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Things to remember about my 1st trip to Paris
- Cheating first class on the train
-We couldn't find any seats in 2nd class, so Annie and I sat in 1st,
enjoying comfort, silence, and a reasonable air temperature.
Jared had grabbed the only seat left in the prior car, so he missed
out. The plan was to speak only english on the train, just in
case somebody came to check tickets (which they didn't), because lets
face it, a confused foreigner is as pathetic as it gets.
- First metro ride over the seine, in the dark, with that Berlin song stuck in my head. Beautiful.
- Creepy hostel where we spent the first night -somewhere near Place de Clichy. A brief illustration: sketchy stains on the blankets, a bed that sloped so insanely that annie and i
couldn't help but keep rolling down into the center all night, a 24h (midnight) curfew, and a pillow that enabled us to get only four hours of sleep. Deff not worth the 20€ each.
"> - The waiter at the Italian resteraunt who showed us a cool cup trick
- First walk alone in Paris The first morning.
- Opera de Paris (www.operadeparis.fr)
- The 40 year-old man who hit on me and kept embracing me tightly and trying to kiss me or get me to go have café with him at 7h, and whose breath already smelled of alcohol.
- My first café and croissant in a real french café (not with the drunk man)
- Crazy street cleaners
- Le Cathédral Le Trinité
- Guitar Heaven Road -On the way to the other hostel. Next time I'll count how many
guitar stores were on this little tiny road, but it was at least AT
LEAST 20
- Woodstock Hotel -Home away from home, the cutest little place you've ever seen in
your life, with the friendliest and comfiest atmosphere you've
ever seen. Only 18€ a night, too, so I didn't waste that much when I
ended up not coming in early enough to ever sleep
- Montmartre -Many many steps, but a beautiful view to make up for it. And at the top was a man playing the harp so beautifully that I should have just stayed there forever.
- Scamming scammers -So these guys have this amazing scam going on, where there will be anywhere from 3 to 5 african men standing at every entrance to montmartre. When you try to walk by, one will stop you just long enough to slip some string around your finger, and then he'll start making a beautiful little bracelet. They also all speak wonderful english, if not other languages, as well. Then they tell you to make a wish, and tie the bracelet around your wrist and ask for 20€ or at least 10. I had 3 and change. I gave the first man 3€50, and then ran into Jared and Annie, who had just come down from the top. They'd been hit hard. Jared had given the man 3€, but Annie had choked and given the man a 20. She was so disgusted that she threw her bracelet away. So I guess I got them back, because the next man who stopped me told me he didn't need money. I told him I had none, but he didn't believe me until I pulled out my empty wallet and showed it to him, giving him my last 20 cents. On the way down, I got stopped again, but this time I made it very clear that I had no money at all. So he made me one as a gift, for which I only had to let him flirt with me. I didn't let him tie it around my wrist, though, because I wanna send it to Jamie, so she can have a wish. So anyhoo, I feel that I got the scammers back by getting free goods, and in the future, I'll be carrying around an empty wallet in addition to my regular one, so I can pretend I have no money when I get caught in these things.
- Produce market -Most fun ever. I bought stuff to make sandwiches, just because I wanted to be a part of this insane local market. There were so so many stalls all squeezed together, and people yelling out their prices and hundreds of people doing their grocery shopping for the week. It was so much fun.
- Oliver
- Le Tour Eiffel
- The most amazing meal of my life
- Crème Broulee
- Gothing out Annie and Jared
- Le Bal des Vampires
- Antoine
- First ever all-nighter
- Interdit Take-Away
- La Jaconde
- Le louvre... more but class now ta