Paris Metro
Catching metros around Paris is very easy to do. Don’t hesitate. If you are in Paris for a few days or more you are best to purchase a “Carnet” of ten tickets from a ticket office in a metro station – you use one ticket per person for each journey. You can also use these tickets to catch buses. These cost about 11 Euros for 10 tickets, so it is a very affordable way of getting around Paris.
My daughter Sarah Reese is studying in Paris, and has to take metros to get around. After several months she has noticed that every metro line has a different personality even! There are some metro lines she actively avoids even! She has the following to say:
Truly loving Paris, I feel so alive here and it’s hard to imagine myself ever going back to Christchurch haha, love this fast pace, although am perpetually tired.
The metros crack me up. Going home is so horrendous and filthy its disgusting. Thank god for my ipod cos its FANTASTIC to crank it up and block out the shittiness. So it’s just me, Jim Sturgess and Miley Cyrus. Although mainly just Jim!
Just had two weeks off (from school) in Paree was a really treasured thing. I mean, I study out in Noisy le Grand: the land of muggings at gunpoint (I kid you not, two in one week), questionable kebab shops, and well, subzero temperatures. So having two weeks in Paris was splendid. I really started noticing things about the world – let’s take metro stations for example. Seriously, metro stations are the 21st century version of knighthoods. Whatever have Marie Curie, Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo done to get a metro station? Quite frankly, I think a Sarah Reese station is much in order.
Hey, so I’ll meet you tonight at the Abracadabar.
Ok, cool, how do I get there?
Its easy, you take Line Twelve in direction of Mairie D’Issy, change at Sarah Reese, and then get on to Line Two. I’ll meet you outside the second exit at 20h00, okay?
Okay, cool.
Bye.
Excellent. I’m a French teacher and I’m gonna show this to my students. We’re going to France in a few weeks!
Cluny le Sorbonne is just fabulous. mosiac ceiling like gold.
I love all the beautiful illustrations, modern, retro,
and the 20’s especially.
Its such a wonderful surprise, when you see the artistic
work that has been done in alot of the Metros.
Looking forward to seeing the again, and discovering them
again, know where lots more interesting ones are now.
Happy Travelling – Paris – Amazing place, and alot of
friendly people, who have actually visited NZ, and loved
discussing their visit to our lovely country.
” Just saw tonight a great hours programme on great cities
by Rhys (English) Jones. The Living Chanel on Sky –
Lots to talk about there. PARIS LOOK MAGNIFICENT.
Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!
Thumbs up, and keep it going!
Cheers
Christian, iwspo.net
Another fun post by you and Sarah! I don’t have a lot of Metro experience, but I did really like the Abbesses station and it was a pleasant ride from there to Place de la Concorde.