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Re: Aren't you travelling enough already? (none / 0)

You know, I have spent 2h stuck in traffic with LEP once going to Geezer's boat so I would rather not go inside the peripherique with the van :-) There is public transport and I think we'll be there early enough for me to take a couple of hours to go visit Geezer and family and then meet the rest of you for dinner after you get out of work.

I have never driven in Paris so "almost as easy" for you translates as "worse than not-so-easy" for me.

But maybe you're right and the easiest thing is to park in front of Geezer's boat and leave from there. I'll ask Google Maps what it thinks about it tomorrow.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 09:25:22 PM EST
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Re: Aren't you travelling enough already? (none / 0)

There's no public transportation strike planned for Friday, unlike the last time you came... Makes quite a difference about Driving in Paris. And if you make sure to go through Porte de Bercy when going in, in the middle of the afternoon, you shouldn't meet much transit problems.

There stops my advice as I am not a driver myself...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 04:43:12 AM EST
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Re: Aren't you travelling enough already? (none / 0)

I'm having a really stressful day and I don't want to get even more stressed out trying to coordinate everyone's agenda so I am decreeing that I'll have dinner somewhere around 8pm somewhere around Bastille because I'd like to see Geezer and while going with him and back to La Defence was fun, I don't want to subject him to the ordeal of crossing Paris just to see me. I'm not that interesting.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 10:06:35 AM EST
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Re: Aren't you travelling enough already? (none / 0)

Driving in Paris is a doddle compared with London. Just make sure you have a map down to road name detail from where you arrive off the peripherique (make sure you know the porte name) through to where you finally leave. Having a navigator to do all your road name reading makes it easy peasy.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:56:46 AM EST
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