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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 08:48 AM
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28. Just came back after 9 days there.
It's one of our favorite places to go and live - not vacation, but live for a week.

We rent an apartment, take the buses, use the Vélib bicycles, walk, ride buses or trams or RER and visit the markets. An afternoon in the Jardin du Luxembourg watching the pétanque players, the tennis players, the little kids sailing the model boats on the pond outside the Senat, the tai chi class, the pony rides and the neighborhood people enjoying the park is one of the delights of Paris.

Just walking around the city makes you feel good and makes you realize that it's possible to have a civil society.

And yes, there are plenty of problems in France - there is racism and sexism and violence - but it's not nearly as crazy as it is here.

C'est mon reve, France.
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