Paris Observed

  1. Parisians let their dogs shit everywhere.
  2. Being a tourist sucks. With 2 hour waits to get into Versailles and Notre Dame, it just isn't worth it.
  3. Damn, they know how to cook.
  4. And make wine.
  5. Don't expect much from the hotels, and they will meet your expectations
  6. No city (except New York) should allow buildings higher than 7 storeys. The lack of skyscrapers makes a city feel like somewhere that humans beings belong.
  7. All Metro stations smell like urine.
  8. The French get a day off work on May 1 to protest the advance of capitalism. The other 364 days, they celebrate it.
  9. Decending into Charles De Gaulle I noticed a patchwork quilt of impossibly small farm fields and one word sprang into my mind...."Agricultural subsidies". (OK two words, but you know what I mean)
  10. With the opulence at Versailles and the Louvre, it's no wonder they had a revolution.

 

 
 Heidi with the Seine and the Conceirgerie.  Moi, at the Centre Pompidou.
 
 The bottom of the Eiffel Tower Heidi at Versailles 

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