Sad as Paris is the experience of a lifetime. During my last trip in early 2006 I was riding the Metro one evening when two Muslims wearing backpacks entered my car. Despite the car being almost empty they stood in the corner and discussed things in Arabic. I got off at the next station and took an alternative route back to my hotel. I fully expected to read in the morning newspaper about a subway attack. I love Paris and the French people. Too bad a Muslim plague is infecting the country. Pray for France and that the spirit of Jean d’Arc and Charles Martel rise again to save France.
In that case, I’m glad I visited in the early 1980s before the big influx.
There were people from the islands there selling mechanical windup flying toy birds back then, though, saying “oiseaux, oiseaux”.