Car drivers mental so it took the strain out of driving
Disadvantages:
Got lost could not get out of the station, no staff spoke English
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no
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The trains in Paris can be really confussing if you don't speak the language and don't know where you are going to. We stayed just outside Paris but wanted to visit the city for a day trip. Unlike our train stations the signs were really hard to follow, luckily going into Paris an English Gentleman realised we were lost and showed us which platform to get on and advised us which train was ours otherwise we would still be standing with our mouths open looking at the boards now. The problem really began when we went to get the train back to our hotel, we did not have a clue which platform and when we finally worked it out and got on what we thought was the right train, it got half way to where we wanted to go and then changed tracks, the train was very overcrowded and we were scared enough to start with, we promptly got off at the next station, my french is good enough to get me a cup of coffee and a pint of beer, but nowhere near good enough to understand what the gaurds were trying to tell us, we could not get out of the station because you have to put your ticket in a machine to open the barriers to let you out, with 2 children we were starting to get frightend, we eventually found someone who understood my English and French and made our way to the train that got us back to the hotel but I will never use the French trains again unless I know for sure I can get back again. I don't know if they run on time because the timetables were even harder to understand than the British ones. The way the car drivers and motorbikes use the roads over there it is a wonder that any English people go over there at all. I had to have a weeks holiday to recover when I got home.
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