"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote:
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> > > > 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.
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> How do you know what they think about it?
I would suggest that they thought about spending the time and money to make
the bus trip there. Since the buses stopped there and dropped passengers
they must have had some interest in it. If they had come earlier in the day
I might have thought that it was to walk up the hill to Montmartre.
> 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.
It's an interesting neighbourhood. It's somewhat seedy. There are lots of
cafes. I am not particularly interested in it. On my first trip to Paris
our travel agent booked us into the Mercure Monmartre which was more
Pigaille than Montmartre. There were some decent cafes in the area. It is
not all red light.
> 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...
I live close to Niagara Falls. I find the falls themselves to be beautiful
and the entire parkway very scenic, but I never go to the tourist
"museums".
> 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.
I can't say that the . shops seemed terribly busy. I didn't go in them.
The cafes certainly seemed to have a booming business.
FWIW, because of the reaction of one of our party to that part of the city
we changed hotels. I could have stayed there. We were across the street
from the Metro and could have been been in another neighbourhood in a few
minutes. |