Paris! City of OH MY GOD I DON'T CARE.
The " #confessyourunpopularopinion" Twitter fad is well-timed for me, because I'm in the research-heavy phase of planning a trip to London and Paris later this year for me and Andy, and my unpopular opinion is that I've never given much of a shit about Paris as a place to visit. I kind of hated Amelie, I don't really care for cathedrals, palaces,
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1. eating great cheap baguette w/ cheap table wine on the 5th floor patio of the AirBNB place we were at
2. Centre Pompidou is great if you dig contemporary art, and has some interesting street performer stuff going on about it
3. musee de l'erotisme might have that "museum of surgical science" vibe, if a bit more campy
The scale of some of the art in the Louvre was also jaw-dropping; the frames were huge, and the scale was monumental.
I know what you mean about places being overrated etc, but you can get jaded about almost anything if you're not careful.
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Where did you stay?
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https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/34303
It might be nostalgia-tinted glasses and a combination of the right time of year and just digging making cheap dinners (frankly I think we weren't feeling gourmet enough to take on the restaurants, but the cheap wine and bread was really good and hard to match over here) but picnicking up on that patio, above the worst of the street noise w/ pretty looking buildings across the way, maybe reviewing the day's photos on an ipad, that's one of my favorite memories of the whole Paris-Germany-London jaunt we took.
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Huh... I couldn't find it via the map search there (I remembered it was around the corner from the hyper-scenic "Le Pure Cafe") but I dug up some old records to find:
(if you figure out the trivial URL pattern for looking at a particular place on their site, it's rooms slash 34303 , Barbara is the contact)
It might be nostalgia-tinted glasses and a combination of the right time of year and just digging making cheap dinners (frankly I think we weren't feeling gourmet enough to take on the restaurants, but the cheap wine and bread was really good and hard to match over here) but picnicking up on that patio, above the worst of the street noise w/ pretty looking buildings across the way, maybe reviewing the day's photos on an ipad, that's one of my favorite memories of the whole Paris-Germany-London jaunt we took.
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