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Paris is a full on experience. Even it’s subway system seems more complicated than that of other cities at first. The first day I was there it felt like everything was running in fast-time; but it was probably a cause de la sleep deprivation: I had to take a night bus to Dublin for my flight, meaning I missed a night’s sleep. I took a flight to Charleroi, Belgium, then a bus to the train station, then a train to Bruxelles, then the Thalys high speed train to Paris.

There is definately a romantic feel to the city, from the public displays of affection to the many couple centric activies; however I wouldn’t call it cliche - it’s not at all like the movies really. Something that I don’t think many people know is that there are a lot of Japaneese people in Paris, mostly tourists I think, as that’s where I keep seeing them. If they’re not the biggest tourist ethnic group then they might be close to it. What I like about them is that they’re not afraid to take a tripod with them to take photos - other people use a flash for instance to photograph Arc de Triumph at night - no point, crap photo. Some people also don’t get the message that you can’t use flash in some places, or maybe they don’t know how to turn it off, or maybe they’re the worst photographers ever. I don’t understand the mentality of peope that still carry around video cameras to film tourist attriaction, that stuff  never makes complelling viewing - no script.

Yesterday I checked out Notre Dam, Latin Quarter, Eiffel Tour, Champs Elesee  other things I can’t recall. Today I spent about 4 hours in the Louvre (not enough), seen the catacombes, the Graveyard place ( which I didn’t have the map for, so the only grave I got to see was dear old Osar Wilde and Georges Pompideau building (didn’t go in).

Tomorrow it’s on the Thalys again to Amsterdam.

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