Anybody from France/Paris, been to paris? Planning to have a vacation in Paris late in March this year, and I'm looking for a modest hotel room at a reasonable price for 2/3 nights. Any suggestions for places to look around, sight-seeing are welcome. I'll be carrying my US driving license, so may rent a car for those days. Please help!

Thanks in advance!
Magdadela

Enough said already but I might add a few lines to the resume of Paris attractions.

-Did someone mention about canal cruise on the river? It will be worth it.

-Best months: May - August.

-Cars? No I won't hire a car if I were you. It's just like London with its labyrinthine web of streets - boulevards rather and the traffic is just horrendous. So, take bus or the Metro - best means to get around places.

If you happened to be a literary/arts loving type, why not explore the city's glittering literary history? Far too many names: Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzerald AND Ernest Hemingway, the Lost Generation's foremost luminary - who else!

If you've got time, try the cafes on the boulevard Montparnasse, Hemingway's fav eat-out place. There's then Cafe de Flore on the boulevard St-Germaine where some god called Sartre discussed his weird existentialist rubbish (:-) with his 'not-so-godly' friends and ehh..also funnily found time playing footsie with his life-long companion and muse Simone de Beauvoir. Cheeky git eh! :-)

Read Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast'
Also if you have got time, watch a Woody Allen film - 'Everyone Says I Love You'

Paris is most definitely the most romantic of all cities - it has that rare charm. Gertrude Stein had apparently said: America is my country but Paris is my hometown. Like the big old Hemingway would agree, Paris is doubtless a big 'moveable feast' - it'll forever remain with you. Some fond memories. Oh well.

Good luck with your trip

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Captain,
Billions of bilious blue blistering [bloody] barnacles.. :-)

Long time no see!

Most romantic city re? I would say one of the most commercilized city these days. Unless you manipulate your own mind and stand infront of the tower saying ahhhhhhh how romantic hehe.

Florence is probably one of the most gorgeous cities on the planet. Small, Sweet and relaxed people...

Well, I have been to Florence, have I? So, it's got to be the one for me at least.

As for the most romantic landscape, Tuscany head and shoulders tops the list. Blame it all on Puccini, Andrea Bocelli, and all those Bertulucci films! :-)

Hope all is well with you. Hey do you know what M'Rose's upto doing these days - her conspicuous absence makes my heart grow fonder re kya.. If I were to say this to Nirman, I will end up having a few dozen of tutulkas firmly stamped on to my poor head with his bursts of verbal fireballs.. So, I'd better not dare! :-) Where is he too? Or is he also sporting some fancy name? Gentlemaninblack.. howabouthat eh!

Take care.

""I have been to Florence""

to read:

'I haven't been to Florence'

A bad case of dyslexic spells that I'm having to nurse, I am afraid!

Heheh Mr Sneaky... no comments cause the answers are in your head... :)

So, the 'answer is, ladyinred, blowing in the head' eh.. Blimey.. now I know why they have big heads, small, flat, conical, whingeing, snivelling heads. But why is mine alway sore? Now I know why. Because one elusive kanyaa in raato saari from the Third Reich stole all my Cetamol tablets the other day, innit? :) That's why!

Hey, I had better stop yapping about or the beefy 'gentlemaninblack' will come and bang me 'sore head' on to the wall. Oh my. :-)