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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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France or Spain?
I am planning to take a quick trip in March for traveling. About a week or so. I am trying to decide which one is more worthy and a better visit. If I go to Spain, I will probably be in Barcelona or Madrid. If I go to France...I will probably be in Paris
 I am just wondering what activities can be recommended while I am there..historical monuments,museums,tourist attractions,etc
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Re: France or Spain?
Provence is maybe more interesting than Paris, it has great many Roman monuments.
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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I guess you alrealdy know my answer.
 Well, if you are interested in history I advise you the Army Museum (Musée des Invalides). It took me almost two days to visit it entirely. The best museum in my opinion. Then you have the art museum Orsay, the science museum Cité des Sciences-La Villette... and of course the Louvre museum. As for monuments... the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame cathedral, the palace of Versailles, the Arc de Triomphe, the Panthéon, the Sacré-Coeur ... More there. A trip in a "fly-boat" (bateau-mouche) on the Seine river is impossible to circumvent as well. Tourist attractions ? You mean like our EuroDisney or Asterix Park ? Around Paris you can also visit the Loire castels, Normandy (everything about D-Day), the Mont Saint-Michel or the Chantilly castel. There are daily excursions. If there is a girl with you, you also have the famous Haussman stores and the Champs-Elysées, Paris is a shopping paradise... though I would not advice you to do it without a Gold or Platinum card... Not to forget about Parisian restaurants. Also, Paris is the only city in which you can visit Alger, Bamako and Istanbul at the same time without leaving the European soil : Barbès.  However I will be honest. I advice you to visit Madrid if : - you want to party - you want to be in a mostly "White" city. But if you are only interested in cultural and historical things, go for Paris. And visit Madrid next year...
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My business is to succeed, and I am good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Yeah, Barbès, la Goutte d'Or, Belleville... So typical.
Are you visiting alone?
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"Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war."
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Yes, I recommend you to visit France... we don't want any Italians chasing our women
 
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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haha Galaico you are silly
But I am going with my father most likely, maybe a friend who is male. I am not much into partying, so it seems that so far Paris is the better pick.
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Re: France or Spain?
Go to Paris, there is always EuroDisney, you know.......
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Eurodisney..my aunt and her husband and kids went there about 3 summers ago. They said it was beyond boring and no one really enjoyed it. They said the kids had more fun when they left and were around the surrounding cities and towns.
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Ok, so I'll highly recommend you visit, besides monuments and museums, the most colonised areas of today "Pawis", to have an idea of what the future is to look like everywhere else.
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"Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war."
Last edited by Carnyx; Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 20:44.
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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You went to Disneyland Paris Milesian?
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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"Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war."
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
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Quite by accident, obviously
__________________ The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the Ge |
