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we stayed about 35 minutes outside paris and caught the clean and reasonably inexpensive train into the city. the first thing that struck us was how incredibly clean everywhere seemed to be, compared with the dustbin that london is. The french obviously take great pride in the appearance of their capital, shame we don't do the same. Drinks and food are expensive but then again it is a capital city. It seems patriotism is rife in france,, especially paris, tricolours seem to fly everywhere and their war dead are also seriously honoured. If you are not going on an organised tour do your homework before you go as it is a big city and if doing it on foot as we largely did plan your route in advance as we didn't. my advice for visiting paris is ; 1. learn some basic french phrases i think they appreciate the effort. 2. dress well for paris to avoid looking like a tourist {it is a stylish city} 3. take a packed lunch stacks of places to enjoy a picnic 4. tell the eastern european scammers 'non' and walk on they'll move straight on to the next sucker 5. thoroughly enjoy this pretty, ornate, beautiful city.

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Last Visit: October 2008

12 October 2008 | A Yahoo! User

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