- The Eiffel Tower is brown, not gray.
- The Mona Lisa is not in a room by itself. In fact, it's in a room full of Venetian painting, which is all a it weird.
- Everything is the same price as in Australia, it's just that the price is in Euro, which is worth about twice as much as the dollar. I stopped converting back, and haven't dared to look at my bank balance since.
- There really is a Patisserie on every corner.
- The Bastille Fortress was demolished a very long time ago. Actually, I may have learned this in French history, but forgot. Sorry Sue...
- They have some Metro lines with trains on rubber wheels, it's endlessly fascinating.
- The Notre Dame cathedral is so well restored that it looks like it was built 8 years ago, not 800 years ago.
- That I would have quite as much fun there as I did (A big thankyou to the Kings and Queens and People of Paris for building such an interesting city, collecting so much art and knocking up Versailles too. Also, big thanks to Benoit for dinner, my parents and Claire for a fun night out (in the red light district, no less) and Alex who took the walking tours around the city and Montmartre).
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