My trip to Paris was, for the most part, a waste.
I was fourteen years old and bored with everything, not least of all, traveling with my mother. I do have pictures somewhere … I don’t think I’m in any of them because what bored teeny-bopper wants to have their picture taken with their mom? What I do remember about the trip:
My very first croissant. And boy, was I in love.
My first bidet. No, I didn’t try it, because ewww!! (I was fourteen.)
Stairs.
Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower through the window of a tour bus.
Dog poop.
Stairs.
Crazy drivers.
Being driven to our hotel with a woman cab driver who had her German Shepard in the front seat with her.
Being the only one who knew how to speak French out of myself, my mom, and her friend who we were traveling with.
Did I mention stairs?
Were I to go now, as an adult, I’m positive I’d colossally appreciate it.
As for the stairs? I’ve been to Japan. It can’t be worse for stairs than that. Can it?
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January 16, 2019 at 12:35 pm
Oh, the dog poop, the dog poop! I didn’t see Sacre Coeur because STAIRS. I went to Paris as an adult in a tour group. My favorite part was when I stayed in Monmartre while everybody else climbed those STAIRS. Lunch at a cafe with wine, people watching, a little shopping. A movie poster for the American movie HOOK which was called, in French, “Le Capitain Crochet.”
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January 16, 2019 at 8:42 pm
See, being 14, I couldn’t even enjoy a glass of wine. Traveling SUCKS when you’re a teeny bopper. SUCKS, I tell you! 😉
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January 16, 2019 at 5:19 am
Went to Paris when I was about 13yrs.. yes lots of steps and stairs…. What about the toilets..yuk! How can such a supposedly cultural, chiche place have such crap public toilets? Yes I do love to visit France and Paris but a lot of the toilets are still horrible holes in the floor ? Why ?this is 2019! 💜💜💜
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January 16, 2019 at 8:47 pm
Haha! They have those in Japan too. Crazy!
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January 17, 2019 at 3:44 am
I hate those loos😝
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January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am
I went to Germany as a teenager. I appreciated it, but I was a strange teen. I do feel, looking back, that I didn’t appreciate it enough and missed out on more of the history of the country.
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January 16, 2019 at 8:49 pm
The history is the best part. 🙂
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January 15, 2019 at 10:31 pm
So much is wasted on the young 😛
That’s a good share.
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January 16, 2019 at 8:51 pm
Thank you. 🙂
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January 15, 2019 at 9:01 pm
haha the stairs! I think, looking at your Japan post, that the stairs in Lyon might rival them… We are lucjy because the apt we like to rent in Paris has a lift!
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January 16, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Ah, that was the other thing. Our hotel only had stairs. And of course we were on the top floor. 😛
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January 15, 2019 at 8:41 pm
Croissants are the bomb and then… there are stairs…Fun read. Thanks.
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January 15, 2019 at 8:18 pm
A fun post! Thanks for sharing! I’d love to go to France! 💙
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January 15, 2019 at 7:23 pm
Yes, croissants, but I don’t have to go all the way to Paris to get those. LOL
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January 15, 2019 at 7:31 pm
Ah, but are they as magnifique? Haha. 😀
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