Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2017 17:38:11 GMT
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What a wonderful quest !
RE: I drew the line at visiting the Parisian sewers ( even if there is actually such a tour
I went to Paris in my youth, mostly to see Notre Dame and the Louvre since they would never come to me.
One of the highlights of my trip was the Sewer Tour. I don't know if they still do the tours but if they do ... worth the trip. I went on the tour inspired by the Phantom underground scenes. The tour starts right at the Opera House !
They are actually drain sewers not sewage sewers and you go in a big boat. It was GREAT. I don't even remember a smell other than "damp".
This tour provided me with one of my more positive encounters with Parisians. I was talking to an older man while waiting fo the tour to start and he was very patiently communicating with me in my probably grade school level high school French. Meanwhile a group of "young adults" were snickering at us and my feeble efforts. He told me to ignore them and we did. I could understand French better than I could speak it. We sat together on the tour. Ah, Memories of world travel !
What a wonderful quest !
RE: I drew the line at visiting the Parisian sewers ( even if there is actually such a tour
I went to Paris in my youth, mostly to see Notre Dame and the Louvre since they would never come to me.
One of the highlights of my trip was the Sewer Tour. I don't know if they still do the tours but if they do ... worth the trip. I went on the tour inspired by the Phantom underground scenes. The tour starts right at the Opera House !
They are actually drain sewers not sewage sewers and you go in a big boat. It was GREAT. I don't even remember a smell other than "damp".
This tour provided me with one of my more positive encounters with Parisians. I was talking to an older man while waiting fo the tour to start and he was very patiently communicating with me in my probably grade school level high school French. Meanwhile a group of "young adults" were snickering at us and my feeble efforts. He told me to ignore them and we did. I could understand French better than I could speak it. We sat together on the tour. Ah, Memories of world travel !