Paris
Well, Paris was everything I had hoped (but did not really expect after other disappointments). It really is as good as "they" say. Specifically it is as good as my mum, my friends and Jude say it is. Just walking around Paris is beautiful, and very cool...The architecture is amazing, the monuments are amazing, and the sense of history is just fantastic. Definitely the best city in Europe so far!
I went with my friend Sasha, his partner Claudia, and Michael (a friend of Sasha's from NZ). It was really great to see Sasha again, and Claudia (who is very nice). And in such a setting as well! I also got a chance to improve my French (which has been improving very slowly in Belgium), and after the weekend I noticed a definite improvement.
Other impressions from Paris: its expensive! (5 Euro for a coffee, 9 Euro for a beer!) The people are not as unfriendly as people say, in fact overall I found them quite nice (though some of the service was pretty appalling). The queues for everything were unbelievably long...that was not fun at all, and when I say queue I am being generous, usaully it showed more resemblance to a scrum. Pastries etc were amazing, but coffee was not so great. Food was definitely not as amazing as I had been led to believe (definintely not as good as Warsaw).
I saw many things (monuments, sites, sights...) but still only scraped the surface. I will definitely need to return.
Look for more posts and maybe some pictures soon.
Next stop Zurich!
I went with my friend Sasha, his partner Claudia, and Michael (a friend of Sasha's from NZ). It was really great to see Sasha again, and Claudia (who is very nice). And in such a setting as well! I also got a chance to improve my French (which has been improving very slowly in Belgium), and after the weekend I noticed a definite improvement.
Other impressions from Paris: its expensive! (5 Euro for a coffee, 9 Euro for a beer!) The people are not as unfriendly as people say, in fact overall I found them quite nice (though some of the service was pretty appalling). The queues for everything were unbelievably long...that was not fun at all, and when I say queue I am being generous, usaully it showed more resemblance to a scrum. Pastries etc were amazing, but coffee was not so great. Food was definitely not as amazing as I had been led to believe (definintely not as good as Warsaw).
I saw many things (monuments, sites, sights...) but still only scraped the surface. I will definitely need to return.
Look for more posts and maybe some pictures soon.
Next stop Zurich!
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