Overall

Paris a dead, much hyped about city that is, in my opinion, in a more desperate need for the Olympics than London. Shops in the city centre were mostly closed or extremely quiet with the only thing going for the place being the fine architecture that resonate of days gone by without the surge of dynamism, which befits that of a great city. Food is great if you're not a vegetarian like myself, who ended up paying more for eating salads than a companion of mine who was tucking into alcohol laced, meat laden three course meals (I don’t drink either-makes you wonder what the hell I'm doing in France!) Having said that the pastries were to die for and Parisians were not as nasty as some people make them out to be. There is definitely an air of romance in Paris especially as the sun sets. However it does get nauseating seeing every other couple canoodling away like a really bad Big Brother episode. All in all I would not rush to Paris again and it is a real shame that the Eurostar goes to Paris instead of Amsterdam and that Disneyland is near Paris as opposed to somewhere else on the continent.

21 June 2005 | A Yahoo! User

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