Paris is for lovers...
Benjamin
jaffa276 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 16 20:12:41 UTC 2001
...definitely.
> WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN IN PARIS
>
> 1) NEVER arrive at Heathrow Airport an hour and a half before your
> flight is scheduled to leave. The queues will be unbelievably
long.
> You will miss your flight.
... and Paris Beauvais is not in Paris. I think perhaps they only
put the "Paris" bit on the front to appease RyanAir. The transfer
took longer than the flight.
>
> (We were lucky... we missed our 8:15 flight but made the 8:45 one.)
>
> 2) NEVER take the RER to the general area of your hotel, thinking
to save money by trekking on foot as opposed to taking a taxi.
>
And never, ever, trust anyone else to book the hotel, especially if
they decide "there will be plenty of rooms there, and I want to see
what they are like first" In July. After 3 hours we had not found
any hotels with free rooms. Except one, which only had a double.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't want to sleep with my boss (though
we did end up in a gay bar in Brighton. But I digress.)
[snip]
> The Metro was closed... gates were over every entrance.<<
We found this too, only walked down the line (away from the river)
and found one station still open. On the RER line. Though the
station wasn't on the map, and apparently we shouldn't have used our
RER tickets, as we wanted to get on and off in 'Paris' - fortunately
I don't speak very good French because I'm sure this woman was
insulting me.
>>> I think that I'll go back to Paris someday... but only if I can
stay near the Seine, and am traveling with a man who I'm in love with
and who speaks fluent French.<<<
Now that sounds perfect. Even without the fluent French part. The
Seine in the (very) late evening is... well, I lagged behind and
dreamt. Only trouble is, I'm dreaming my life away... (sorry, I seem
to be taking after Shrek's donkey) ... and had to go to work the next
day.
We got lost under the Arc de Triomphe too.
-Ben, who has never thought of putting peppercorns with smoked salmon
before.
More information about the HPFGU-OTChatter
archive