Finally, Paris

After travelling in work and leisure trips all over the globe, I have managed to visit in US, UK, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Cyprus, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Estonia, Slovakia, China (HongKong, Shanghai, Xian, Guangzhou, Beijing, Fuzhou), Taiwan, Singapore and several other places, but funny part is, that I haven't never ever visit in France. Later on, I have thought, that actually why I haven't ever visit in France before, even several times it has been pretty close, but I cannot figure out.

This time the notice was short, so I managed to get fly ticket (Finnair of course) and I have read about Paris and Charles De Gaulle airport, but still I didn't know what to notice. When the plain eventually arrived to CDG, I was a little bit surprised. The airport was small.... or consists several small parts and it looked like 1970's airports, like Heathrow in UK.... so little bit "oldish", but ok otherwise. Then I took my luggages and went to taxi pole. There was some 20 meter queue and the first 10 meters was a already upset and pulse was near 300 (heartbeat), because taxi queue didnt get any shorter (lack of taxis).... Merde and other interesting, easy understandble words was thrown to the air. For some reason I started to smile.... somehow it was meeting my expectations from France.

The other point was in beginning of taxi trip. I said to French driver, that my address is "Rue de Bercy" with Finnish-English dialect.... He didnt probably got it and asked something like "arrdpöösi" and I said that "no no, rue de bercy" and this we continued several times, when I saw the paper and pen in the console and asked him to give those to me. After I got those, I wroted that "Rue de Bercy" and I saw it to taxi driver.... He was so happy rising hands (scary in French traffic) and saying Qui Qui, arrdpöösi... so, eventually we had same address but totally different pronancement. Of course he speaks French in own country, but for me, this was interesting possibility to check the odd language (maybe thay think same about Finnish, and I cannot blame them).

Well.... Paris is city of love, At near evening, about 19:00 I was walking to see Eiffel tower and I was walking to take this picture near river side, when I was in the park bench sitting old guy and young lady. Guy was sitting in behind and kissing girls neck and grabbing breasts at the same time when tens of persons were walking by. Girl was just closed her eyes.... I didnt dare to stear, but in some sense I quess that kind of activities you can expected when you are in Paris :-)

BTW: Paris subway is a probably the biggest mess and pretty hard to understand, even the trains are very modern (like in London they are not)