The French Metro Strike in Paris

We've been here since Saturday and rode the Metro for the first time tonite. For one thing during the stike it's free. For another what they call a delay in train service is more like everything normal back in New York. A ten minute wait between trains!!! Quel Horreur!! So we took it to see Crazy Horse, no pix of that. But the most packed subway platform I've ever seen in Paris. When you board, there are eight seats that fold up in the entrance section of the train. It got kind of packed at one point and immediately everybody that had a seat on one of those folding chairs got up to make more room for the people getting on. I'd love to see that happen in Manhattan.


A random artsy image of sugar dispenser and counter in a cafe.


The Champs Elysses on a rainy night.