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Driving to the 2024 Paris Olympics: What You Need to Know
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
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0:00 Driving to Paris for the Olympics
0:49 Award-winning Pňovany Bridge
2:42 Monte Kaolino - sand made ski slope
5:01 Technik Museum Sinsheim with Concorde
7:11 Zweibrücke R2D2 Observatory
8:19 Reims Cathedral
8:54 Ex F1 Circuit Reims-Gueux
10:09 Arriving to Paris
10:42 Where to Park in Paris
11:10 Paris Public Transport
12:07 Parc de la Villette
13:34 Tickets for the Olympics
15:55 Czech Con Man Sold the Eiffel Tower
17:30 Interesting Traffic Signs
18:21 Hitchiking to Paris
18:52 Metro is a French Word
20:13 Paris Syndrome
21:02 Stop Signs
22:11 Czech Word
Thank you for your support!
Janek Rubeš & Honza Mikulka, Prague based journalists
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For the story, there is indeed no stop sign in Paris because the only one situated on the "Quai Saint-Exupéry" was stolen in 2013 and was never replaced by the city.
Stolen by some african migrant prolly
I would avoid Paris in 2024 for sure
Not only was it stolen, but everytime they replaced it the people stole it again and again!
@@dukeofistria5712what the fuck man ?
The racisme you are showing is not cute. We are glad you are avoiding Paris, we don't want you here anyways 🤷🏻♀️@dukeofistria5712
@@dukeofistria5712 Ok racelard
Congrats😊 you seem to be now official ambassadors for the Czech Republic.
Really enjoy the work you two publish. Thanks.
If they don't put "Paris, France" while showing the Eiffel Tower, how are Americans supposed to know that it isn't "Las Vegas, Nevada"?
Or Paris, Texas (north east of Dallas and which also has an Eiffel Tower).
@@jonnaughton or the tokyo tower or the one in china
There's probably a hundred Eiffel copies of all sizes
another attempt at insulting Americans? must be very jealous and insecure
10:15 It is so funny to see the Honest Guide in Paris and the first reaction of my french girlfriend to this cafe is "Oh my god I see all the red flags. This is a tourist cafe. The Croissant is most definitely industrial and these types of cups screams tourist trap" 😂
Thats why we need Hones Guide Paris, start it we will watch
Janek hating Love locks >>>>>>>>>>>>>
I find this Toyota advertisement pretty entertaining and informative.😁
Quick tip : going up the arc de triomphe is free for anyone under 26. 😇
But please use the underground passage to get to it
"Tourists crossing the roundabout."
If that's l'Etoile, the star around the Arc de Triomphe, there's a tunnel. Someone pointed it out to me right before I almost made the same mistake when I visited in 2000.
Wow, Honest guide in Paris!
Amazing, I hope I'll run into you during the olympics! I'd love to tchat and thank you for your videos :D
The fact you didn't drive a Škoda to Paris must be akin to treason...
Completely agree! Shame on you @HONESTGUIDE 😆
Skoda was bought by evil volkswagen years ago already it's not the same anymore
Looks like Toyota sponsored the trip
The Czech scammer who sold the Eiffel Tower has a funny name. Literally. Lustig = funny 😅
Is this video sponsored by Toyota?
I think so, but in a roundabout way. This video was commissioned by the czech olympic team, which of course gets money from the olympics and toyota is one of the main olympics sponsors
@12:13 iFly Paris, indoor skydiving or vertical windtunnel. Really fun, try it out next time. There are vertical windtunnel all over Europe, most of them in every major city, capitals.
A huge thanks to the honest guide channel, all your tips, tricks and advice made my holiday to Prague super easy, I even made my own UA-cam video! Your videos are always awesome, keep up the great work
Thank you soooo much. 💐
Like I always do, thank you to say this as well, so more people learn to enjoy this:
THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION ❣️❣️❣️❣️
And detours ore to get lost, wrong way etc. are the best way to find magic places and humans with heart as well ❤
At least my experiences after travel more than 60 countries. 😊
PD: I live close to all those places you visited in Germany, very welcome. 😊 And to visit Paris at least once ore twice a year, it’s always a big pleasure to me. ❤
Woah, that start about there not being a single stop sign in Paris is so, so incredibly interesting. Thank you for that nugget of information
Janek, the destination is where you end up.
The journey is the adventure.
maybe wrong translation, of journey is a goal (probably my translation is wrong too)
I'm sure others have/will have posted a correction to your claim about the Paris Metro, the Metropolitan underground railway in London was the first subway/metro/tube line from which the term "Metro" derives for underground railways. Love the channel
Although I know Wikipedia isn't a great source, the name was shortened to Met, not Metro... I can't find any sources that called it Metro for short, but have found three referring to it as the Met. Whereas numerous historical sources have métro for the one in Paris.
@@RAD6150 The suburbs in North London that built up around the Metropolitan Railway were called "Metro Land" in advertising material.
@@katrinabryce The suburb being Metro Land doesn't mean that the train was called the Metro...
@19:20 "Everywhere else in Europe they'll call it metro" - Not true: In Germany and Austria, where they have very extensive networks, it's called U-Bahn (from Untergrundbahn), which is a literal translation of underground (rail). In Sweden it's known with a T from tunnelbana (tunnel rail). In other words, the idea of the "metro" is not as extended as one might think.
11:00 The best way to visit Paris now is just to rent a bike, there's a ton of free floating and self rental bikes (Velib) and given all the incredible work done on bike infrastructure, it's the best way to visit the city now.
I was going to say that, if you have the time and don't mind a bit of exercise, Vélib' is a way better alternative than the shitty overpriced Paris Subway.
Here’s a tip I learned long ago from a Paris taxi driver when I asked if he finds us Americans annoying - “learn a few words of French. Like do you speak English. Please. Thank you. Friends are sending us photos in summer of them on holiday and we have to work and deal with tourists. But he said as long as you attempt to speak and be courtesy you will be fine.” Then he said “don’t find Americans annoying, but French Canadians trying to speak French…??!!!”
❤ congrats for representing your country ❤
4:32 Today's bonus Czech words are "ty kráso", which mean "holy cow", "wow" (expressing surprise). The literal translation of the expression is "you beauty" (but it's not used to pay a compliment).
Romania has a miniature of the Eiffel Tower somewhere in the south of the country too. And the engineer Gustave Eiffel (the person that designed the tower) has also influenced the architecture of our country. For example he built a bridge named after him over the Prut river (at the border between Romania and Moldova, and in addition the Grand Hotel Traian in the city of Iași (which is located in the north east of Romania).
Toyota product placement...
Yep, and not HONEST about it!
@@deek3048 Did anyone tell you that there is not going to be any ad or product placement in this video? be honest about it? have they?
@@mracer8 Honest channels have statements that it will have product placement.
@@mracer8 YES, they pride themselves of not taking ANY freebies from places they visit! If they were honest they would disclose that this is a commercial for toyota and they got a free car!
@@deek3048 Nobody cares dude. Don't like it? Unsub and don't come back. See ya!
Wow I want to be ‘Requested by Team Czechia to make video with tips’ level of iconic.
More like requested by some car company ...
@@marekbarycz4397 that car company is official general partner of Czech olympic and paralympic teams, so it makes sense...
The word Metro or Metropolitan actually came from London, not Paris. The Metropolitan Railway in London (now the Metropolitan Line) predates the Paris Metro. Most people will say it was the first underground railway in the world. It is certainly the oldest, but the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first - it now takes a different route into Liverpool not via that tunnel.
"Subway" comes from the Glasgow District Subway which some people say is the second oldest in the world, however it isn't even the second oldest in Glasgow.
My first time going to Paris, I bought a brass turtle lock because I didn't know how bad it was... but in my research, I saw how disliked it was and that it really is litter. I didn't bring it and was glad I learned before I did something out of ignorance.
Janek, he is the man chasing you and your love-locks anywhere in the world.
Thank you for this video with all the information! Really helpful 😁🤩
hockenheim is also right next to the autobahn if you go from prague to paris
Yep
more of this please ,i want to see more travelling videos
Спорт, это то лучшее, что придумало человечество 😊😊😊
Good Luck Czech Olympic Team!.
2:38 - creative mirror shot Honza!
Good on the Olympics team to send these guys in advance. Public awareness but also probably help for the Olympic team on what to do and what not to do.
Meanwhile, it's almost 800km to get out of my country if driving to France. 600km if taking a ferry.
As a french watching the video I had to pause a few times as I was very surprised.
10:15 WTF is that croissant? The person who sold you that should be in jail for this heresy. A croissant has nothing in it or with it. The only acceptable exception is almonds. Nothing else. If it has something like cream or anything else, then it's not a croissant, with chocolate it'a a pain au chocolat (chocolatine pour nos amis du sud), with apples it's a chausson aux pommes, with grapes it's pain au raisin etc.
12:02 I've been in Prague for 5 months (just came back...) and yes there are way more people in Paris than in Prague in the metro
15:55 these sellers are illegals. They are selling without permits or paying taxes. Don't encourage them to do this business and help us clean our city from this mess
17:43 that's absolutely illegal and dangerous! It is causing a lot of problems and accidents. As a cyclist myself, I put my bike to block the other cyclists to cross on the red light. This problem is plaguing the city since covid and is polarizing the debate about bikes in Paris. Don't do that as a tourist, we already have too much of this in our own. BUT the small sign is legal so yes in some cases you can. But it's almost (99% of the cases it's going to the right and signaling a continuity of the cycling way without crossing another street)
19:17 at that time, multiple companies were creating the metro. The one that gave us the word was almost forgotten but the most famous one is probably the North-South line that gave us the 12 and 13 line. In every station that was created by this line (it was one but divided into 2 later) you can see a small pannel explaining the story behind this line. These station are the one I love the most because of the decorations around the name. IIRC it should be small ceramics panes ornated with waves (light blue, brown or green depending on the station but maybe other coulours)
...and why you have in Paris the same color for different roads of train/metro??? Yellow one for example... It was described as to stop at one station and of course it didn't, I had to wait 1 hour for coming back this one station... super annoying.
@@grossibp it's about the RER C?
It's a mess. There are multiple (too much) branches so if you want to go somewhere you have to take the good train. I'm almost never using it due to that.
RER and metro are quite different and serve a slighly different purpose. RER is more used by peoples going to or comming from outside Paris (for example to go to La Défense by RER A or to Versailles by RER C)
Btw "metro" in frech is masculine but a metro line is feminine so "the 12" (the metro line 12 is feminine: "la 12" or "la ligne 12). But RER is masculine and you say "le C" or "le RER C")
A letter always designate a RER or a "train de banlieue" (RER: circle, train: square) and a number is a metro line or a tram (trams always have a T in front of the number and are mostly if not totaly located outside of Paris)
@@phileascurtil5605 Yes, I was going RER C to outside, I studied well the tables and knew this is the proper one but nope hehe, LOL C
@@phileascurtil5605tu devrais ouvrir une chaîne, the honest guide ''french edition'' 😂
ALOHA Two things… Not all phones work well. If you are going to only stay a week or so, Buy a Navigo (5c). I go to Paris, but not for the crowded Olympics, I always listen to ‘Les Frenchies’. 🌴🌴Aloha
The Metro is actually named after the Metropolitan Railway in London, the world's first Underground railway/subway/metro.
Kind of hilarious to suggest driving to Paris within Europe. Europe is one of the lucky places that actually has high-speed and regional trains 😂
Remember, from Prague he would have to take the ICE. He wouldn't reach his destination.
Why would he have to take ICE? @@Ashikawahong there are alternate routes than ICE that involve Flixbus or slightly slower trains that are still faster than the driving time.
Regarding the Eiffel Tower, Janek. You know, it could be the Blackpool Tower in northern England ;)
There is a Concorde at Duxford Air Museum near Cambridge in England, I remember visiting Duxford many years ago and you were able to go on and have a look around it, it’s a really interesting place
It would have been good to mention there's an underground passage to l'Arc de Triomphe so people who want to see it can avoid doing the dumb thing of trying to go via busy roundabout.
Sorry, but in Germany we dont called it Metro. We call it U-Bahn. Sometimes it is just a S-Bahn.
thank you mr the teacher
Also Austria.
A S-Bahn is totally different from a U-Bahn 🤦♂🤦♂
@@julianreverse Now not in so many parts. Many S-Bahn also drive in the Underground.
But mostly in Germany U-Bahn is the Metro in other countries.
Just returned from Prague after an 8 day visit, and we were in Paris in 2018. I have to say, Prague kicks Paris's butt from here to Sunday and back. Much more walkable, much more beautiful, much more affordable, much more unique, and much better food. And the cherry on top was taking a selfie with Janek.
и мигрантов нет, которыми угробили город
Depends what you consider, many districts of Prague are not very walkable, biking in Prague (did some in May) turned out being still as hard as many years ago... Though I recognize food and prices have been great in Prague. I think you should visit Paris again maybe with a bike, they made so many improvements on the pedestrians and bike side in Paris, it's pretty crazy.... in comparison Prague is still way too car centered.
How about no, don't go to the f**king Olympics?
Great Video, thank you ❤
In Germany you should have chosen Speyer or Heidelberg, those are much more interesting. Also Speyer has one of 3 remaining Romanesque cathedrals.
The Crit'd Air sticker is easy to get - order it online and you can use the printed confirmation pdf as a "sticker" till you get a real one. I have small video about it on my channel.
OMG that troll at the end with the word is gold. Good one Janek x D
What’s the troll?
It works if you support the right team 🇨🇿😋
Loved the video, I’m curious. Did you guys get compensated by Toyota for the product placement? If not, I think you missed a serious opportunity.
LOL They are getting paid for the promotion of Toyota, just aren't honest about it....
And now you have to come back because they hold some sports in Lille and it's a beautiful city too ! (And the metro is cheaper :) )
Love your videos and I live in Paris! Please! Tell people that if they are in the arc the triomphe they don't need to cross the street like crazy people! There are pedestrian tunnels!
That is a Toyota C-HR ? Hybrid or with the added Plug-in option?
I just got a brand new Toyota Yaris Hybrid 130 and took it North-South across Germany and Austria. It drives beautifully! And I can only assume you had so much fun driving that C-HR ;)
And getting paid for the promotion....
Hahaha, I live near the town with the sand slope, but I have never been. Now I will go! 😅
IIRC The Time Traveller made a full video on the F1 track, if any of you are interested
Most of the french national museum are free if you are under 25 and EU resident
Will you hang out in your Czech house during the Olympics? Thanks for the tip, I'll go there.
The Philharmonie you showed us has amazing acoustics.
They just added a submarine to the Sinsheim museum!
I hope you had a nice time at the 2028 Sydney Olympics. Loved the Empire State Building and the whole TikTok. Well done on 58 million followers on your Threads! The Pnovansky ship tunnel looked jaw dropping! The gravel snowboard incline looked good!
Totally agree, the Honda boat was neat, I wonder if it was paid promotion..
@@aaronaaronsen3360 I wrote it all as a joke im not dumb!
@@SSS92934 I never said you were, I thought it was funny and was building on top of it.
Sorry if it sounded condescending, that was not my intention 😅
The Americans and the Canadians have a lot of stop signs because they have the 3 way and four way stops. Whilst in Europe you have one simple rule: right priority over left. And this rule does not really exist in North America, so they resort to the First in first out rule with their stop signs. I earned a lot of confused glares when I stoped on a parking lot to let a lady coming from the right into my road (I was in the left), because I learned driving by the European rule.
Quebec for example uses Stop signs with the marking "Arret" and you can easily see Anglophone areas in francophone Quebec when they put up regular stop signs, like in Dorval, at the Rue Queen Mary in Montreal and in Westmount.
Little Slovak note: There is a street called Rue de Presbourg (Bratislava street, named after the Slovak Capital) next to Arc de Triomphe. This street has got its name after the signing of Bratislava peace treaty after Napoleon's battle at Austerlitz that took place in today's Czech republic in 19th century.
I was in Paris 2 weeks ago. It stinks everywhere, it's super duper crowded like you showed and more, a lot of trash, no feeling of French style, no good looking people, everywhere everything was blocked by ugly fences, even directly under Eiffel tower!, palaces sorrounded by plywoods, exits from metro - very badly described, one line had couple endings, train didn't stop where it supposed to, expensive tickets, people pretend they don't know English... very very disappointed, avoid this place, put the last on your trip visits. You won't regret.
Go to find Notre Dam metro entrence by the river... not even a single "M" logo above... but some things were cheaper than in my present "nordic" country, like basic food and cafes.
@@grossibpThat's Paris syndrome in a nutshell.
I'm french and I never go to Paris if I don't to got for some important reason mostly for what you described.
As for the "french feeling" it's mostly Hollywood crap. If I ever go to a Nordic country I don't think I will be welcomed by vikings at the airport or that I'll have to solve a murder in a snow storm 😅
@@aaronaaronsen3360 one super thing was Eiffel tower, I thought it's 2x smaller than in reality and very complex. Nice.
@@aaronaaronsen3360 :D
@@grossibp I agree, even if as you said it was blocked by stupid fences. I remember I had a coffee on the 2nd floor and it wasn't even THAT expensive.
Do you know how much we Parisians are NOT excited about the Games and expecting all kinds of trouble until they're over? 😅
The Eiffel Tower. The one Eiffel offered to Barcelona before Paris. I remember. So Barcelona city council said no thanks and Eiffel who made some bridges in Girona then moved to Paris.
In Barcelona now since then we have a Triumph Arch (l'Arc de Triomf) and it is very close to el Parc de la Ciutadella. So imagine having in the same city La Sagrada Família and the Eiffel Tower (la Torre Eiffel).
Well, it wasn't meant to be.
🇪🇸Quite happy with that decision. It's very ugly. People just like it because it's romantized a lot.
Gaudí it's our great artist over here😘👌
@Honestguide if you ever come to denmark ,and sønderborg .do say we have alot of story here .there was a big battle in 1864 Denmark vs Austria/ preusser
I lived near Sinsheim and Speyer and i am very astonished of your research about the technical museum from both city. Most people doesnt mention it
Great video! Thank you! On with the Games!
amazing, love this type of content!
Nice journey!
Bridges, Lovelocks, i'm in
People should be fined for this dumb lovelock
We need a honest guide version parisien for Paris :)
In Austria and Germany, the metro is called U-bahn ( Untergrundbahn).
We are going to be in Prague in a 3 days, as one of your biggest fans, we would love to meet you!
Hamza should visit Holland Huis one day (dutch house) pretty sure he will change his mind :)
Montréals paris métro signe Is actually an original and the only one installed at a metro entrance outside of France. It had until recently the original glass globes and not the plastic ones that had replaced them in Paris... Just a little correction
I would have thought you also would visit the Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle, since that is actually the model the bigger Statue of Liberty in NYC is based on. Also I would have thought you might introduce people to the Batobus, a ferry on the Seine which is public transport. So you have a cruise and public transport to some of the bigger touristic places at the same time. And as last: I would also highlight the Tour Montparnasse, where you can have a view over the city of Paris for a low price as well, but without the waiting times at for example the Tour de Eiffel.
Tupolew is known from trauma in Poland as most hated airplane. Exactly Tupolew TU-154 which crashed on 10 april 2010 in Smolensk while flying to Katyn. Over 80 people, including polish president and his wife, all died. It's forbidden to fly with Tupolew in Poland.
Tips when driving to Paris during the Olympics, don't it's overpriced and congested and most of it is blocked off for the athletics.
I saw you in Paris, I was so scared to say hi 😅
I have to disagree with Janek on Prague being a big city. It is not. Usually you can reach any point in Prague within 15 to 20 minutes. Or in reverse, even during rush hour, you can drive from Malostranska or Smetanovo nabrezi (which is pretty much the city centre) to the edge of the city near Divoka Sarka in well under 20 minutes. Try doing that in a 'big city'. Again, Prague is not a big city, even though the Prague metro area has 1.3 million people, this city lacks the grand boulevards (no, magistrala is not a grand boulevard) and grand squares or roundabouts (no vitezne namesti is not a grand roundabout) you see in places like Brussels, Budapest, Warsaw... or indeed Paris or London. Prague, for some reason, feels small, it does not feel like one of Europes great population centers. It is very very majestic and beautiful though, 'big' it ain't
Bonjour. Bienvenue au monde entier à Paris. :) Bienvenue aux athlètes du monde entier :) Ces JO vont êtres splendides :) de Paris - France
Sorry guys but, the Montreal Metro Arch is THE only original outside of Paris. It used to be at the Charles de Gaulle Étoile station.
Monte Kaolino reminds me of a sandboarding by Madventures. But as it was in Namibia, it would extend the driving route from Czechia to Paris by a few km. :D
Guys I am guide in Paris I want to meet you!
Was hoping for a Adam Ondra cameo. But great video non the less.
14:18 There is an underground tunnel under the arc de triomphe please be civilized and take it... the entry/exit is close to the top of the champs elysée
that philharmony building (13:22) reminds me a lot the Musée des Confluences in Lyon...different architect though
I don't know if it's still a thing or not, but you used to be able to get a better pass for the metro. They sell a cheaper one to locals and will also sell it to anyone, but you need a passport sized photo with you to buy one. It's been several years, so I don't know if you can still do this. They didn't have smartphones or apps the last time I was there 😉
I like your hoodie, Janek!
22:17 Wait a minute, "Češi do toho" means "Go Czechs" (it's a way to cheer for Czech teams; "do toho" means "go ahead", "go for it"). Is Janek trying to pull a "language scam" on us? 😂 Regardless, good luck to the Czech teams!
I'm coming back to this Formula 1 track, did you know that Brno also used to have a Formula 1 track? The remains of the pit can still be seen today. 😅
2:23 I was expecting Janek to grab a pair of bolt cutters out of his backpack and break the padlocks, but unfortunately no 😀
Why not take the train, I did it spring last year and it was a decent overnight journey. Frankfurt main train station does unfortunately suck, as the local council refuses to heat it up and so you are forced to sit there in winter clothing. Other than that, despite the tragic German rail network, it was a pleasant journey. Driving shouldn't be the first option, it should be the very last when there isn't absolutely anything else to choose.
Why don't you guys post your videos in 4K now? Its 2024.
because it would need 4x more storage space and it's not ecofriendly, especially when watching from more than 2 meters.
@@cheeseparis1 The storage is in the data center but on your end you're free to chose the 360p version if you like... personally on my own UA-cam channel (not this account) I post everything in 4k60 and the quality is so much better.
@@cheeseparis1 That makes no sense. UA-cam lets you select any quality preference you want but 4K should be basic now in this year. Computers can easily edit it, phones can record in that resolution and TV’s that support 4K are widely adopted now. It makes watching vids so much nicer.
@@manu.yt25 Exactly what I meant, extra room needed in the datacenters, then extra power needed. IIRC, UA-cam proposes some 4K videos, but for premium users only
@@cheeseparis1 Yeah but if you don't want to use 4k yourself it's fine, that's the second part of this carbon footprint math. For the rest 4k videos are free for everyone on UA-cam, I don't use them most often but for some kind of content and some screens, 4k changes everything. For the rest I think that they probably had a much much higher footprint in the video by driving a petrol car accross Europe (instead of taking the train) than if they posted the video in 4k.
honestly, you guys, got asked FROM the olympic team from czech? that's so cool. sorry if I wrote the country wrong
There are very few stop signs in England.
I can't wait to watch the olympics ruin Paris.
When can you guys show us vegan places to go eat when in Prague?
Of course, like anything cycling related, we have right turn on red signs for cyclists in the Netherlands too!
Congrats Janek ❤
Just so you know, as a Parisian we fear the Olympic Games taking place in our city. It’s gonna be hell especially for those who are still working during the holiday like me. My advice : don’t visit Paris during this event or you’ll have the Paris syndrome for sure. Anyway, if you’re planning to go to the Czech’s fan zone honest guides I will be pleased to meet you as I live 2 min from it ! I’ll be your honest guide 😉
The French being way over-exaggerating drama queens, as always...
Most of the "fear" that I hear about is simply not justified by numbers.
The transit system's ridership decreases by almost half on a normal year during the summer, especially in August.
While the Olympic tourists are not even nearly numerous enough to compensate for the common summer ridership decrease compared to a normal week in, say, April or May.
There could be 2 or 3 times more Olympic tourists, and yet, we still wouldn't reach the ridership of a normal busy week in spring or autumn.
I've lived in Paris for the past 40+ years, and my fellow countrymen are ever so increasingly exhausting, because they can't stop complaining about everything, always blowing everything out of proportions, brooding over something, pouting like toddlers, and being the least positive people I've ever met.
@@KyrilPG i’m actually living in Paris…
@@mariusmeslon9563 Me too... And everything is way way way exaggerated, as always.
@@KyrilPG so you’re a lucky one
@@mariusmeslon9563 Not particularly, I've just learned to be a little less French, maybe, and more realistic. In other words, dropping the "bleak-tinted" glasses to see things as they are and not in an excessively pessimistic way.
Like, as I've already written, the fears about the transit system are unsubstantiated given the actual numbers.
There are far more people leaving on holiday than actual tourists coming for the Olympics.
So, if the transit system becomes an issue during the games, it won't be due to overcrowding