[Healeys] travelling assistance in France

[robertduquette at sympatico.ca]

Salut Derek!



To me, that's no joke ( but funny, none the less :) ).  Believe me, that does
concern me!  I think what happened is that the plan changed somewhere along
the line and instead of meeting in Lyon, now they're meeting in Paris.  When
he went to change the ticket, the price had changed in a very inadvantageous
way for him and it's much cheaper to take the train.  I'll find out later what
happened.  I'm sure that there's a lesson to be learned here somewhere.



If he can get from Lyon to Paris and meet with his 'friend', then I'll be less
concerned.

Robert Duquette ( My mother's name was O'Reilly and my father's mother's name
was Keenan! And that's my excuse! :) )
Ottawa ON Canada





Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:28:40 +0100
Subject: Re: [Healeys] travelling assistance in France
From: derek.c.job at gmail.com
To: robertduquette at sympatico.ca
CC: healeys at autox.team.net

Hi Robert,

I can see why your son might need some travel tips- he's going to Paris - but
booked a flight to Lyon!!!

Just joking.

I lived in Paris for 5 years and loved it all. I agree with the comments Kees
made. Get the TGV to Paris then travel around on the metro. It's cheap, clean,
easy to understand and very efficient with lots of trains going everywhere.

What I learnt very quickly is that if you want people to help you then make an
effort to go through the prelimenary courtisies. In practice that means before
asking any question you must first say, at the very least, Bonjour Monsieur,
Bonjour Madame. If you know a bit more polite French then that's even better,
but don't miss out the formalty. It's considered very rude to just start
talking to somebody.

salut

Derek


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:31 PM, <robertduquette at sympatico.ca> wrote:

Hi!



My son is going to Paris over the Christmas holidays.  Unfortunately he
booked
a flight to Lyon when he should have gone direct to Paris.  Now, he's looking
at taking a train from Lyon to Paris.  Does anyone on the list have any
helpful information on how to get around there?  Including how well the
French
understand English? :)


TIA!


Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
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