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WWI: Paris has no stores

Skrevet av Havok den 27 juni 2008 klokken 19:03

Let me just start by saying that Paris is huge. I visited the Louvre today and yes, it was huge as well. I was at the Louvre for about an hour before I decided I wanted to see more of Paris.

The thing is, at that point I was starting to become hungry and thirsty so finding something to eat seemed like a good idea. But, here comes the problem.. places to eat as in restaurants and cafés not a problem. Kiosk and actual stores? Where are they.. I've walked all over the place, and nothing. Ended up going to a Sushi place called Holly Sushi, worst Sushi I've ever eaten, and I've eaten a lot. What's worse is that it was more expensive then it would have been in Norway. 20 euro not so well spent.

I managed to get to and from by the cunning use of the subway system. I also found out there is a small mall right next to the hotel. Now I'm getting ready for dinner with Blizzard down in the hotel restaurant, had a nice hot bath and currently playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift on my new red DS and watching Japanese TV. Just to give a little rundown of the channels on the TV, after going trough 60 channels I've found that most are french of course, but there are also english, japanese, indian and chinese. My favorite is currently JSTV and one of the indian ones that is currently showing a soap opera, complete with dancing.

Words/phrases you should know when going to france (a little french 101):
- Bonjour = Hello
- Pardon = Excuse me
- Merci = Thank you. You can also use Merci Beaucoup which basically means "Thank you very much!"
- Au revoir = Farewell
- Parlez-vous anglais? = Do you speak English?
- Sortie = Exit (Good to know if you want to find the exit from somewhere seeing as they don't use the word "Exit")

Using the few words like that really help it, they will see that you at least try. So saying Bonjour and continuing in english when you want to buy something is better then going "Hey, sap I wanna buy..." etc.

A word a saw a lot of down town in almost all the shops I passed, was "Soldes" which means "Sale". I seems that almost everything is on sale in France.

Anyway, gonna get ready now. I'll make a blog post when the dinner is done, if it doesn't last forever.

HQ