Word: parise
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These were all features of the Hotel Frantour, situated in Paris' slightly-less-than-classy 18th arrondissement. That would be north of the city's popular red light district, where only three nights later a bouncer offered to wave the fee if my female friends and I would accompany several...
The conference was definitely the most rewarding part of my spring break (I helped run a committee that produced a twice-daily paper about conference news), but I'd like to pass on a few tips I learned on our nighttime rambles through Paris.
Open all night and a great follow-up to beer and Long Island iced tea we drank at an American bar, the hot crepe with applesauce made me feel like I was experiencing Paris as...an American college student on spring break.
So Paris en bref: Take the cabs, they're likely to be Mercedes, go for random walks on sunny afternoons so you can get lost among the winding streets in old neighborhoods and, most importantly, always carry a map.
I'll be flying to Paris again this March for another HMCE. The group will no longer reside at the lovely Frantour, trading the city location for the more historic Sheraton a cote d'aeroport Roissy/Charles de Gaulle.