Monday, March 19, 2007

Berthillon Ice Cream

I said, “WE HAVE NO ICE CREAM!!” This photo was taken on the Ile Saint-Louis, where there are several famous local Berthillon ice cream shops (but not at this café and stop asking!).

This small island in the middle of the Seine is only eight blocks long and three blocks across at the widest. There is no Metro stop, no cinema, no police station, and only one cafe-tabac. In the past decade, they finally got their own post office. Stubbornly reclusive, the long-time inhabitants, called Ludoviciens, still refer to the rest of Paris as "the Continent."

The residents of the exclusive neighborhood do not appreciate the foot traffic from tourists that crowd their few small streets looking for the famous ice cream, which is very, very tasty. But not here and stop asking!!