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Re: [Spridgets] Paris Driving

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Paris Driving
From: Mike Rambour <lists@dinospider.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:50:14 -0700
  2 years ago my then 18 year old daughter got lost in Paris.  She had 
gone to a school event and then stayed with some friends until after the 
Metro closed (she thought it closed later), she thought she could take 
the bus to her hotel but again it was done for the night.  There is some 
limited bus system that runs after midnight in Paris so she called us 
(S. Calif.) on her cell phone in near tears as she was not comfortable 
on the streets of Paris at 1:30AM and VERY LOST.  My wife and I used 
Google maps and streetview to figure out where she was exactly and found 
the next bus stop quite a ways away and directed her on the phone, she 
got to some very dark area that she absolutely did not want to walk 
through and had to figure out a round about way.  Got to where the bus 
stop is and she could not see/find it, again Google streetview to tell 
her to look behind those 2 trees and finally got on the bus which took 
her within 3 or 4 blocks of her hotel. She was pretty scared and I guess 
we were too, but now we laugh uncontrollably when we think about that 1 
hour 9 minutes on the cell phone with google maps and streetview walking 
her home.  Ok, I only laugh until I remember that cell phone bill :)

  So my daughter would agree with you that some streets after midnight 
in Paris are awfully scary.

     mike

On 05/24/2011 02:54 PM, Kirk Hargreaves wrote:
> Nope.  . didn't drive in Paris or France.  . just got miserably lost one
> night walking back from a Paris jazz club . . got back after 1 AM.  And
> although hats off to my wife for being a big help on the trip . . she was
> determined that night to walk opposite the direction of our hotel room . .
> determined.  So rather than argue about it I told her, "Ok, we will walk
> your direction until you finally realize that we are going the wrong way."
> That was a mistake as it led to a miserable lost situation until we found a
> French police officer who, able to speak clear English and knowing the
> streets, was able to steer us back to the right direction.   The Paris
> streets after midnight, some of them, kind of scary.
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