You mean as in, "Ahhhh, youth is wasted on the wrong people!" from _It's a
Wonderful Life"? <g>
The thing is Paris _is_ a beautiful city and the culture is amazingly rich
at its core, but sad to say the society does in certain quarters (and
especially within my experience around the environs of Paris) tend to be
somewhat Anglophobic. This has been attributed by some "experts" on the
subject as being due to factors like envy brought on by feelings of
inferiority stemming from such cultural-artifact issues as global language
acceptance, just for example, but I don't know.
What I do know is that in spite everything or nothing at all Paris is a
great city to walk around in with a camera, or without a camera as far as
that goes. There's so much to see and wonder at and about. I only wish the
little French I (tried to) learn in seventh grade had stuck more surely in
my feeble mind. I also know that you shouldn't do these things in August. <g>
As long as we're on it . . . I'd also very much like to one day travel
completely around the Mediterranean basin, then duck deep into the Balkans
for a week or two or three, zip up through the Ukraine, after which a quick
jog over to the Moscow district might be in order before hitting St.
Petersburg and then down through the Baltic States, with a quick stopover
in Germany, of course, before visiting Holland and the Benelux countries on
the final "dash" back to gay Paris . . . you get the idea.
(Say, if anyone on the list is planning such a junket I'd be happy to carry
your bags!)
Tris
>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
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