I have never been to Paris and enjoyed your perspective which is different than what is generally given. Maybe someday... :D The pictures are good, too. Thanks, Melissa.
I haven't been to Paris in quite a few years now, but I did enjoy walking around and taking transit. The Seine is, of course, somewhere with a real sense of place, and it's possible to just do the flaneur thing for unlimited amounts of time.
I also hear that the farther-out banlieues are full of dense residential towers and may be less livable than the centre. Haven't quite been there though.
One of the biggest challenges was being there just for a week, we wanted to see and do so much, it didn't leave as much time for just sitting and idling away the evening. We definitely did some of that, but I would have loved to do more :)
I have only transited through Paris international airport where I found a luggage trolley with rubber wheels and a large chunk of hair and dust trapped in the wheel well. I realized as I walked around that it was accumulating a sizeable electric charge and would regularly zap me when I would touch the metal part of the cart. I probably also ate at least one chocolate croissant there.
I have never been to Paris and enjoyed your perspective which is different than what is generally given. Maybe someday... :D The pictures are good, too. Thanks, Melissa.
I haven't been to Paris in quite a few years now, but I did enjoy walking around and taking transit. The Seine is, of course, somewhere with a real sense of place, and it's possible to just do the flaneur thing for unlimited amounts of time.
I also hear that the farther-out banlieues are full of dense residential towers and may be less livable than the centre. Haven't quite been there though.
One of the biggest challenges was being there just for a week, we wanted to see and do so much, it didn't leave as much time for just sitting and idling away the evening. We definitely did some of that, but I would have loved to do more :)
I have only transited through Paris international airport where I found a luggage trolley with rubber wheels and a large chunk of hair and dust trapped in the wheel well. I realized as I walked around that it was accumulating a sizeable electric charge and would regularly zap me when I would touch the metal part of the cart. I probably also ate at least one chocolate croissant there.