Tips to saving money while in Paris.

[useful...@yahoo.com]

For travelers, expats, conference-goers etc.
A guide to frugal living in Paris.

http://home.comcast.net/~zilax/paris.html

[Knight Of The Road]

<useful...@yahoo.com> wrote

> A guide to frugal living in Paris.

Reading George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" is more
enlightening ;-)

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[Knight Of The Road]

"Magda" <he...@keepthis.hu> wrote

> I love this book! :))

Me too.

When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I often
spent days without eating because of want of money.

I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"- in
London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street, exactly
as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike to spike.

"Down and out in Paris and London" is a fascinating and easily-readable
novel and I'd recommend it to anyone.

[George Grapman]

Magda wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:10:17 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Knight Of The Road"
> <russiat...@hotmail.com> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
>
> ...
> ... <useful...@yahoo.com> wrote
> ...
> ... > A guide to frugal living in Paris.
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ... Reading George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" is more
> ... enlightening ;-)

>
> I love this book! :))
>

I read that book at a very low point in my life. It put things in
perspective.

[Runge3]

Boring life

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[Down and Out in Paris and London]

>> I love this book! :))
> Me too.
> When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I
> often spent days without eating because of want of money.
> I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"-
> in London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street,
> exactly as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike
> to spike.

I spent one night in Camberwell spike and it hadn't changed much from
Orwell's description of forty years earlier.

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[Knight Of The Road]

"Magda" <he...@keepthis.hu> wrote

> Alas, I'm afraid that living in such squalor contributed to shorten his
> life... :(

I'm not so sure- Orwell *was* an Old Etonian and there is always the feeling
that he could have pushed the "stop" button whenever he chose.