Coming back to Paris

Paris is still my favorite city. Okay, it’s busy, dirty, people are mean and walk fast. But come on, that’s Paris.

I’ve forgotten a bunch of details while I was away.

  • Everybody speaks French. There’s no way I can whisper secret stuff to Manu about whatever.
  • The light to cross the street isn’t a fat white light guy but a skinny green one.
  • In an ATM, you don’t swipe your card, you leave it for a long time.
  • In an ATM, you get many colorful euros of different sizes.
  • There’s dog shit everywhere. I’m shocked of people not using doggy bags. I have to look where I walk on the sidewalk.
  • About sidewalks, there are tiny. And there’s this odd habit of threatening people to take all the space while walking super fast.
  • About sidewalks (again), I love having a coffee outside, with a waiter who comes directly to the table. The weather was awesome and mild, so it was even better.
  • Bottles of orange juice are small. Street are small, cars, stairs, tables in restaurant: everything is small. But small is cute.
  • The street names are cute too: la promenade Maurice Carême, le quai des Fleurs, rue des Quatre-Fils, rue Quincampoix, etc. Pure cuteness and streetstyle poetry.
  • I forgot that bar PMU existed. How to explain that? A bar where people come to bet for horses races. That’s a big thing.
  • Bakeries are everywhere. Two or three a block. Bread is good, delicious even. Not in every bakery. But still.
  • Wifi is rare. That’s annoying.
  • Guys whistle to girls in the street. Most annoying habit ever, though when I left for the US I thought that no one liked me. 
  • I went to a bar which was an old abbey from the 13th century. Only in Paris.
  • Waiters are not mean, they work fast, and I love it.
  • In restaurants, there’s no hostess and there’s not tip (service is included). That makes things easier.
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Rédactrice, grande organisatrice et réseau socialite du Blog de Mathilde. Quand je ne suis pas devant un écran, j'organise des visites guidées de Boston, là où j'ai fondé ma petite entreprise Boston le nez en l'air. Je suis aussi auteure de nombreux guides de voyages, de livres de yoga et de jeux chez des éditeurs français. Suivez-moi sur Instagram, Facebook ou Pinterest.

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