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Netvision (Map; 01 43 25 13 90; 10 Gît le Cœur, 6e; per 1min €0.07, 20min €1.40; 10am-8pm; St-Michel) On a quiet street west of the blvd St-Michel.

Phon’net (Map; 01 42 05 10 73; 74 rue de Charonne, 11e; per 1/5/15/30hr €5/16/30/45; 10am-midnight; Charonne or Ledru Rollin)

Taxiphone Internet (Map; 01 42 59 64 14; 2 rue de La Vieuville, 18e; per 5/10/20/30/60min €0.50/1/2/3/4, per 5hr €10; 9am-10pm Mon-Sat; Abbesses) One of the few internet cafés in high-rent Montmartre.

Web 46 (Map; 01 40 27 02 89, fax 01 40 27 03 89; 46 rue du Roi de Sicile, 4e; per 15/30/60min €2.50/4/7, per 5hr €29; 10am-11pm Mon-Fri, 10am-9pm Sat, noon-11pm Sun; St-Paul) Pleasant, very well-run café in the heart of the Marais.

Zeidnet (Map; 01 44 07 20 15; www.zeidnet.com; 18 rue de la BÛcherie, 5e; per 10/30/60min €1/2.50/4; 10.30am-11pm; Maubert-Mutualité) Small and personal, handy to Notre Dame.

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LAUNDRY

There’s a laverie libre-service (self-service laundrette) around every corner in Paris; your hotel or hostel can point you to one in the neighbourhood. Machines usually cost €3.50 to €4.50 for a small load (around 6kg) and €5.50 to €8 for a larger one (about 10kg). Drying costs €1 for 10 to 12 minutes. Some laundrettes have self-service nettoyage à sec (dry-cleaning) machines.

You usually pay at a monnayeur central (central control box) – not the machine itself – and push a button that corresponds to the number of the washer or dryer you wish to operate. Some machines don’t take notes; come prepared with change for the séchoirs (dryers) as well as the lessive (laundry powder) and javel (bleach) dispensers.

The control boxes are sometimes programmed to deactivate the machines 30 minutes to an hour before closing time.

Among centrally located self-service laundrettes are the following:

C’Clean Laverie (Map; 18 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 11e; 7am-9pm; Oberkampf)

Julice Laverie 56 rue de Seine, 6e; 7am-11pm (Map; Mabillon); 22 rue des Grands Augustins, 6e; 7am-9pm (Map; St-André des Arts)

Lav’ Net (Map; 88 bis blvd du Port-Royal, 5e; Port-Royal)

Laverie Libre Service 7 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1er, near the BVJ Paris-Louvre hostel (Map; 7.30am-10pm; Louvre-Rivoli); 14 rue de la Corderie, 3e (Map; 8am-9pm, République or Temple); 35 rue Ste-Croix la Bretonnerie, 4e (Map; 7am-9pm, Hôtel de Ville); 25 rue des Rosiers, 4e (Map; 7.30am-10pm; St-Paul); 216 rue St-Jacques, 5e, three blocks southeast of the Panthéon (Map; 7am-10pm; Luxembourg) 63 rue Monge, 5e, south of the Arènes de Lutèce (Map; 6.30am-10pm; Place Monge) 3 rue de la Montagne Ste-Geneviève & 2 rue Jean de Beauvais, 5e (Map; 7am-11pm; Maubert-Mutualite); 116 rue d’Assas, 6e (Map; 7am-10pm; Mabillon); 94 rue du Dessous des Berges, 12e (Map; 7.30am-10pm; Bibliothèque); 92 rue des Martyrs, 18e (Map; 7.30am-10pm; Abbesses); 4 rue Burq, 18e, west of the Butte de Montmartre (Map; 7.30am-10pm; Blanche)

Laverie Libre Service Primus 40 rue du Roi de Sicile, 4e(Map–9; 7.30am-10pm St-Paul); 83 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 11e; 7.30am-10pm (Map; Couronnes)

Laverie Miele Libre Service (Map; 4 rue de Lappe, 11e; 7am-10pm; Bastille)

Laverie SBS (Map); 6 rue des Petites Écuries, 10e; 7am-10pm; Château d’Eau)

Salon Lavoir Sidec (Map; 28 rue des Trois Frères, 18e; 7am-8.50pm; Abbesses)

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LEGAL MATTERS

Drink Driving

As elsewhere in the EU, the laws in France are very tough when it comes to drinking and driving, and for many years the slogan has been: ‘Boire ou conduire, il faut choisir’ (roughly – to make it rhyme in English too – ‘To drive or to booze, you have to choose’). The acceptable blood-alcohol limit is 0.05%, and drivers exceeding that amount but still under 0.08% (the limit in the UK and Ireland) face a fine of €135; over 0.08% and it could cost you €4500 (or a maximum of two years in jail). Licences can also be immediately suspended. If you cause an accident while driving under the influence, the fine could be increased to €30,000. And if you cause serious bodily harm