Reply to: Paris + My thoughts

[SupremeSpod]

Ive been all over the place... Denmark, Sweden, many American states, south of France, Italy, Iceland, Newfoundland, hitched across Ireland, Holland, Luxembourg, etc etc...

I could start with Swindon and work my way up....

Amadeus...by any chance?

[sunnysan]

Eh?

Nah.. Just an English loving Saffer... hey Ou Boet ? :-)

Well, a Saffer living in England would be a more appropriate description.

However if not sitting in the Springbok Bar whinging about how cr£p the UK is drinking Castles at £3 a pop consitutes being English loving then I am guilty:-)

[n5gooner]

vive la difference !


- at least in Paris you dont pay mega££££ to eat decently

not when the clients paying !

[Grommit]

I am not English

Nah.. Just an English loving Saffer... hey Ou Boet ? :-)

[sappatz]

Paris

vive la difference !

one positive thing about Paris VS London :

- at least in Paris you dont pay mega££££ to eat decently

one of the most expensives restaurant i have ever been to was in London.

[mcquiggd]

Ive been all over the place... Denmark, Sweden, many American states, south of France, Italy, Iceland, Newfoundland, hitched across Ireland, Holland, Luxembourg, etc etc...

I could start with Swindon and work my way up....

[sunnysan]

Mm

I am not English

[Mailman]

I wonder SS if your experience has more to do with you being English than anything else?

Mailman

[Rebecca Loos]

Well I have just been to Paris too, to see Coldplay live (very good, incidentally - recommended!), and I kinda agree overall with your opinions, sunnysan

A few more things though:
- people in Paris aren't loud and lairy like in London
- Paris has got much less clubs / DJ bars
- it's much much easier to find a quick bite to eat in Paris, there are brasseries at every street corner
- shopping is much better (London only has the dreaded Oxford Street, Knightsbridge and Camden Market really - in Paris, the shops are spread all over the city and it feels like they have less chains and more individual shops)
- watch your step in Paris as there is dog tulip everywhere
- the tube is much cheaper!!! And during my 3 days there, not once did we stop in a tunnel for a while with no explanation whatsoever - but on my return to London, straight away the Jubilee line stopped half-way through 2 stations for 2 minutes.

Overall, some things are better there, some things are better here....

[expat]

Well done sunnysan, you'll have the makings of a travel writer before you know it!

Did you take a stroll down Rue St Denis while you were there?, that's also quite an interesting part of town.

An incidental amusement after dinner at Julien (Good restaurant with original 1900 Art Nouveau decor: it has stayed the same while the rest of the quartier has changed).

[Joe Black]

Well done sunnysan, you'll have the makings of a travel writer before you know it!

Did you take a stroll down Rue St Denis while you were there?, that's also quite an interesting part of town.

[n5gooner]

I have oftern been to Paris and worked there breifly on occasion, I would like to live there for a while, contact with a few contacts I have made......yes Paris has faults, but don't most Citys?

[AlfredJPruffock]

I had the pleasure of living in Paris for one year, I rented a house boat (well the front cabin) situtated in front of the Champ de Mars station , which is in front of the Effiel Tower.

I had a wonderful time, beaucoup des euros, wine,women and song.

Yes one night in Paris is like a year in any other place.

And the houseboat would have been just to the right of this picture






Forty two, quarante-deux, Rue de Saint Jacques
All our girls are, how you say, good in the sack

I was a stripper on the Champs-Elysees
He was a Gendarme in the Gendarmerie

Going ooh la la la ooh la la la la ahh

He was a pimp in a black beret
But he was an artiste in his own way

Going ooh la la la ooh la la la la ahh

When they raided my club that night, that night
They ruined my act with the leather umbrella

The Chief of Police got a fright, got a fright
He was up in my boudoir with some other fella

Ooh it's only routine
But I got this feeling it ain't good for business

Then the floor cleared, a woman screamed to herself

Alfie ... though you're not the toast of Paris, I love you
Although you bed and beat me, Alfie

Leave it alone for the Gendarme's just doing his job
Paris is only one step away, murder is only one step away

Notre Dame is ringing her bells
Another gendarme has gone to Hell
To Hell, to Hell to Hell, to Hell
To Hell, to Hell to Hell

One night in Paris is like a year in any other place
One night in Paris will wipe the smile off your pretty face

One girl in Paris is like loving every woman

This night in Paris, this night in Paris

This night in Paris may be your last!

[Chico]

The French

About ten years ago my mum took a coach trip to France and one of the passengers on the coach had a heart attack and died when they got to Paris. The French police and emergency services turned up and lay the dead body on the pavement and chatted while waiting for the body to be collected. Needless to say the people on the coach were horrified and distressed by the cavalier attitude of the French authorities. Says it all really.

[Francko]

Would also add:

- If your wife/girlfriend is blonde, be ready to have hordes of troglodytes drooling on her and act like if you are armed and ready to fight back, possibly with a Jack Nicholson/"Shining" crazed look