Showing posts with label paris maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paris maps. Show all posts

Take the Paris Bus!

Yesterday one of you said she'd prefer not to take the hot, stuffy Metro to her new Paris job, so today I'll show you how to take the bus to work. Paris must have one of the best public transportation systems on the planet if not THE BEST. Walk up to the bus shelter and *note the buses stopping are listed on the side.
Paris Bus Now this is the cherry on top! Every bus shelter has a 'working' digital sign telling you exactly when you're bus will arrive (or if it won't arrive at all because of a demonstration...ahem).
There are clear maps (really they are) telling you where you're going and indicating if you are on the right side of the street. Interactive Paris bus map here.
Including a map with ALL the buses in the immediate vicinity. Paris since 2006 has a special night line of buses running after midnight btw.
No need to buy Pariscope when bus shelter signs tell you what's on.
The side of all Paris buses will tell you their first and last destination.
Paris Bus Please board at the front of the bus and smash your Navigo magnetic card against the box thing. Or you can buy a ticket from the driver.
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Do say 'Bonjour Monsieur/Madame' to the driver svp.
Inside you'll find a bus map + another digital sign telling (in French) the next stop/la prochaine arret
Paris Bus The bus is quite a civilized way to see Paris and get around, definitely more scenic than the Metro.
Paris Bus Please do exit/partie out the backdoor. The red button is to alert the driver of your stop/arret
Once you know the buses in your area you can go online to check out it's route. Easy peasy.
Line 38 runs north to south through the city center and provides memorable views of the Latin Quarter, the Seine river, or Notre Dame Cathedral.
Line 68 offers a vantage of the Musee d'Orsay, Saint-Germain des Près, the Seine, The Louvre, and the Opéra Garnier.
Line 28 offers lovely views of the Ecole Militaire, the Assemblée Nationale, the Seine River, le Grand Palais, and the Champs-Elysées.
Line 96 winds through beautiful spots on the right bank, including Hotel de Ville, the medieval Marais neighborhood, and trendy Bastille. Info from Go Paris.
Paris Bus These days Bear & I take the bus all the time in Paris. But almost never in NYC. New York has contests to see which bus is slowest :( Do you take the bus in Paris?

Moi, Tourist

Paris Metro Update: iPod Touch
About the only thing I can work on the iTouch is MYFISH 3D
Paris Metro Everything else is a washout...

Paris Metro The how-to book I bought is too heavy, too long...
Paris Metro I'm sending it back and getting the new Kindle Fire.

Paris Metro The Louvre app works but do I need it?

Paris Metro I thought those Paris apps would really help me get Metro savvy...

Paris Metro But let's face. I eat off Metro place maps (from La Vaissellerie)

Paris Metro Rick Tulka's wife even gave me Paris Metro eyeglass cleaning cloth

Paris Metro My Paris Metro dish towel may win the day...

Paris MetroCan you see me...

Paris Metro Holding up this in a rush hour Metro?

Paris Metro I love my NY MTA subway shower curtain but the French don't use shower curtains - ca n'existe pas en Paris

Paris Metro I can pick up a London Underground shower curtain...

Paris Metro At Stanfords bookstore on Long Acre Street...

Paris Metro With maps like this on London streets who needs apps?

Paris Metro Here's my own app-file of places to visit in Paris organized by arrondissement...

Paris Metro I'm getting these Underground flip flops at Stanfords and the Mona Lisa flip flops in the Louvre gift shop (to wear in New York only)

BON WEEKEND Fellow Tourists!

iPod Touch I Think I Luv U

BEAR is not too thrilled with his new iPod Touch 4th Gen...
He's threatening to do something lethal if we don't figure this %$#@ thing out soon...
HELP George Clooney! Where R U when we need U?
Bet this 5-year old on Mad Ave could figure out the iPod Touch but we can't :(

What's with this slidey thing at the bottom? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And don't tell me to read the directions in the box - R U kidding. The type is -00.


BEAR does love his Paris maps so we managed to buy and downloaded all the Paris map apps David Lebovitz told us too...

So pretty non?

We heard the Louvre app is really swell and hey it's FREE. We got it. But how come we CAN'T OPEN #@!$IT!?


In fact we can't open any APPS we uploaded...

Why is that? SOS!

Someone at David's said this was a REALLY good app - but it's 303MB..isn't that like too many MBs? We only have 32 gigs on our little iPod Touch thingie :(

So these are my Apps so far. AND do not say anything about the Better Bum App - it's supposed to be really good according to the Daily Mail or some rag and hey it's FREE

Right now BEAR & I feel pretty idiotic 'cause we are not getting this iPod Touch thing. Is there a How-to book/class for us?YES! ANd we got it!

When we GET it, we are gonna toast Paris big time soon!

BEAR says he wants a cashmere baby bearfriend too...Hmmm

Soon we can create our own ICE CREAM APP right?

Got any great PARIS APPS PBers?

A BIG MERCI for buying books & stuff at PB! That's how we got this iPod thing - with award points.

iPOD TOUCH THING I think I Luv U!


Update:I found a book with BIG pictures, My iPod Touch(2nd edition) - they have lots of How-to videos here. Plus I'd set my iPod thing to ZOOM so I had do a 'RESTORE'-easy as tarte citron. We're cookin' BEAR et moi. Open Apps? - Open Sesame!

Ode to Printemps!

Last night French Girl and I went out to shoot the windows/les vitrines... Au Printemps department store was celebrating La Fete du Printemps... With giant floral bunnies... Floral swans...
In lavender no less...
And flower-headed Rockette Chorus girls...
Lined up...
In sumptuous rows...
A flower power couple even...
This flower girl succumbed to Spring Fever and fainted...
In a swoon from rose perfumes...
Hidden in ribboned boxes...

Suddenly behind us on boulevard Haussmann we heard a great WOOSH!
Hundreds upon hundreds of Parisien skaters took over the street in a woosh of Spring Fever!
One was decked out in blue lights!!


Then they were gone...
Ah, the ever present French escargot in luscious pink roses...
Don't forget Paris is laid out like a snail with the 20 arrondissements curling around on themselves and #1 at the center...

Et voila!

BONJOUR AU PRINTEMPS!

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