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Issue No. 25, February 20, 2008
This week's Hobo is holier than thou with floors, walls and cows. We've got holy floors with Turkish Toilet Tales in French Tease, holy cows (and probably some holy cheese) at this weekend's Salon de l'Agriculture and holy walls as The Grub Hub heads to Chinatown looking for pho. Then go to Madrid in the Outbound Train for some sun and sidra.
| French Tease |
 | French Tease By Mollie Coyne Turkish Toilet Tales. When Andy flew over for his apartment scouting trip in the early winter of 2003, he found a good deal just outside of Paris—3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Only, he told me, that second bathroom was really a Turkish toilet. C'est what? Fr...
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| The Grub Hub |
 | The Grub Hub By Mollie Coyne Pho Bida Saigon. As I've explained before, Asian food in Paris bites the big one. Most Chinese restaurants call themselves traiteurs and offer silver-plated serving dish after silver-plated serving dish of gelatinous crap. I live near Chinagora and, surprising...
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| Outbound Train |
 | Outbound Train By Mollie Coyne A Weekend in Madrid. This week in Outbound Train, catch another el cheapo Ryanair flight and spend the weekend living like a Madrile?o, which means no sleep until you get back to Paris. Madrid, the capital of Spain, does not sleep until around 4 o'clock ...
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| Salon de l'Agriculture |
 | Out and About This Weekend By Mollie Coyne Salon de l'Agriculture. Towards the end of this week, you may notice a different type of French person roaming the streets of Paris. Maybe a bit on the chunky side, decked out in unfashionable threads and driving a clunker of a car. This person ca...
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