FINAL TWO EPISODES!

Hausmann’s Top Ten Things to Do – and Not Do – in Paris

#9 – THE TGV

THE TGV, THE FRENCH BULLET TRAIN, has been clocked at 574.8 kilometers an hour.   We rode the TGV from Basel to Paris in 3 ½ hours – cool, sleek, comfortable, as the French countryside flew by, like a video on fast-forward.

On the way back, it was another story.  The ventilation system broke down immediately, and then the train mysteriously stopped for an hour.  We sweltered in hell all the way back to Basel.

Now I know what TGV stands for:  The Goddamn Ventilator!

The TGV nearly tops the list of things to do – and not do – in Paris.

But I’ve saved the best – and worst – for last.

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#10 – EXTREME MAKEOVER

NO TRIP TO PARIS is complete without a visit to a coiffeur shop.   Alas, we couldn’t afford a Parisian hair stylist.  So we did the next best thing.   We went to Cite de la Villette, the museum of science and technology.   And there, through the miraculous fusion of French style and computer technology, we got free makeovers.  Extreme makeovers.

I always wondered how I’d look as a blonde.  Words simply can’t describe my thrill – until I gazed in the screen.  A nouveau Hausmann.

Genevieve, tres jolie! Lincoln, you spike out, dude!   Isabelle, recharged by putting your slender finger in an electric socket!

Check out the pictures.  What’s your favorite?

And so our journey ends with transformations of mind and body.

Paris will change you, and you will never be the same.

We came as individuals.  We leave as a family.   United in hearts and hairdos.

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