We met some really nice people in Paris and some not so nice. People seemed to be one extreme or another. The desk clerk at the first hotel we tried ticked us off by screaming “ you must remember you are in France now. We’re poor here, not rich like all you Americans.”
In Orleans we looked up the Army boys at the U.S. Army Hospital that we met in Barcelona. They got us each a carton of cigarettes for $1.50. We drove on to Versailles on the outskirts of Paris where we saw the huge Palace of Louis IIV the Gold covered gates, the Hall of Mirrors and Hall of Peace where peace treaties from the wars were signed and the table they were signed on. We found a little hotel on the Left Bank for about $1.40 a night. We later discovered that we were in the heart of the Latin Quarter in the Beatnik section. Is is an Ideal location, a block from the Seine.
We met some really nice people in Paris and some not so nice. People seemed to be one extreme or another. The desk clerk at the first hotel we tried ticked us off by screaming “ you must remember you are in France now. We’re poor here, not rich like all you Americans.”
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