France Trip One

This is titled “Trip 1″ because from the moment I touched down at Charles De Gaulle airport, on a rainy morning in Paris, I knew it would not be my last trip.

Paris is beautiful! Hands down. The city is nicely arrayed into 20 arrondisements which are like neighborhoods in the United States. Except arrondisements don’t really mean much if you’re there because most people get around on the metro (subway). Paris has got to have the best public transportation of any big city I’ve been to. I did not even get to try the buses as I was on the metro train -or walking- the entire time I was there but it was so easy and efficient to use. Everywhere you need to get to is close to a train station. You can buy tickets for one trip, the entire day, or an entire week.  You can probably buy tickets for longer periods of time if you live there but I didn’t delve that deep. 

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