Comments on: Paris: local colour

By: Ben.H

Ben.H — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:45:00 +0000

Hey Leonie! Glad to hear from you. I don't remember enchiladas and I truly, honestly can't say what toilet facilities the females might have to contend with there. "Les Couleurs" doesn't ring a bell but I doubt I'd remember the right name even if I read it now.

Like I said, I probably cdn't name half the bars I regularly got drunk in in Melbourne: "The Red Bar", "That Bar down the alleyway", "That other, littler bar down the alleyway, you know, that one. THAT one!"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:50:00 +0000

hey ben, is that bar "les couleurs"? it looks kinda like it. they have drop toilets and they serve enchiladas…that's all i can remember…

leonie

By: Ben.H

Ben.H — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:28:00 +0000

Well, there were lots of police vans all over the city this time – no surprise, really. I noticed a lot more accordians in France and Italy this time around.

I missed the crazy busker on the Metro who'd come on board with a pram full of stuffed toys and screech songs to them.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 May 2006 22:27:00 +0000

Oh yeah, the other thing we saw was a snooty Australian ex-pat*. We tried to talk to him, but he just kind of grunted at us before getting back to showing off for his English guests. But there was no hiding that accent! (Although all the French people we spoke to thought we were Irish.)

*And not in a good, sensible way, like your kind self.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 May 2006 22:24:00 +0000

One of the satisfying things about going to Paris is seeing all these people acting the way the French are supposed to, just like you've seen in the movies.

So true. We even saw a wandering busker playing an accordian. And the police are hilarious, always zooming around with about fifty of them packed into those little vans, then they all climb out clown-style and hassle some youths before zooming off again.