JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I liked Paris a lot. My only beef was the severely overcrowded metro system.
My favorite cities in Europe so far have been Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam. I'll probably be going to Vienna next month. Can't wait.
I don't remember it being overcrowded and I used to take one from Pont Neuf every day, depending where I wanted to go. I don't know if they still have such a fast system, but usually a train would have also arrived every two-three minutes during main hours, which is the fastest transit I can recall, sometimes even compared to London, certainly minutes faster than Vienna, for instance, and hours faster than my country's capital.
Overcrowded metro reminded me, instead, that most of the Rome underground stations, especially Termini, were pure death. At morning rush hour, platform full with people, incoming train also full with people and then stampede mentality in or out.
My beefs with Paris were Champs-Elysees, which is just godawful, certain places like Place de Pigalle which don't actually exhibit anything of interest and having to pronounce "a emporter" when ordering pizza to take away. Aa aaamp- aa aahmp- ah ahmpo- merde!
Dunno why but I'm not keen to visit Venice.