Hi Tris:
Your comments reminded me of an old Steve Martin line; "Paris-nice place,
but those French have a different word for everything." Oh and you left out
youth and the young.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tris Schuler" <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:48 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Photo suggestions for Paris?
> At 03:30 PM 2/6/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Donald, I say without shame that your wonderful pictures and text brought
> >tears to my eyes as I experience once again missing being in one of my
> >favorite cities.
>
> Yeah, but as they say in Normandy (according to a guy I had in my cab from
> Normandy) "Too bad it's wasted on the Parisians." (Haven't we heard that
> same line about Ireland from the English? <g>)
>
> About August in Paris: don't! It's hot and humid that time of year,
> positively the worst weather I've ever experienced in Europe. A good half
> of the shops are literally boarded up as anyone who can get out of town
has
> down so--and big surprise!
>
> Otherwise it's a great place to be. So much beauty, and what an
interesting
> culture at its core. Need to speak some French, though, to get along.
> Hardly anyone speaks English--or for that matter wants to, it seems.
>
> Tris
>
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