Ha!
So that will be a French reaction
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First of all, cool but few pics...
There are too many nice facades like this to refurbish.
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Originally Posted by jeremai
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Hopefully they'll finally clean it. Those who know the city also know how countless buildings of that kind are, many in good shape, many others that need more caring.
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Originally Posted by jeremai
These were taken in July 2011. The temperature hit 40°C the first day we were there and wasn't much cooler the second day. We spent a very noisy and sleepless night in a hotel with no air conditioning!
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Well, I suggest you to try a nursing/retirement home next time. Those are always very quiet and systematically air-conditioned for older people who can't stand heat anymore.
Or try a more expensive or more recent hotel, a random office building or a car if you seek something less grim and you're really air-conditioning addicted.
Sometimes foreigners (I mean some Americans) seem to enjoy thinking we're backward for not using air-conditioning as much as they do, which feels offensive to the terrible French pride, of course. I guess the main reason for that is that it is greedy for energy, thus increasing household bills. Maybe it's also a cultural/practical detail, as summer is often very hot in most US states, whereas weather is usually mild in France. Once while staying over there (think I was in Virginia then), I caught a stupid cold in full summer because it's merely freezing in their homes. They use it too hard, though.
I would add I've always loved the US and Americans. I'm always the first douche to defend them whenever they're too harshly critized over here, so I have a complete right to speak freely to you guys.
It may sound like a pain to many and I wouldn't like to appear a fierce green freak (which i'm not), still there are a few well known health and environmental issues about an extensive use of air-conditioning, at least given the current technologies, and especially when air-conditioners are not handled or maintained properly, when refrigerants are not recycled and so on. You'll easily find some documents about those issues if you're not aware and yet curious. Being confident in green technology & development progress, there's no doubt those issues will end up solved, though.
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Originally Posted by Okayyou
Did you have to sneak this one?
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Sacré-Cœur ceiling. It looks unusual, doesn't it?
Oh well, thanks for showing pretty hometown!