For the first time in France - Part 3

THE FIRST TIME behind the Iron Curtain Part 3 In this part we will go about the whole day we spent at an amusement park Disney Land. As we have said, this is about the same copy of the American amusement park, built somewhat later than its predecessor. The park is located far beyond the outskirts of Paris, we traveled by train RER (see Part 1) more than an hour. At the same time crossed many areas of payment, for each of them with us counted to 8 francs. It turned out that the cost of road-trip commensurate with the cost of day ticket to Disney Land. To get to this interesting place without the help of a guide or taxi driver, was not enough to know at least some English. The fact that the broad masses of Parisians do not know English, and it does not particularly suffer from this. French like the French to a certain degree of fanaticism, in the best sense of the word. Therefore, our attempts to contact someone for clarification led to a stream of French language, which we could do nothing. We are lowing, nodding, showing location and direction of his hands on a map - all in vain. And not one word in English did not even serve subway. It was all strange to me, and I concluded that English-speaking visitors to Paris or the French themselves have studied or used the services of guides and interpreters. But in our burning flame travel into the unknown, so we were not going to refuse to overcome the difficulties. Decision came easily and unexpected. We began to seek assistance from the Parisians elderly. It turned out that most of them at least a few English words, but they know. And now begin to remember the trip to fairyland of childhood. That's what we saw at the entrance: I must say that the appearance of the park entrance immediately set the tone for our journey into the magical land of childhood. Let this childhood was basically not our own, although even in Soviet times sometimes brought from abroad gum showing good mouse, whose image on the label puts into awe of many Soviet children. And here, in Paris, we are in touch with the real embodiment of childhood dreams of the good and the good. And this story is embodied in a compact area of ??several square kilometers. Architecture Our Soviet fantasy ended on a scale PKiO, which for some reason everyone called the name of suffering Gorky. I never would have thought that in one place you can collect all the parks in Ukraine, and perhaps not only in Ukraine. And this is only a quantitative evaluation. The quality of the buildings even say nothing. Suffice it to look. I do not know what these buildings. Maybe it's just scenery. Indeed, around the whole area in one day is impossible, but perhaps that run and not hitting the rides. But what krasotishsha! Here are played and fantastic themes and topics XVIII ... XIX century, and Asian motifs, and the trend of development in North America. Why not ship on the Mississippi? Land landscapes is noticeable that many designers have worked on the design firmly into the earth's fairyland. We saw something like geysers with multi mikrovodopadami rocks from streams and some unimaginable terraces, high waterfalls, and various rocks and bridges across water obstacles. All of this was breathtaking and almost drove to madness. Separately, it should be noted numerous art lawns figured vystrizhennymi bush: And some of them were in the form of fantastic animals is how the face of this lawn looks a little fountain. Numerous ponds, artificial lakes with relevant thematic conceptual design of the coast of complementary land ensembles with great success. Here, in this pond, I would fish half with pleasure: And here reeds and, again, a small waterfall. You can sit in a comfortable alcohol-free cafes near the lake with a fountain. And if you dream a little, then the submarine of Captain Nemo takes you on board and carry away in the ocean depths, to fight with the giant squid and sharks. Are you afraid of the deep sea? Not a problem! Immediately near the airship is going out of its hangar and imbued with romantic travelers travels of Jules Verne. Oh, sorry only that the pirate ship was only a nose in the water, and then, in the small-premalenkom lake. Same feed was completely on the land: But it can climb up and imagine yourself filibusters. Fairytale mikrostrana I especially liked the idea to realize a miniature variety of fairy-tale motifs. Here is the beginning of this "presnovodnolodochnoy" fairy tale: When you view images, remember the tune songs by Natalia Koroleva "small country", it will reinforce the impression. There is nothing to tell, everything is visible in the photo. Boats on the fabulous river ride "self-propelled, in fact, the water is mounted pulley system with a strained over them with a thick rope with a leash. Each leash as hooks to fishing line fishing rod, attached a boat carried along in such a way "downstream." Impression of such a large man-made fairy tales were so strong that some of the details I have considered on his arrival home, displaying and printing the pictures. Attractions Myriad any different fun and aback by their otherworldly concentration is not allowed to capture the photo, many of them. And even then I knew that a dozen films, taken along for the ride will be insufficient, and therefore somewhat tempered enthusiasm when you click on the camera. So, do not hit the frame of Attraction "Wild Horse Indiana Jones", a type of "roller coaster". (However, to be precise, in the frame, this attraction is, but very far away, from box car of a train, which will be discussed later.) Feature in this case was that the whole attraction of the subject (namely, as a guinea vestibular patient I perceive myself) is going ahead with his back, thus there is more upheaval around the transverse axis. In addition, the attraction-slide, in which there are maximum overload, was under the roof of the dome here, so the frame got only his outer appearance. At the entrance to the attraction can be considered a stylized image of the gun by HG Wells, from which guests can be "shot" on the moon. Procedure was amused at the entrance. An employee holding a ruler in the form of letters "G". To her he measured out the undersized visitors. Children who are the crown did not reach the upper ceiling of the bar, the "flight to the Moon" is not allowed. And then we realized that we have a serious test. Even now, when yours truly was in Barcelona at an amusement park "Port Aventura" and rolled three times as much (last time in the dark) at the famous attraction "King Khan", after which, it seemed, my teeth may spontaneously leave for them to place in the gums, the "flight to the Moon" seems to me child's play. But then it was something! In pitch darkness, at about 100 km / h, "cradle" made unimaginable twists and pirouettes, right on the head unlucky passengers rushed the large and small asteroids. Overload the habit led to the fact that some "campers" were leaving the attraction with green skin. I assure you I am not exaggerating. Transportation Vacationers move through the park on foot. This is facilitated by a very judicious and compact arrangement of the attractions. However, anyone can ride a horse-drawn tram. Especially it is necessary to note the ring railway, which surrounds the area of ??Disney Land on the perimeter. The road was done in the style of the XIX century. Complement this design solution is the installation, specifically created along the way that passengers can enjoy views of the cowboy DHW. yard. Complements the cowboy theme kind of attraction "Horse Indiana Jones", which was already mentioned above. However, the creators of the road have not forgotten about the leitmotif of the park - fantastic. According to him, we saw from the window just such a cute song. By the universal joy, and railways, and horse tram is absolutely free, all included daily visits, as well as all other attractions. Rides under the roof of the most memorable "room" attraction was, of course, a flight simulator on a spaceship. Previously, we have heard about such things, but not supposed to be able to enjoy themselves this tehnorazvlecheniem. Already passing lanes, the audience begins to penetrate the fantastic spirit of "Star Wars". Here we have the famous vskryvatel alien door locks R2D2, a company with a "bespectacled" brother: Of course, it was impossible to do without a nice and direct-eccentric SiTriPiO: Sam attraction photograph did not, because it was in the dark on the screen. Actually, everything was like a normal movie theater. We sit in the chair, began watching the film. And suddenly a chair under me was going from side to side in time with the screen image. It turned out that when the viewer "sitting" in the spacecraft, he feels all the congestion, when the vehicle is accelerated to hypersonic speeds and slows down to stop. That words can not convey is the need to test myself. All highly recommend this attraction. Not for nothing rivals, the makers have already mentioned my amusement park "Port Aventura" made an analog of this attraction, but only on podvodnolodochnuyu subjects, and also completed the impression of dripping water on the audience when their snorkeling vessel has got a hole. " Just as the vacationers went on self-propelled boats and watched the fabulous landscapes, done "underground" attraction, where viewers go to special "trolleys" in the corridors of the Labyrinth, a fairy-tale characters and items are located in the lateral recesses of the corridors. Here there is a princess and a pirate captain with the prosthesis in place of hands, "heartrending" crocodile jaws, and mermaids, and Pink Panther, as well as unidentified characters: Very Bad magic lamp of Aladdin at a cute "ice" pedestal: we visited an indoor auditorium, in which actors played the music without words a "performance" on life in the jungle. But, in truth, the view we are not impressed. However, it was uncharacteristic feeling for this day. All we, the children of "stagnation," particularly liked the ways of dealing with multiple queues, which despite the bad weather could "brag" about every attraction. First of all, the organizing role played by special rail, formed a zigzag movement of passengers. On the one hand, this led to the fact that the queue was compact and not spread over the entire territory of the park. On the other, it was possible to clearly predict the time remaining to approach your turn. Left a good impression as a system of tokens that were issued willing servants of the park near many, especially near popular attractions. The meaning of tokens is that you can go favorite ride again without waiting in line. Some of the queue does not fit into the system poruchney.Naprimer, so looks all to attraction, which could take a ride on the train times, "Gold Rush" in California: In any case, it hinted at the special installation "workplace" gold: And here's himself "locomotive": Other interesting and unusual the end of the day when we were getting ready to leave, it emerged that in the park are racing. However, for us and remains a mystery who took part in these races and who won. We've only seen the audience: Of course, for a whole day walk, we had to visit and the more familiar institution, according to Lelik of "Diamond hands marked with the letters" ME "and" Jo ". Omit a description of the impressions of a remarkable plumbing, which, even by today's notions was megaperedovoy. Show only looked like a passage in that institution. In any case, suddenly one of the readers will be there to quickly find: Care and still come out of this tale proved to be difficult. Everywhere come across interesting things that engage the attention and not let go home. At one point we met like a spaceship promising model car "Renault": In another place we had to see the exhibition of achievements of the French Telecom. Unfortunately, it was dark and photo I did not. At the exit, throwing a farewell glance at this cosmic miracle on Earth, I took a picture of the entrance portal: When we got outside the park, we were surprised to find that he has a "satellite", but at a gourmet-entertainment-alcohol theme. On the other side of the entrance to the park was located quite a large restaurant and entertainment complex. Then for the first time you saw many attractions, is now popular and in our cities. Nothing to talk about them now, at least. Restaurants have been to all tastes. "Led" gallery we know already rumored glamorous restaurant Planet Hollywood. " At the entrance to the rope was suspended sculpture, more precisely, moulage, one of the owners - Sylvester Stallone. Obviously, the prototype is not in vain tried to mock, as empty seats in the hall was not and was not expected. We went ahead and entered the same in another restaurant, lounge which constitutes a kind of theater with multistoried balconies. On the stage continuous live music in the style of "country". In the same style has been decorated and the restaurant itself, and dressed waiters. People were very much, but because of loud music with no one able to communicate. After supper, we sat on the RER and reached the city. Disney day ended normally, however, after dinner we went for a beer at a cafe. It was said then in Paris were a few tens of thousands of similar institutions. And all of Paris is sitting in them and, by our standards, almost nothing has been drinking. I immediately liked the beer mugs volume of 1 liter, which in our area had not yet emerged. And I have never seen the French to drink from them. All enjoyed the half-liter. Moreover, it seemed to me that they are half-liter of stretched the whole evening. I, too, "the most-drinking nation." Wine in the cafe, we also never good not to try. Perhaps we did not go "wrong" institution. Another reason may be our weak English and zero French, so you had to constantly rely on the waiters. As for wine, we had yet another episode without interest. Deldo that. That one of my companions was a teetotaler. And he is somewhere I heard that France is on sale nonalcoholic wine. Imagine our surprise when we really were able to purchase in a store a bottle. On the label sported the number "zero degrees. The contents turned out to be preprotivneyshim sour compote. However, the non-alcoholic beer as I can tell you little good. After visiting the cafe, we then visited a video arcade, where lip service to the then cutting-edge gaming technology, and went to the hotel to rest. Start material: Read more: See also: The magical tale of real life