mapped a couple of Paris walks here from Tom's Strange and Interesting Walks. Now maybe Penny can map Rick Steve's walks...

16 rue St. Paul to the Arc de Triomphe
5.1 miles. It makes a detour up rue Montorgueil on its way to Montmartre that we could cut out and go straight down the rue de Rivoli or a parallel street. Do I want to go to the Arc de Triomphe? I do want to see les grands magasins Printemps and Galeries Lafayette.

16 rue St. Paul up to Montmartre
4 miles. This follows the above route but continues up rue Montmartre to Montmartre.

Tom's Walk of the Iles and the Left Bank
5.5 miles. This goes through the little back streets of the Latin Quarter and down to rue Mouffetard. We'll really need Tom's commentary for this one since it switches streets a lot.

Bastille, Marche d'Aligre, Viaduc des Arts
3.2 miles. This starts from the apartment and goes to the Bastille, up to the restaurants on rue de Charonne, down past the hardware stores on Rue Faubourg Saint Antoine, over to the Marche d'Aligre and Le Baron Rouge, and then down to the Viaduc des Arts. And then back home.

Walking Paris

One of my library books, Walking Paris by Gilles Desmons, is due today so I copied seven of the walks that were in our area: Le Marais, Republique and Temple, Beaubourg and Chatelet, Les Halles, Bastille and Faubourg St-Antoine, Pere-Lachaise to Buttes Chaumont, and The Passages. Of course that means that we're going to have a lot prepared for the Rive Droite but little for the Rive Gauche. However, Penny stayed in the Latin Quarter so she can help us there, as well as in Montmartre. And we might just run out of time and have to come back for the rive gauche... or at least for the Tour Eiffel.

There is a blog, Ready When You Are, CJ, that had great things to say about the book Walking Paris: Wednesday Wonder: Walking Paris by Gilles Desmons.