Happy September! Thank you for letting me share my experience/thoughts on my first time in Paris! This one includes some actual footage of the trip as well! 🙂 Please like and subscribe if you liked the video, and I’m excited to share more with you about my trip. Thank you all for the amazing support and insight during this journey!
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You are braver than me. There is ZERO chance that I am putting common garden snails in my mouth. I don't care what it tastes like or what name you give it.
great.. another ignorant american! hahahhaahhah its funny.
next time frog legs
when visiting it's not only about seeing the monument , what is fascinating is to LEARN all the history and details about the monuments .
of course if you just look superficially you can "visit" every city in 3 days.
same for every culture , food , etec you have to dig in and be interested to understand WHY it is like it is .
Eiffel tower was the FIRST monument this size , France was like the Dubai or the Shanghai of 1900 with incredibly advanced technology and skills , so you need to put everything in context to understand how amazing these stuffs were back in the days and also how it INFLUENCED the rest of the world to follow the trend and create crazy things until nowadays
the butter garlic sauce is the only good thing in the escargot , even for french people
For the landscape IDK what you will like the most, but if you have 3 days and you want some good food, I suggest to try Lyon 🙂 .
I hope that you will travel more….and visit other parts of Europe.
East Europe, Balkan countries…etc.
Love to watch your videos.
Greetings from Croatia! 😊
Re the shoes: I think it is because of the Shoe Bomber (before or after 9/11?) during the era Al Qaida was still very active.
One thing about the metro : if you came in August, it's totally normal to have less people : all the "Parisiens" (people from paris) were in holidays and normally don't stay in paris in August. But interesting to see some USA people liked the metro while 100% of french people think it's shit.
Paris is overrated
Next time you go visit Vienna Austria 🇦🇹 it’s more beautiful city 🏙
Next time you go visit Munich and Lubeck 2 nice Citys
Rothenburg and Heidelberg are beautiful towns in Germany 🇩🇪
Generally while traveling I "do as the Romans do". Take a moment to observe your surroundings and adjust to that base line. Wine tasting is really just to confirm that the wine hasn't gone bad. Not if you like the wine itself 😉 having Escargot… you are a brave brave Lady. Most Restaurants do a "fake" Escargot. It's made with beef. I'll have that, but not the real stuff.
You are so cute how you tell your experience ❣
Someone correct me if im wrong. I think the US started with the shoe thing after 9/11. I always thought that the extra shoe check was mostly to make people feel safer.
6:05 O.O
Next time you are in France, the best place to visit is definitely the Provence region. It has everything; stunning medieval villages, chateaux, beautiful landscapes with the Mediterranean sea and the Alps, one of the best food in France, beautiful cities like Nice and Aix Provence, nice sunny weather all year long, dreamy restaurants, warm people, etc.
If you ever go to Belgium Heidi, please ask me for the good addresses. Don't get touristy trapped there's sadly a lot of that in Brussels… The reason for the price of a glass of wine is because once it's openned ? The bottle MUST be drank quickly. You can't open a bottle of good wine, store it in the fridge (NEVER DO THAT EXCEPT FOR WINES THAT ARE SPECIFICALY MADE TO BE CONSUMED COLD !!!!!) and go for it the day after. So ordering a glass will have the potential to waste a good chunk of a bottle which is why it's more expansive to cut the losses. And yeah, escargot … well … you either love it or hate it there's no middle ground so French people (and by extansion Belgian) don't eat them that often. It's more of a celebration food like Foie Gras.
I am from slovakia , central europe . I've visited many different European countries and I've never been denied a wine tasting at a restaurant when I ordered a bottle of wine. I think it's standard in Europe. The Restaurant always offers to taste the ordered wine. 🙂
For the snails restaurant experience: possibility is that it's not a touristy restaurant all year round, juste July and august are hollidays months, so Paris is almost empty and so the restaurant that keep serving will serve the tourists because their almost the only one in the city, but as they have this "touristy" inclination in summer, they have a english menu for the foreigners – or it can be just Paris, because it's so touristic, really 🙂
And for the snails, it's not exactly a touristy dish, but yes, it is common for french people to never or almost never eat snails because, yes it is a very cultural and a very french dish, but it's more of a festive dish. We'll have that at christmas or new eve, for exemple, mostly with oysters on the table too. And, as kids don't generally like snails and oysters, parents picks what they like most and snails are really peculiar, so, it's more ofter oysters than snails this days.
I'm 35 and I have had more oysters on christmas and new eve dinners than snails because nobody really liked snails in my family. We started to put snails on the table because we wanted to make my niece and nephew to test it and my nephew just LOVED it, so now we buy it just for him, really 🙂
You in America don't have a long vacation and then you have a stressful time. If you had lived in Sweden, you would have had 5 weeks of holiday and when you turn 50 you have 6 weeks of holiday every year.
"Escargot" is not all for tourists. It is a poor man's "better than nothing" meal from times when most people had to fast, and not by choice, at least a few days in their lives. It got into traditions, but it remains mostly a country side thing, not a pedantic "bourgeois" thing. Where I am from we eat some about one a year, it is quite popular around Christmas
So you did he touristy thing when you went to France! Nothing wrong with that. Lots of people do the touristy things when they go to the US I am sure.
Can you please do more George Carlin.
Every young person in the US should do what you did.
9/11 attack on the twin towers, that's where it all started. Before that, people didn't take off their shoes in airports.
You know the Eifel Tower was supposed to be a temporary building just for an expo to show what modern technology could do?
Strange in France do not eat escargot, in Italy, we do go and get snails from the woods and eat them often. They are amazing.
not as good as the london tube network
Subway system of Paris is one of the oldest and biggest metrosystems in the world
imo 2 days dont count as visiting paris, there are so many museums, cathedrals, churches, the famous champs elysee street, so many parks, the eiffel tower, louvre, notre dame, saint chapel, sacre coeur, conciergerie, outside of paris really close are versaille, fontainebleu, and the list could go on and on and on. maybe next time
For the snails it mostly depends on which region of France you're in.
the atlantic coast and paris won't eat much of them, but in the east it's a tradition to open the feast at Christmas and New year with a plate of snails. but we won't eat them much outside of the hollidays
The airport security in the US forcing you to take your shoes off is due to a (very incompetent and unsuccessful) suicide bomber who tried it in the US. He failed miserably, and it was all massively embarassing, and then the TSA, in their constant chace for power to glorified mall cops, decided that everyone has to take their shoes off now.🤦🤦
The US TSA makes you take shoes of because that's in the script of their security theatre. It has nothing to do with actual security, it's just about making everybody feel like there's maximum security protocol.
Tourist traps are allways the best😂
Always look for a Boulangerie in France 😉 and go for the countryside not the big cities. And drink Bordeaux red wine