When you go to Paris you are overwhelmed with all the things there that they have to offer! The sites of Paris are unbelievable. Seeing the Eiffel Tower is breathtaking and taking the water taxis to different place is neat cause you get a tour will going to another location. The nice cafes and shops they have there are a lot different from the ones in America. The foods they eat are so amazing! It’s unlike anything to will eat here. It is so good and well presented that it makes to want to come back for more. The museums and sites they also have to offer their are so beautiful! The details and work they put into the building in Paris are unbelievable and tells story about the history there. It’s something you truly have to see for yourself. When I went there I saved money when I went their cause of all the little stores they have to go to for cheap food and the museums are not really expensive. If I were to go back to Paris I would make sure it was for a longer period of time so I can experience everything Paris has to offer.
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Paris is a beautiful city. First do not try to speak French unless you speak it well. English is spoken just about everywhere. To get around the city of Paris, you should take the Metro. This is a subway and you can get around most of Paris this way. The subways are safe and clean. Driving a rental car in Paris will prove expensive and difficult. Besides friendly French people on the Metro might give you tips on what and when to see something.
As for atypical sites in Paris, there are quite a few. Parc Andre Citroen is a good place to take children. There is a fountain in this park where the locals take their kids for bathing suit fun. The is located near a Metro stop. The park features modern architecture elements such as benches, pools and waterfalls.
Museums are plentiful in Paris. Of course there are the large and crowed ones. Focus on the smaller less well known museums. One such museum is the Musee Marmottan du Claude Monet. This museum houses Monet’s private collection donated by his son. Objects include smaller canvases, sketchbooks, renderings and even letters to his close friends. The museum includes works by other artist as well.
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There’s no better way to start a day in Paris than by wandering up the street for a good pastry. My favorite morning in Paris involved consulting a map and a local guidebook to scout out the nearest bakery. I took a 20 minute walk along narrow streets, past Parisians walking dogs, smoking morning cigarettes, and settling around tiny round tables at sidewalk cafes for the morning’s coffee over a copy of Le Monde. At the bakery, I chose a few miniature chocolate croissants and then picked up a napoleon, or what the French call a mille-feuille, literally “a thousand sheets” for the scores of paper-thin pastry dough that make up the fluffy treat. The cashier packed the pastry neatly into a tissue-paper lined box and handed it over delicately, as though afraid too she might shatter the treasure. I began to walk back to the apartment where I was staying, but saw an inviting park bench and decided to eat there. The layers of the mille-feuille were covered in powdered sugar and soon, so were my pants, shirt, shoes, and even my hair was speckled from the cloud of sugar dust. Passing Parisians watched in horror, but I didn’t care. It was the sweetest, freshest napoleon I’d ever had.
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