P_M's Paris trip report: the good, the unexpected, the voice inside my head, and "Ugly Naked Guy."
Jan 25th, 2005, 03:37 PM
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This is the funniest thing I have read for quite a while! LOL! "Yes folks, there was a full moon out every night while I was in Paris."
Glad you had a great trip full of memorable experiences.
I am looking forward to my first trip to Paris next summer so much, I can hardly bare it.
This is the funniest thing I have read for quite a while! LOL! "Yes folks, there was a full moon out every night while I was in Paris."
Glad you had a great trip full of memorable experiences.
I am looking forward to my first trip to Paris next summer so much, I can hardly bare it.
Jan 25th, 2005, 03:41 PM
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Very much enjoyed reading your trip report! Having visited Paris both by myself and with family, I know exactly how you felt walking alone that night.
Sometimes, you need quiet around you to fully absorb the myriad of impressions Paris offers, a few hours of solitude in which to savor the elation found only in undistracted discovery.
Yes, there's the tiny sting of conditioned regret that so and so isn't there with you to share the experience, but it's quickly remedied by taking a deep, deep breath and triumphantly claiming that moment, that magical bit of Paris, for... yourself.
Sometimes, you need quiet around you to fully absorb the myriad of impressions Paris offers, a few hours of solitude in which to savor the elation found only in undistracted discovery.
Yes, there's the tiny sting of conditioned regret that so and so isn't there with you to share the experience, but it's quickly remedied by taking a deep, deep breath and triumphantly claiming that moment, that magical bit of Paris, for... yourself.
Jan 25th, 2005, 03:46 PM
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Oh my gosh!!!! LOL LOL!!!!! I could handle the full moon but the dark side had me scared!!!!! I came very close to being Ugly Naked Woman in Paris..My widow had the "lovely" view of the air shaft and of course I could look right out at rooms at the side of me and across from me, and I actually really didn't realize it at first and only had my shear curtain drawn, not the curtain underneath..do you think someone went home and put me in their trip report! Oh no!!!!!!
Jan 25th, 2005, 06:25 PM
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Thank you all for your nice and funny replies!! I'm so glad you enjoyed my report. I really wasn't sure about including Ugly Naked Guy, so I tried to keep it clean enough to please the Fodor's censors. Let's hope they don't axe it.... 
Jan 25th, 2005, 06:49 PM
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What a delightful report! I just wish my "inner voices" were as accurate as yours.
Re Naked Guy, in the mid-60s when I was in Paris a friend and I were walking alongside the Parc Monsouris and what I thought was a statue at first followed us along the fence. I reported it to a policeman I saw, but he thought we were just hysterical Americans.
Re Naked Guy, in the mid-60s when I was in Paris a friend and I were walking alongside the Parc Monsouris and what I thought was a statue at first followed us along the fence. I reported it to a policeman I saw, but he thought we were just hysterical Americans.
Jan 25th, 2005, 07:08 PM
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American Airlines and most other non Air FRance planes usually fly out of Terminal 1. Most likely the taxi driver had no idea of the change, which to some degree is the result of the partial collapse of the outer terminal 2-F. A bit of restructuring of the airlines has occurred. If you want a real treat, try flying Icelandair out of Charles de Gaulle airport. We showed up the requisite three hours ahead. Waited two and three quarters hours, and still, NOWHERE IN TERMINAL 1 was there an Icelandair desk open, nor was there anything with Icelandair printed on it anywhere. Eventually.......Icelandair showed up, late, pulled down the other airlines signs over a desk, and put theirs up. They have absolutely no presence at the airport, due to their minimal routes. The people at the Icelandair desk were grumpy, confused and could not make the machines work to check in the people waiting. The plane left one and a half hour late. In Iceland, we waited another hour on the plane while they looked for someone that had checked bags but was not in the seat next to my husband and I. One hour later, they "found" the person, sitting on the lap of her parents in the back of the plane. She was Icelandic. I had read that Icelandair would take care of their citizens, but did not believe that such a delay would have occurred. It did. Live and learn. Next time, Air FRAnce again, and Terminal 2. End of story.
Jan 25th, 2005, 07:55 PM
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Hi PM, wonderful report. And how very nice you and your stepmom are such great friends. My stepdaughter and I are also. It does happen sometimes!
BTW, did you have to pay for a "view" room in that Paris hotel? Just wondering
BTW, did you have to pay for a "view" room in that Paris hotel? Just wondering
Jan 25th, 2005, 09:24 PM
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P_M, It sounds as though you had a wonderful trip. There have been so many great trip reports from Paris this week, it only increases my desire to return!
Croque Madame, I loved what you said. I hope I find many such moments on my solo trip to Italy in Sept.
Croque Madame, I loved what you said. I hope I find many such moments on my solo trip to Italy in Sept.
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Jan 26th, 2005, 06:19 AM
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Great report! Makes me even more excited to be leaving for Paris next week!
You may not have had a view of the Eiffel Tower but at least Ugly Naked Guy didn't put on a twinkling light show every hour!
You may not have had a view of the Eiffel Tower but at least Ugly Naked Guy didn't put on a twinkling light show every hour!
Jan 26th, 2005, 06:37 AM
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My compliments...a delightful report that's also filled with useful information. It should serve a model for other reports. (Thanks for not including a minute-by-minute rehash of unnecessary minutia!)
