To me, Rome comes definitively first in the comparison with Paris. Ok, I like being pompous too. Or do French have the copyright on pompousness?
I want to invite you to read these two posts (and the related comments) which I inexpectedly found very interesting:
Please do not hesitate to leave comments and opinions!
2 comments:
Your blog is hysterical. Thanks for linking my old blog, First Paris Then Rome. I have a new blog now: theglobetrotterparent.blogspot.org.
I have to say, having lived in both Paris and Rome, I really do prefer Paris (and I am not French). I prefer the wider avenues, the green spaces in the center (none in Rome unless you visit one of the big parks), the transit system, the River Seine. Rome is much better for food, though. I will give you that.
I see you prefer Paris, but what I expect from a town are places, monuments, cosy places, athmosphere. And I think you can find all of this in Rome. I do really think of Paris as of a highway, with those big, endless avenues leading nowhere, with no real attractions on the road, no monuments to admire.
French are so lost for monuments that they try to sell Tour Montparnasse as a monument!!! And when you climb to the top, what you can see is just roads, buildings. In Rome you can spot magnificent churches, archs, columns, palaces, the Colisee and the Vatican, etc etc.
Anyhow I appreciate your blogs and I'll come to read your http://theglobetrotterparent.blogspot.com/ very often.
Emigré
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