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Dining and Drinking: Don't supersize!
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  • Written by cherrybug on Jan 25, 2007
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  • In the popular tourist areas (e.g. Next to Notre Dam) there will be busy and bustling coffee shops. We jumped off the metro and headed into one for a quick coffee before we visited Notre Dam.

    On arrival the extremely over friendly waiter took our order for coffee. We told him we wanted two coffees. He reiterated to us - oui, two large coffees. we didn't click, he brought us two extremely large coffees (in a soup bowl sized cup) and an extremely large bill to accompany it.

    Surely the biggest and most expensive coffee I've ever had...

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    Nemorino Mon Jan 29, 2007 09:40 UTC
     The RATP, which runs the Metro system and the buses (and the new tram lines) also rents out bicycles at very reasonable rates. I hardly used the Metro at all last time, actually only once to go pick up my bike.

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