WHAT PARIS, really? (Continued, p.2) In almost all restaurants have menus in English - is the number of tourists requires, but sometimes it's better to look at the original. If the "master's course" or "wine of the house" yet can somehow figure out how to be a "raw vegetables, which are, in fact, nothing but a" fresh lettuce "? Mayonnaise is transformed into "the beaten eggs, and potatoes, steamed, may call the menu" evaporates potatoes. " In general, the space for imagination, as you see there. Typical Parisian cafe Another is to say a few words about the toilets. First, the French word "toilet" is always used in the plural, which can not but wonder - why so, if the "lavatories" - is one frighteningly small cabin, located right in the middle wobbly, precarious-looking and scary narrow spiral staircase? In addition to all the horror (not to mention the smell), you must have a coin to open the door to this hell of a cesspool. Inside you will find a new shock - a hole in the floor and dirty chain to drain the water. The latter is always spill during unloading, and your shoes get a drop of water, urine and anything else that tells you your imagination. So look outside toilets of Paris Parisians are not rude, just have a different idea of ??what is polite. We English, we believe that the waiters, shop assistants, bartenders and others like them to be polite to identify and take it for granted. Parisians - no. Moreover, they may find this behavior subservience. The waiter in Paris will take your order, will give the right dish to the right person, and even remember which one of you ordered a steak with blood, and someone (oh, horror!) - Well done. But he will not talk to you "is not the case, will not be happy to list all the menu items and offer meals, and will not allow you to make changes in the composition of dishes. No matter how gentle and nice you tell him they would prefer gratin with salmon instead of the proposed green peas - you will immediately understand clearly that the meaning of life waiter not to fulfill any visitor's whim. Your wish for him is not the law. If you smile at passers-by in Paris, you are likely to be a idiot, or worse - turn to the police with the accusation of sexual harassment. People in Paris, smile at each other only when they want to meet in a nightclub, or already lying in bed. With us, if you accidentally pushes a neighbor on the bus, you're cute smile and say "Excuse me" without even thinking of the fact whether you are guilty of something (think I've even apologized to the puddle, which has come) . If in the Paris metro man says "sorry", he literally said that the incident is to blame only him, and nobody else, and his side can sniff contemptuously, accompanied by a very pout. Needless to say, that smile will be here very very inappropriate. I have taken years to get used to this social features, and many times I stepped on the same rake. But now, when the subway accidentally fall on some beauty to me is not difficult to immediately turn away and pretend that nothing happened. No apologies from my side, and appeals to the police - with her. Everybody is happy. Metro in Paris, but with all this, in Paris, decided to keep the doors open to the people, and it is sacred. This gesture of politeness sometimes can be annoying. Imagine: you go home tired after a hard day in the hands of your case and has a whole bunch of bags with purchases. And then you notice that the front, two hundred meters away, someone holds a door for you underground. And rather than continue to trail a snail's pace, as required by your package, you speed up the move - do not want to seem ungrateful bastard. So, you do not have time to wheeze its "Mercy", as you can see what's behind someone has too hurried to the door, hung with shopping, and your turn has come to represent the butler. But do not think Paris is bad. I live and work in this city for twenty-five years and would not trade it for anything in the world. Paris is magnificent and beautiful, and walking on its wide boulevards and narrow cobbled streets - the pleasure that you can not experience anywhere else in town. There are more statues and museums than any city in the world. Despite the popularity of McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants in Paris is full of wonderful traditional pubs and bistros that are on every corner offering an affordable delicious food and great wine. And there reigns a special wonderful atmosphere (well, not look back sullen waiters and dangerous toilets). Start material: See also: first, there selilas know, then the lower classes, but today the Jews live a worthy replacement of Montmartre and the Place Pigalle for the first time in France, most beloved of mankind city
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