Paris

[Fisherking]

I was too young to remember anything from when I went, so I can't make a suggestion. Although I do agree with Frags, a place like Paris has enough going on for it to be nice to just go for a walk and discover something unexpected.

Just don’t get mugged!

[Strike For The South]

Overated

[Peasant Phill]

Just don’t get mugged!

I've walked around in Paris at night more than once and I certainly wouldn't call it unsafe.
The only time I've seen violence was when one tranny fought with another tranny but you could call that entertainment.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Much of the splendour of Paris is hidden.


The countless hôtels. Tucked away behind high walls, inconspicuous servants quarters facing the street, behind which a courtyard, then the mansion itself, and then a garden.

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All of them are right in the city, mostly invisble from the public street. Most are not publicly accessible. Hence it is a sport to try and get to see them all one way or another.


Some of the oldest and finest are located in the Marais. Once the most prestigious area. Then slowly turned into a slum by the 19th century, as wealthy Parisians moved to the newer western areas. When the Marais was gentrified in the 1960s, many hôtels were restored and turned into museums.

The other areas are the 7th, with some of the very largest hôtels, most serve to house institutes of the French state. Very difficult to get in, unless you have some connections and are good at bluffing.

The hôtels in the first and eight are mostly embassies. They are also some of the most prestigious hôtels, including the mothership of them all, the Élysée. Virtually impossible to visit, unless one gets invited to a party or event, which, fortunately, an embassy is supposed to have often because its very task is to 'network' in the host country.
The splendour of many of these embassies helps to explain why Paris is so sought after by people employed in the diplomatic corps, why Paris is still a hub of international diplomacy. They all want to live the dream, are susceptible to the glamour, the prestige. Cultural soft power at its finest.

[drone]

Don't forget to take in a riot while you are there.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Paris is bigger than Belgium. The tourists see the centre of the city itself, this is only a small part of the urban area. Not that most of it is altogether very interesting, but it is there:

[Moros]

I haven't been to le Musee de Quai Branly yet. I believe museums are free for students residing in the EU, so that might not be a bad idea.

For the rest sadly I've seen most of it already. Of course I didn't see everything in the Louvre or the likes, but I don't want to bore her to death with factoids like why those reliefs on the Egyptian tomb are raised and the others are sunken reliefs. Let alone when I bump into something Arabian. I think she's more than pleased by seeing three paintings by painters who's name she thinks she might have heard once or twice. And the Mona Lisa of course.

[Fragony]

Louvre area is boring, hop the metro to Saint Michelle. It's a maze of old small streets full of awesome, can easily spend a day there roaming around. There really is plenty to see everywhere you go, the only problem in Paris is a total lack of nightlife as we have in nl and be, nothing to do after 10 but returning to your hotel, but you should be too tired to do anything else anyway