Leaving for Paris in a bit.  Anyone want to share a favorite site or a "must
see"?  Anyone you want me to say Hello to?  I go t a great list of local
restaurants from rec.travel on the net.  If anyone else is going, Ill share.

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 I have a French tour guide that I'll loan you, on the condition that I
get it back. It's a few years old, but I suspect that most of the good stuff
like the Louve and Notre Dame are still in the place that the old guide
says they are in.
 The guide also has a few tours already mapped out depending on how long
you're staying and how much money you have to spend. I should also ponit
er point out that there is a HUGE list of restaurants and phone numbers
in case you need reservations. Give me a call if you need to borrow it.

Paris....ahhh. I had to stay there, once. I was passing through and swung
by the Louvre, and just coincidentally the coil on my motorbike chose
to go "PFFT!" right there. Rats. Too late to hit the parts shops, so
I found a pension and checked in. I was living in the Netherlands at
the time, so spoke some Dutch, but no French. Turns out the conceirge
was Flemish, so I checked in in Dutch (in Paris....). Then a Chinese
showed up, who spoke no French (or Dutch) but a little English. So I
served as the translator from Chinese English to Dutch, and vica versa,
...in Paris. There is something about travelling that is very......
stimulating. Have a great trip, Audrey! Visit Notre Dame, walk along
the Seine (if the water is down), go up the Eiffel Tower, stroll in
the Bois Bouloigne, and say hello to the Gare de Sud for me (that's
a different story).

Thanks Jim, I may well call and borrow your book.  On the other hand, I
have been browsing Barnes and Nobles and Websters and have been reading
alot of the most current travel guides on Paris for the past month.  I have
also been listening to French tapes as I drive to and from my offices.  Je
parle francais tres mal mais c'est suffit.  J"espere.  Anyway, thanks for
the offer.  Rane, tell us the story about the Gare du Sud.  I'd love to hear

read it.  My hotel will be right across the Seine from Notre Dame and I
not only plan to visit, I plan to hear an organ concert there Sunday night.
I just can't wait.  Paris calls to me like a beacon, especially all of
those wonderful restaurants you mentioned Jim.  I will sample as many as I
can.  I got my hotel from "Sleep Cheap in Paris" which I would be glad to
lend to anyone who is planning on going.

I had a wonderful time in Paris a couple of years ago.  We stayed at the
Hotel California, if you can believe it.  It's on the Left Bank, not 
far from the Notre Dame and the Sorbonne.  Another place you might
want to see is Versailles.  It's an easy train ride from Paris.

There are too many museums to see in Paris, unless you're going to be
there for at least a month.  I regretted not getting to the Picasso
Museum, for example.

The French pastries are great.  When I have more time, I'll tell you
my pastry story.

 This particular guide is Hauchettes (?) 1987 guide that I procured from
Afterwords because I wanted to learn about the French culture and history.
3.95 isn't a bad price to pay for a list of all the rulers of France plus
the phone numbers of the best restaurants in Lyons and Nice. I have similar
guides of Portugul, Spain, Italy, Brazil and a few other places.

Well, if you insist (shy grin }->): I called it the Gare de Sud story
as that is where my visit ended, when I got on the Orient Express.
But that visit started when Der Bremen disembarked me in Cherbourg
and I took the boat train to Paris to make the train connection. Well,
it was my first visit to Europe, and there was this German girl I
had met on the boat, and we had the whole day in Paris, and it was
Spring....(sorry, I was getting distracted ;->), so we visited lots
of places. The visit to Notre Dame was the most memorable. We found
ourselves in great crowds of tourists, which we had to push our way
through. The first big group was German, so we spoke English; the
next big group was American, so we spoke German. We laughed all day.
And it ended like in the movies, at the Gare de Sud.

I have been as far as the UK, but never to the continent.
There is some chance that I will go to Paris this spring too, though
in my case it would be on business. I am thinking of adding a week
of vacation onto the trip and bringing my wife. I wish my trip were
as definite as headdoc's. I could really look forward to this!

I would love to see that list of Restaurants, too. Thanks.

When you're ready to go, email me and Ill mail it to you.  The list is too
(It could be all the beautiful people, the incredible buildings (inside and
out, the sense of history, or all the French Pastries I eat, however. . .)
I can well understand meeting someone and falling in love for a day, or a
week.  This time, because it will still be coolish, I am planning to see
contemplating taking the bullet train to Aix-en Provence, but I think I can
find enough within the city to keep me busy.  I just hope the weather is
better than ours.

I can't believe how garbled that last response was.  There is alot of noise
today but so many of my lines were deleted (and not by me.)  To srw, I meant to
say, the list is too long to email so I'll be glad to snail mail it to you when
you're ready.  The seond line, I was trying to talk about how romantic I feel
when Im in Paris.  Romantic and young.  And lastly, because it may be cool and
rainy, I plan to do inside things.  Last time I was there, it was spring and I
did mostly outdoor things like the Eiffel Tower and walks along the Seine, and
outdoor cafes, etc.

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#10 reminded me that we had this discussion going. Sadly my spring trip
to Europe was cancelled. Maybe I'll be able to go in the fall.

Well, in anticipation, I photocopied that list of restaurants and I will have
it when you're ready to go.  I even updated it since my February trip. Sorry
about your plans falling through.

Thanks, Audrey.

I know this discussion seems to have ended a while ago, but I am going to
Paris this August for a whole month and also need information about places
to go and things to do.  Please tell me anything you found that is a "must see"
or that you think is good. Thanx, Audrey(Or whoever else can respond.)

The discussion is never ended. . just temporarily deferred.  I will be glad to
share some of my most recent Paris pleasures with you, but I would like to do
so later in the week when I have more time.  And I will probably email to you. 
If you dont hear from me by Monday, jog my memory with an email note. I can
share some great restaurants and places to walk.

That would be great, I'm looking forward to your reply :)

Me too, even though I have no idea when I'll be going at his point.

So where are the Paris updates???  :-)

My Feb trip to Paris seems so long ago.  I never wrote about it here because
I came home to find that my mother had just died.  That took the wind out
of my sails, so to speak and it was difficult to talk about or think about
our trip.  Now, six months later, of course I can talk about it much more
easily.  One of the most wonderful things was walking along the Seine at
night with the snow falling and going over to walk the streets of Isle St.
Louis in the snow.  Another marvelous thing was Paris when it was not
crowded with tourists (like us).  Even the people were nicer in the shops
and the restaurants.  We ate incredible food, the likes of which we had never
experienced because this time we could eat in some fine places (most of
which were supplied to us by that lady from Paris we met through e-mail)

Sorry about your mother. Thanks for the Paris info.
My work-financed trip to Paris is scrapped. I have longer-range plans
to visit on my own nickel. I should have enough nickels by 1997.

Audrey, I'm sorry to hear about your Mother, too!  I do hope that
as time goes on, you'll recall more and more fond memories [of the trip
and of course, of your mother, too!]
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