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> The weather is awful, it rains 40% of the days. According to Wikipedia [1] it’s only 30% (650mm/year, while it’s 980mm/year in Bordeaux or 800mm/year in Nic
by hk__2 12y ago
> The weather is awful, it rains 40% of the days.
According to Wikipedia [1] it’s only 30% (650mm/year, while it’s 980mm/year in Bordeaux or 800mm/year in Nice [2])
> the random brasserie is an expensive tourist trap
To be fair, a lot of “random brasseries” are pretty good, you can eat a good meal for €10 everywhere in the city.
[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_de_Paris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_de_Paris
[2]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_de_la_France#Donn.C3.A9es_climatiques_de_quelques_villes https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_de_la_France#Donn.C3.A9...
- carlob 12y ago> To be fair, a lot of “random brasseries” are pretty good, you can eat a good meal for €10 everywhere in the city. You'd have better luck with a random $3 slice of pizza in NYC IMHO. Don't get me started on the kind of lunch €5 gets you anywhere in Italy.
- Aramsae 12y agoWell, in France we don't have the culture of junk food and fast-food... If you want to eat that way you need to prepare it yourself, if not yeah you're right it's more expensive than NYC. But you should try a sandwich with a good baguette !
- carlob 12y agoI lived four years in Paris and the fact that junk food culture is absent in France is a myth! University cafeterias serve fries every day as one of the options and there are a lot of kebab places throughout the city, but mind you not a good pita with lots of salad, but a sandwich with a ton fries. Moreover I think a slice of pizza with tomato and mozzarella is not junk food. But maybe that's just me.
- reacweb 12y agoBy "junk food culture absence" in France, it means that junk food in France is most often very very bad.
- patrickaljord 12y ago> Well, in France we don't have the culture of junk food and fast-food Are you sure you live in Paris? Cause I see kebab and nutella crepes stands at every corner.
- maximem 12y ago10€ meal in Paris! First Price in Brasseries start at 12 / 13€ for a decent main course.
- patrickaljord 12y agoOnly if you consider a half unfrozen meal in the microwave to be worth €10/€13.
- fermigier 12y agoYou can have a nice pizza for 8-9€ these days in Paris, a really good crepe for 5-7€, tasty bo buns (vietnamese noodle dish) are usually less than 10€ in the asian neigbourhoods, etc.
- carlob 12y agoNo, believe me. If you think that the pizza you get for 8-9€ is decent, take the time, once in your lifetime, to visit Naples. There are a couple of good pizza places in Paris, but prices hover around 15€ per pizza.
- fermigier 12y ago1. What makes you think I have never been to Naples? I've actually been there, and many places in Italy, over the years. There are amazing places, and crappy tourist places, just like everywhere in the world. 2. I said "decent", not "outstanding". You can get decent pizze in Paris for less than 10€ in any decent pizzeria (there are some bad ones, just don't come back to them).
- carlob 12y ago> 2. Please, please tell me where they are! My email is hn_handle@my_employee and you can probably infer my_employee from my submissions :)
- afterburner 12y agoer, but Nice has almost double the average number of sunny hours per day. That's probably more important to perception than total rainfall.