2 years ago my then 18 year old daughter got lost in Paris. She had
gone to a school event and then stayed with some friends until after the
Metro closed (she thought it closed later), she thought she could take
the bus to her hotel but again it was done for the night. There is some
limited bus system that runs after midnight in Paris so she called us
(S. Calif.) on her cell phone in near tears as she was not comfortable
on the streets of Paris at 1:30AM and VERY LOST. My wife and I used
Google maps and streetview to figure out where she was exactly and found
the next bus stop quite a ways away and directed her on the phone, she
got to some very dark area that she absolutely did not want to walk
through and had to figure out a round about way. Got to where the bus
stop is and she could not see/find it, again Google streetview to tell
her to look behind those 2 trees and finally got on the bus which took
her within 3 or 4 blocks of her hotel. She was pretty scared and I guess
we were too, but now we laugh uncontrollably when we think about that 1
hour 9 minutes on the cell phone with google maps and streetview walking
her home. Ok, I only laugh until I remember that cell phone bill :)
So my daughter would agree with you that some streets after midnight
in Paris are awfully scary.
mike
On 05/24/2011 02:54 PM, Kirk Hargreaves wrote:
> Nope. . didn't drive in Paris or France. . just got miserably lost one
> night walking back from a Paris jazz club . . got back after 1 AM. And
> although hats off to my wife for being a big help on the trip . . she was
> determined that night to walk opposite the direction of our hotel room . .
> determined. So rather than argue about it I told her, "Ok, we will walk
> your direction until you finally realize that we are going the wrong way."
> That was a mistake as it led to a miserable lost situation until we found a
> French police officer who, able to speak clear English and knowing the
> streets, was able to steer us back to the right direction. The Paris
> streets after midnight, some of them, kind of scary.
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