The few times I've ever approached a concierge with a question about how to get someplace in a strange city, my wife is always in stitches before I reach the desk. She knows the answer I'll get. "Take a taxi." I'm not a very high power type guy and enjoy wondering back streets of strange cities and negotiating subway systems even in cites with languages I can't read and alphabets or symbols I can't decipher. Paris is a pretty easy city to get around in by bus or subway for anyone who knows the latin alphabet. It's not Shanghai or Tokyo. Do you assume your clients want a taxi?
Do you ever recommend public transportation
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Bux
, Feb 04 2003 02:04 PM
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Bux
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Posted 04 February 2003 - 02:04 PM
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fresh_a
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Posted 05 February 2003 - 08:06 AM
Sure! And many clients like to adventure as yourself! Also this is very handy to suggest when there are traffic problems, adverse weather conditions,etc
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it." ALFRED JARRY
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cabrales
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Posted 05 February 2003 - 11:11 AM
I've used public transportation in Paris, depending on the location of the restaurant and on the type of shoes I am wearing. For example, Lucas-Carton is right at the Madelaine stop. Les Ambassadeurs is very close to a subway station, as is the Pierre Herme Bonaparte store.
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Gavin Jones
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Posted 05 February 2003 - 11:16 AM
I just had a sudden insight into a Cabraletic psychogeography of Paris.
Each curvilinear metro sign merely the toponym of a cuisinier, the ghost of a macaron.
Each curvilinear metro sign merely the toponym of a cuisinier, the ghost of a macaron.
Wilma squawks no more
