Why did we just pass my Metro stop?

I spent the day in Paris taking in the sights. I was told by a friend of mine that Paris was a walking city, my first thought was ok, like Boston. I mean the entire Freedom Trail is only 5 miles, a bit of a hike I know but doable. You can see pretty much everything in Boston on that 5 mile trek. I thought it would be the same for Paris. Not so, I think it was 5 miles from Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tour!!! Things got a lot better once I learned how to use the Metro. Boy you talk about a different experience, I ain’t in Atlanta, New York or Boston any more. Our transit system is pretty easy to understand. There is a line that is colored and it has stops indicated on it. Makes sense so far? The Paris Metro map looks the same as ours, but did you know that certain trains on the blue line don’t stop at every stop on the blue line? Some of the time you ride right past your stop leaving you to wonder how in the world am I going to get back where I came from. I am on the blue line and the map says it stops here but it didn’t. Well that will be because their Metro is a lot like calculus. Yes there is a blue line, and yes it has stops on it, but the trains also have numbers on them. This number is important because it will let you know where the train will stop on the blue line. CRAZY!!! It’s all François to me.

Now that I have that off my chest… what a cool place!!! I will refer to my 10 hours in the city of Paris as a vision trip. Now that I have seen it, I know what I want to see. I will be taking the family in the not so near future. I wanted to take a couple of pictures from the top of the Eiffel Tower to post on the blog, but I was not about to take the poor man’s way to the top. I wanted to ride the lift, “elevator” for some who are asking what is a lift? The wait in line for the lift was 3.5 hours, and I was told it would take about 1.5 hours to climb the stairs to the top. After my 5 mile trek from Norte Dame to the Eiffel Tower, I was not about to climb stairs to the top of that thing. Next time I am going to the top.

Because I don’t have internet access you will get this post about the same time you get one about my first day in India. I am currently flying over the Black Sea, which is on the northern boarder of Turkey. The way the crow flies it is about 2,267 miles from New Delhi.