Snake-Pit Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I want to go..................I'm thinking, buy French stuff in France and take them with me for my business trip to America that I want to do.But really, I want to see Paris.Been hanging out with the French heads this week, On Monday, my friend and her friend, my friend is from Montinique and her parents live in Paris, and her friend who's parents are from Ivory Coast and live in Paris, who I met, and she was going to Paris on Tuesday to see them and she was taking her son.... Anyway, I heard from that that it was cheaper to take the coach down, and the cheapest before I found out about that was £80 rtn on Eurostar, and I think flying there is like £100/£120/£140 rtn... - Even if you find a budget airline that'll fy you anywhere for £17.99 or something, never include the hefty flight tax thing for taking off from a UK airport, like £60...Has anyone ever been?What's it like?I first want to go to Paris, then if ever I go back, I'd like to see other places in France; but first Paris.I once turned down a trip to go shopping in France around our birthday with this girl because it wasn't Paris, in 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Oh they would love you, the French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I want to hear more about your business trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I want to go..................I'm thinking, buy French stuff in France and take them with me for my business trip to America that I want to do.But really, I want to see Paris.Been hanging out with the French heads this week, On Monday, my friend and her friend, my friend is from Montinique and her parents live in Paris, and her friend who's parents are from Ivory Coast and live in Paris, who I met, and she was going to Paris on Tuesday to see them and she was taking her son.... Anyway, I heard from that that it was cheaper to take the coach down, and the cheapest before I found out about that was £80 rtn on Eurostar, and I think flying there is like £100/£120/£140 rtn... - Even if you find a budget airline that'll fy you anywhere for £17.99 or something, never include the hefty flight tax thing for taking off from a UK airport, like £60...Has anyone ever been?What's it like?I first want to go to Paris, then if ever I go back, I'd like to see other places in France; but first Paris.I once turned down a trip to go shopping in France around our birthday with this girl because it wasn't Paris, in 2010.Watch the film Breathless...its basically all like that.I want to hear more about your business trip.He's opening a guitar institute...so some fucker'll teach him to play 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Pit, when you visit Paris, have a conversation with a Frenchman about Anglo-French relations; I think he would love to hear what you say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 (edited) 'if you lot just learned to talk English you could join us!' Edited October 29, 2014 by Lennie Godber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlisOld Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Snake is gonna have a rude awakening when he finds out what tariffs are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Snake is gonna have a rude awakening when he finds out what tariffs are.Shhh. Don't crush his dreams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 What's a tariff!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I'm going for £65 return on Eurostar, definitely cheapest way to get to Paris from London, keep an eye on the site for sales, cheapest this year was £60.If you couchsurf you can crash on someone's couch for a night or two, AirBNB has places you can stay for around £15 a night (I'm staying at one really close to Zenith for £20 a night for the Slash gig in a couple of weeks).Love Paris, but there's lots of places to see in France, too. Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bayonne, lots of lovely little villages (called Les Plus Beaux Villages de France), been meaning to check out Lyon for a while. One of my favourite places in Paris is Le Marais, Jewish district with a lot of great patisseries and falafel places. Of course, Montmartre is beautiful. Cemeteries like the famous Pere-Lachaise are huge, always blown away when I see these huge cemeteries in Paris and Berlin and Buenos Aires, with those huge mausoleums and statues and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Couchsurf? Is there not a danger you will get bummed up the arse though?My favourite place in Paris is Las Invalides which houses the national army museum and Napoleon's tomb. Here is, this stunning baroque building built by Louis XIV in the 17th century to house France's military veterans:And here is Napoleon's tomb,Hitler looking down on it in 1940, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I don't think that's Snake-Pit's cup of tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 (edited) Well there are also a lot of brothers in Paris, mostly migrants from Senegal etc. Pit might make some friends. Edited October 29, 2014 by DieselDaisy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlisOld Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Like, I bet there's weed and chicks you can make out with. And weed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I like the idea of Snake Pit getting some culture. I say he gets high and goes to the Louvre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Work on your French because they aren't ver accommodating in Paris. If you want a coffee within 30 mins go to Starbucks/McDonald's. I like BN biscuits though. Moulin Rouge book in advance. Crazy Horse is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Be warned, if you ask "Do you speak English?" they WILL reply "Yes, do you speak French?"This is actually the reason the 100 years war started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhead74 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Watch the film Breathless...its basically all like that.*looooooooong sigh* I fucking love that film. Jean Seberg has been a style icon for me for a long long time (can you tell? ). Most people assume I was channeling Mia Farrow with my haircut but it was Jean Seberg all the way. "New York Herald Tribuuuuuuune!!!" Snake! Watch that film! It's so Parisienne!!!! Except when you're there everything is in colour. It's a beautiful city, easily the most beautiful in the world. If you like art: it has the best art in the world. If you like food: it has the best food in the world. If you like fashion: it has the best fashion in the world. It's just fucking awesome!!!!! But it's not cheap. Although if you don't mind seedy hotel rooms and can happily live on cheese, baguettes and wine........you'll have a ball for next to nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhead74 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Work on your French because they aren't ver accommodating in Paris. If you want a coffee within 30 mins go to Starbucks/McDonald's. I like BN biscuits though. Moulin Rouge book in advance. Crazy Horse is better.If you use an atrocious accent when attempting to speak French they will often convert to the English they claim not to know because they can't bare to hear their own language butchered. And if you speak French with a reasonable accent and appear to have some capacity for their language.....be prepared to never ever hear a single word of English uttered from their mouths. Which means you might ask a question correctly but will probably have next to no chance of understanding the response you get. Better to just ask: "Arvay voo oon shombra por der person, si voo play?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhead74 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I want to go..................I'm thinking, buy French stuff in France and take them with me for my business trip to America that I want to do.But really, I want to see Paris.Been hanging out with the French heads this week, On Monday, my friend and her friend, my friend is from Montinique and her parents live in Paris, and her friend who's parents are from Ivory Coast and live in Paris, who I met, and she was going to Paris on Tuesday to see them and she was taking her son.... Anyway, I heard from that that it was cheaper to take the coach down, and the cheapest before I found out about that was £80 rtn on Eurostar, and I think flying there is like £100/£120/£140 rtn... - Even if you find a budget airline that'll fy you anywhere for £17.99 or something, never include the hefty flight tax thing for taking off from a UK airport, like £60...Has anyone ever been?What's it like?I first want to go to Paris, then if ever I go back, I'd like to see other places in France; but first Paris.I once turned down a trip to go shopping in France around our birthday with this girl because it wasn't Paris, in 2010.I love Paris, but I actually think the best part of France is the south. It's fucking incredible and the closest I would define as heaven and/or paradise on earth. The areas of Provence and the Côte d'Azur are just to die for. Avignon, Aix en Provence, Antibes, Grasse, Menton, St Paul de Vence, Eze, Nimes, Arles, Cassis, Gordes, Nice, Rousillon.......so many cities, towns and villages are just stunning and a great area to 'waste' some time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Work on your French because they aren't ver accommodating in Paris. If you want a coffee within 30 mins go to Starbucks/McDonald's. I like BN biscuits though. Moulin Rouge book in advance. Crazy Horse is better.If you use an atrocious accent when attempting to speak French they will often convert to the English they claim not to know because they can't bare to hear their own language butchered. And if you speak French with a reasonable accent and appear to have some capacity for their language.....be prepared to never ever hear a single word of English uttered from their mouths. Which means you might ask a question correctly but will probably have next to no chance of understanding the response you get. Better to just ask: "Arvay voo oon shombra por der person, si voo play?" They won't switch to English, depends on which tabac you stumbled into I guess. They hate tourists understandably. So I try to wear my USA flag t shirt exclusively. Lafayette department store cafeteria is rocking opposite the opera house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhead74 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Work on your French because they aren't ver accommodating in Paris. If you want a coffee within 30 mins go to Starbucks/McDonald's. I like BN biscuits though. Moulin Rouge book in advance. Crazy Horse is better.If you use an atrocious accent when attempting to speak French they will often convert to the English they claim not to know because they can't bare to hear their own language butchered. And if you speak French with a reasonable accent and appear to have some capacity for their language.....be prepared to never ever hear a single word of English uttered from their mouths. Which means you might ask a question correctly but will probably have next to no chance of understanding the response you get. Better to just ask: "Arvay voo oon shombra por der person, si voo play?" They won't switch to English, depends on which tabac you stumbled into I guess. They hate tourists understandably. So I try to wear my USA flag t shirt exclusively. Lafayette department store cafeteria is rocking opposite the opera house.I guess we stumbled upon some young Frenchies who wanted to practice their English because we found it worked on a couple of occasions. Mainly in fashion stores though (they must have been desperate for sales), not on transportation or in restaurants. In a restaurant though we knew enough to say what we wanted without needing a reply or a conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Do you speak French? Fluently? No? Then don't go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I'm a french guy, if you have questions about us, please ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 What's the best rock club in Paris? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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