Dave Smith wrote:
> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Your interests are not really important,
> >
> > To the contrary, this is a newsgroup where people share their interests
> > all the time.
> >
> > > but the scores of tourist
> > > buses that line Boulevard Clichy suggest it is a major tourist
> > > attraction.
> >
> > So, it's worth seeing because there are scores of tourist buses there?
> > Well, uh, it _must_ be interesting then.
>
> It is certainly interesting to the people who come by bus.
How do you know what they think about it?
My question is what is interesting about it? I've been to Paris several
times, including taking people with me for their first time, and they've
often wanted to go there, and I've never understood why. My grandparents
went to a show at the Moulin Rouge, and other than the fact it was the
Moulin Rouge, nothing they ever said about it indicated they had much
interest in it.
Madam Tussauds is one of the most visited attractions in London, and I
think it's worthless. Is someone here seriously going to argue that it's
a great attraction? I don't think that popular attractions are
inherently uninteresting- just that some of them are. And I don't see
the attraction to Pigalle...
If . shops are the pull here, then I'd have thought that gawking at
the . workers in windows in Amsterdam's red light district were an
"attraction"- not looking at ". shop" signs outside a building.
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