<p>So I'm leaving tomorrow night for London with a group of classmates. After two days we're going to Paris, where we will spend a majority of our time, then Normandy. We're basically seeing all of the big sights... So any tips on what to watch out for, eating, packing, sights, shopping, etc. would be great!!</p>
<p>Yes although I’m probably not the best person to ask (see username for details)</p>
<p>I have been to London, Paris, and Normandy. PM me for more specifics. :)</p>
<p>Well it’s good to not be going in the summer.</p>
<p>In France, I’ve only been to Nice and Paris.
I won’t talk much about Nice, since you won’t be there, but it was basically the beach, the old town, biking, and the World Cup, which had it’s final while we were in the city.
We were maybe in Paris for the most time. Or maybe Rome. But anyway, we did the normal stuff, looked at Notre Dame, the Sacre Cur, the Louvre, la Tour Eiffel, Versailles. We didn’t do much shopping, but there are big malls. The Galleries at Lafayette, and we stayed near a bunch of nice shops, in the 8th arrondissement. I dunno. I would advise you to check out whatever you like best.
If I went back to Paris (actually, I did go back in December, but it was between the hours of 10 PM and 6 AM and, really, we were 20 miles outside of the city up near the airport) I would go crazy visiting every museum around. If that’s you, do that. The art is excellent. And don’t just stick to the Louvre and Orsay, check out the architecture as well. I would visit Sainte Chapelle, which, if the pictures I have seen do not lie, may be even more beautiful than St Peter’s Basilica.
But I digress. Just do what you like, and do all of the things you’d regret not doing. There seem to be a lot of flirty, impish boys around Sacre Cur, which is certainly fun.</p>
<p>I’ve only been in London for less than a day and I spent nearly the entirety of the time in the British Museum staring at lamassu and shedu. So, I’d recommend that, I guess. If I had been there longer, I… well, I probably wouldn’t have been there longer as I dislike London. But the museum is very nice and very free. I think we had plans to see the Tower or the Bridge or something, but we ran out of time.</p>
<p>^ Why I ask do you dislike London if you have been there only for less than a day?</p>
<p>^It feels just like New York. I hate New York.</p>
<p>I had applied to the SOAS, University of London and I just had this sudden feeling, of “this is New York. I could never live here.”</p>
<p>Why do you hate New York (my home haha)?</p>
<p>^^ Fair enough assumption for a brief exposure, although with more time you will realize to your pleasure that’s not true</p>
<p>^^I’m not much for many large cities.</p>
<p>^You’re probably right.</p>
<p>Oh ETA: I saw your post on the Chicago thread. One of my teachers used to dance with the Geoffrey, no joke.</p>
<p>^ OK London is a large city but it is far more spread out than New York. As for the Geoffrey cool! I like Geoffrey they’ve been doing a lot of modern stuff which is cool and from a composers prespective means that new works are actually looked at rather than discarded immediately.</p>
<p>anything else guys? :)</p>
<p>Prague > Paris. That is all. I don’t like Paris, but it might be because I hated French because I hated my teacher.</p>
<p>I have! …though it was in this small town in the French Alps (Chambery)… I was there on an immersion trip during my freshman year. :)</p>
<p>I’ve been to Greece multiple times = D</p>
<p>a few years ago, i was in london for 2 weeks straight.</p>
<p>& it rained for 2 weeks straight.</p>
<p>-_-</p>
<p>Sitting in an English garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come you get a tan
From standing in the English rain
© TCBH 2010</p>
<p>I’ve been to both London and France. I LOVED Normandy (I’m assuming you’re going to the beaches?). The cemetery there is one of the most beautiful but sad things you’ll ever see. It just blew my mind thinking about the sacrifice that occurred there, but then again I’m a history nerd. </p>
<p>In London I did a lot of military things (once again a history nerd) and I’m not thinking you would be too interested in doing that. If you are, you can ask though.</p>
<p>I live in New York and I go to Europe every year. I LOVE IT.</p>
<p>I’ve been to paris (most recently spring break 09, and I’m going back this summer) and all around france (in elementary school), including normandy. </p>
<p>the diet coke tastes 100 times better over there :)</p>
<p>I go to London for a month every summer. Nice place.</p>
<p>I always hang my head when a loud group of Americans walks by making fun of other people’s accents.</p>