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I don't know about a Greggs but you can rest assured that there is a McDonalds and a Starbucks on the Champs-Elysées so there is no need to force any of that foreign french muck down your throat.
It is interesting how we are all different. I have a huge soft-spot for Paris mostly because I always felt I had eaten very well when visiting.
Yep has been there since ooh must be 1989 if not before - went there to get a Royale with Cheese - after getting some cassettes and Tshirts from the virgin megastore
Got to say, I will miss Harrods under the operation of Al Fayed.
The assistants won't miss The Fugging Egyptian Grocer.
Originally posted by Wiki
In 1983, Rowland took over The Observer newspaper and became its chairman. He also campaigned to gain control of Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, but he was defeated by Egyptian-born Mohamed Al-Fayed.[10] Rowland described his relationship with the Fayed family in his book A Hero from Zero.[11] He started with the following words:
Originally posted by Tiny Rowland's Observer
In Spring 1985, the three Fayed brothers acquired House of Fraser. They did so despite detailed allegations by Lonrho as to their unsavoury character and the fabrications as to their origins and wealth which they had invented to present themselves in a falsely favourable light.
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