Hey all,
So I have been in Paris for about 4 days now. Some interesting things I noticed.
I find the people friendly but sometimes lol, funny experiences. We went to the Conciergerie today. I try to ask in french if it was the place where Gojira played. Lol it was so terrible she literally says in English, "I have no idea what you are saying. I speak English." In perfect English. So I ask again and she got kind of excited and was telling me where it was and how to get a good picture of the location.
We ate at one location next to the Conciergerie and it was a good experience. Again I tried my best to order in French, waiter was super accommodating. Super friendly. He was getting visibly irritated at the people not even attempting to speak French.
One interesting thing, we ate at the Versailles Palace and they asked us to tip.
Food is good, baked goods are awesome. France needs to sit down and join the rest of the world when it comes to ice. When it is 90+ degrees, drinking room temp water is not refreshing. But the water tastes better than other countries and even some of the other states I have been to.
The train. So I have been spoiled with my trips to Japan. I think AI runs their connection app because a regular human being is not going to go 800m in 2 minutes =/ we missed a couple of connections trying to run from one train to the next. The other; the trains NEED to say what they are on the outside. Several times we are wondering if it was the right train because there was nothing on the outside to validate it.
I can see the allure of Paris, for the young, as at night it is a pretty hopping place. Along the Seine there were djs going well into the morning.
Google maps...Holy f'ing crap...what is up with Google maps? So I plug in directions to X. Google has me all over the map. Cross this street to get back on the street to cross again to go back to the street I was on. Not only that, say I wanted to go to the Conciergerie from my hotel. It would tell me to go a couple blocks east then go west adding time and confusion. I am still using ATT as I have international in my data plan. Usually I would just plug in the location and make my own way over to the marker.
Laundry facilities. My wife and I walked 20 minutes to find a Lavari. No laundry facilities in our hotel, but that is on us. They have the service but not the machines. (We are used to going to resorts where they have machines).
Grocery stores. So we have been to 2 and I think we haven't been to a real store yet. We have been to Monoprix which is like hmmm a better mini mart I guess (but holy cow the amount of produce) we qent to another one that is more grocery store (can't remember the name) much better selection.
Will add to this.
Lol We are washing my clothes, which is how I have time to write this. One thing that really gets my goat though are the perfume baths. Dude. I was on the train next to someone one who i think soaked in perfume over night. My eyes were burning, I could barely breathe. And it happens often. I don't understand this.Can't they smell themselves??
So I have been in Paris for about 4 days now. Some interesting things I noticed.
I find the people friendly but sometimes lol, funny experiences. We went to the Conciergerie today. I try to ask in french if it was the place where Gojira played. Lol it was so terrible she literally says in English, "I have no idea what you are saying. I speak English." In perfect English. So I ask again and she got kind of excited and was telling me where it was and how to get a good picture of the location.
We ate at one location next to the Conciergerie and it was a good experience. Again I tried my best to order in French, waiter was super accommodating. Super friendly. He was getting visibly irritated at the people not even attempting to speak French.
One interesting thing, we ate at the Versailles Palace and they asked us to tip.
Food is good, baked goods are awesome. France needs to sit down and join the rest of the world when it comes to ice. When it is 90+ degrees, drinking room temp water is not refreshing. But the water tastes better than other countries and even some of the other states I have been to.
The train. So I have been spoiled with my trips to Japan. I think AI runs their connection app because a regular human being is not going to go 800m in 2 minutes =/ we missed a couple of connections trying to run from one train to the next. The other; the trains NEED to say what they are on the outside. Several times we are wondering if it was the right train because there was nothing on the outside to validate it.
I can see the allure of Paris, for the young, as at night it is a pretty hopping place. Along the Seine there were djs going well into the morning.
Google maps...Holy f'ing crap...what is up with Google maps? So I plug in directions to X. Google has me all over the map. Cross this street to get back on the street to cross again to go back to the street I was on. Not only that, say I wanted to go to the Conciergerie from my hotel. It would tell me to go a couple blocks east then go west adding time and confusion. I am still using ATT as I have international in my data plan. Usually I would just plug in the location and make my own way over to the marker.
Laundry facilities. My wife and I walked 20 minutes to find a Lavari. No laundry facilities in our hotel, but that is on us. They have the service but not the machines. (We are used to going to resorts where they have machines).
Grocery stores. So we have been to 2 and I think we haven't been to a real store yet. We have been to Monoprix which is like hmmm a better mini mart I guess (but holy cow the amount of produce) we qent to another one that is more grocery store (can't remember the name) much better selection.
Will add to this.
Lol We are washing my clothes, which is how I have time to write this. One thing that really gets my goat though are the perfume baths. Dude. I was on the train next to someone one who i think soaked in perfume over night. My eyes were burning, I could barely breathe. And it happens often. I don't understand this.Can't they smell themselves??
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