The more you know
Alexandre Dumas père, Victor Hugo and Emil Zola are all buried in the same cell in the crypt of the Panthéon. Foucault’s pendulum is creepy (the pendulum, not the book).
You need a credit card to use the take-anywhere drop-anywhere bicycle system. I’m sure it would’ve been awesome.
If you’re a student under 25, an ISIC gets you into most museums for free or almost free.
A French garden is the thing with long straight alleys of ginormous trees trimmed to within an inch of life. An English garden is the thing with grottoes and nooks and streams. Gardens are probably the only thing that the English make more pleasant.
Comfortable shoes matter.
There is an installation in the Louvre where someone put assembled jigsaw puzzles of famous paintings next to these paintings. This is more impressive than it sounds.
If all else fails, McDonalds has free wi-fi.
