The subway in Paris

I have to say. I don't want it at all. I am used to the Bilbao subway. It's much much more cleaner, faster, modern, ... It's true, it's not the third biggest subway in Europe. And the bigger it gets the problems increase more than a lot.

If I have to make a comparison with the biggest subway network in Europe, I think it's Madrid. Yes, that's true. I do not like too much also. It's quite similar to Paris in almost everything. It's also slow, not clean, ... the only difference I see. Probably I am wrong. It's that transition times, let's say the time walking to change from one line to another in Paris is a bit bigger. In some cases I think I have to walk the whole Champs Elysees. But in Madrid you also have to walk a lot.

What I am wondering myself is, this subways have more than 100 years. So perhaps it's time to make a complete update. And when I say that I am saying in capital letters. I know we would be talking about loads of money. But I think this subway networks should be better. They seem as we were in the 60s or so. And we are not.

Flirting around

It's difficult you know. Here in Paris there a lot of people of very different cultures. I think you can find in less than 1 hour all the nationalities of the world, or at least almost all. And when you flirt extrange situations arrives.

The americans and the british girls are a bit cold. It's difficult to get feed-back soon. You don't know what's going on until the explosion. You don't know if she thinks you're a stupid man or you will be the father of her babies. That for a south european is not easy to get on.

The french girls I don't know. They are natural. In some cases to much natural. But they can also be very disgusting. Their humour is quite strange and at the first time a bit slow to get feed back. But once you get it you can have good time with them.

The chinesee girls are colder than ice cubes. Normally they distrut too much. When I say too much is too much. In that ambiance is difficult to start nothing. If you go over this rock you will probably see a vast thing. When I say thing I don't know excactly what I mena. A vast thing. Something big but you cannot explain properly.

That's are more or less my conclusions here. Which are yours??!

El digicode

Si no vives en Francia te puede sonar a chino. A mí de hecho me sonaba a chino. El digicode es una cerradura electrónica que se pone en la puerta de entrada de los edificios. Es un código de cuatro cifras que permite flanquear la primera puerta. Una vez superas esta se encuentran los buzones y normalmente hay otra segunda puerta con una llave al uso para acceder a la viviendas.

El digicode tiene una cerradura también para que el servicio de la basura, el de la luz, el del gas, el cartero,... puedan acceder al edificio sin tener que andar tocando todos los timbres y a su vez no tiene acceso a la viviendas.

En París la gran mayoría de los edificios tienen este sistema.

Francia se toma en serio las amenazas terroristas

En cada punto considerado estratégico de país está el ejercito. En La Gare de l'Est, en la Tour Eiffel, en Montparnasse, en el Arco del Triunfo, en los aeropuertos... y así en decenas y decenas de sitios el ejercito está presente.

Nunca tuve claro, si su presencia proporciona más seguridad o sirven para reconfortar a los miedosos. Particularmente pasear al lado de una ametralladora automática o de una arma corta no me hace ninguna gracia.

Los tiempos han cambiado y nuestras libertades son recortadas a medida que se producen nuevos atentados. No es una cosa de la que alegrarse.