Your comprehensive guide to DOING STUFF IN PARISHey guys!! So this is just a quick informational guide about how basic stuff in Paris tends to work, for people who haven't been there before. This is mostly based off of what I noticed when I was living there for a month this summer (as well as what I've learned for my degree, in the case of the clothing section), but if I'm incorrect/mistaken anywhere please correct me! ♥
( BUYING FOODCollapse )( PUBLIC TRANSITCollapse )( BUYING CLOTHESCollapse )Some other extra notes:
Most smaller stores
do not accept credit cards. You must use cash. Bigger department stores, supermarkets, and most restaurants will take cards. Restaurants generally do not like it when you try to split the bill and some places will outright not allow it.
Refills on coffee at cafés are not free, and coffee comes in a really tiny cup. :(
Pretty much every major monument is patrolled by military. They are pretty obvious, because they are the guys with the giant guns wandering around looking bored.
Here and
here are two a good, comprehensive lists of monuments and places of interest in Paris.