@estebantony They play various jingles on public transport. It's kind of cool and yet a tad spooky. But, really, what else should they do? Maybe have Gregorian chants? They actually did that in Saint-Denis and I dunno why it stopped. It was definitely atmosphere. It is funny, you hear these jingles and this weird voice tells you you are screwed, there is no train! xo
I had to take this train to and from the Mairie de St. Ouen station last summer and I only ever got on the wrong train once! I'm quite proud of that. But I do agree that the train was always extremely crowded and when I go back to Paris I definitely won't be staying in that area again. To be honest, the area wasn't so terrible even though its reputation isn't the most pleasant. I did see a mother allowing her child to pee in front of the metro stairs, however. What can ya do, eh?
@KillBorn88 I don't know why mothers do that! It really sets a bad example. That area of Saint-Ouen, especially around the Garibaldi métro, is quite sought after, believe it or not. The 13 métro is the most-used in all of Paris and it's old & badly run. We complain year after year, to no avail. I have at least one clip of the F1 hotel in Saint-Denis on Avenue Lenine which is a no-frills wonder, and I take the 153 bus to Porte de La Chapelle and pick up another métro there to avoid the 13.
@slobomotion Oh is it? I was told by quite a few banlieusards that St. Ouen wasn't so great and that it would be hard for me as a female to live there alone. It was only for about 6 weeks so I guess I may have never gotten the "full" feel of it but a lot of French are really elitist and I've never been one to look down on people as it is.
@KillBorn88 All I can say is that I would live around Garibaldi in a heartbeat. I had to go there often for administrative boring stuff & I got to see daily life there, the street market, I had to learn how to take the public transport there, & it is a winning area, as vibrant as NY's old East Village. It is incredibly hard for a single female or anyone to come here & live & make a life, so you were not ill advised. I can steer you to jobs here for example but they will only be part time!
@slobomotion As for the public urination, nearly all of my male Parisian friends did it along with a few female friends quite shockingly. Of course, they weren't nearly as blatant as the little boy in front of the metro. It wouldn't even be necessary if they didn't drink so much but Hell has yet to freeze over so Parisian streets will reek of urine for years to come.
That's weird. Line 7, that cuts through Place Monge where my family had an apartment at one point, splits two directions as well towards Ivry and Villejuif (yellow/blue as well), and there you can see those rectangles on the sides of the train, in addition to inside the train , illuminate very clearly either yellow or blue. I can actually see outlines of where those signs should be on the side of the train, at 2:37 in the upper-right corner for one.
@yabbaguy Yes, the first five months I lived here, I was "sheltered" in the apartment of my husband's family in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, so took that train. They never gave me the key to the place and wouldn't attend our marriage at La Mairie. We had to get a couple of strangers I scared up to be witnesses. That whole area around Place Monge is so cool. I have lots of videos up of it. I have another channel here on YouTube, also. And I do Dailymotion. xo
"C'est pas évident!" lol. And if you take the wrong train and arrive in Asnières-Gennevilliers instead of St Denis, "c'est la cata'; meaning "la catastrophe". This is one of the expressions that came into existence while I was living in the USA.
@Khamomil Yeah, that's a cool one, la cata! It used to kind of annoy me the way they'd chop off words, such as le dico for dictionary, but what the hey. I've taken the wrong train at least once. There's a huge distance between La Fourche and the first stop to turn around at. Yecch. They're building a tramway out there but I don't know if there were even still be a world as we know it by the time they finish that!
@carefulcarpenter This is pretty close to Le Moulin Rouge. There's nothing much upstairs here but a huge intersection, but the Montmartre big cemetery is nearby and it's cool to see this highway cutting right over the sepulchres. (There's a tiny cemetery up on Montmartre itself but it's hard to locate without a map.) I don't like Pigalle but it brings back memories, cuz above this station is where I decided to come live here! How are you?
)))))))))))) toi regole ou qoi?????????????? :D
MaxDiesel87 1 month ago
@MaxDiesel87 Ben ... j'y pas.
slobomotion 1 month ago
love the little song at 0:28 i was in Paris about 15 days and i heard a lot of times =)
estebantony 9 months ago 3
@estebantony They play various jingles on public transport. It's kind of cool and yet a tad spooky. But, really, what else should they do? Maybe have Gregorian chants? They actually did that in Saint-Denis and I dunno why it stopped. It was definitely atmosphere. It is funny, you hear these jingles and this weird voice tells you you are screwed, there is no train! xo
slobomotion 9 months ago
I had to take this train to and from the Mairie de St. Ouen station last summer and I only ever got on the wrong train once! I'm quite proud of that. But I do agree that the train was always extremely crowded and when I go back to Paris I definitely won't be staying in that area again. To be honest, the area wasn't so terrible even though its reputation isn't the most pleasant. I did see a mother allowing her child to pee in front of the metro stairs, however. What can ya do, eh?
KillBorn88 9 months ago
@KillBorn88 I don't know why mothers do that! It really sets a bad example. That area of Saint-Ouen, especially around the Garibaldi métro, is quite sought after, believe it or not. The 13 métro is the most-used in all of Paris and it's old & badly run. We complain year after year, to no avail. I have at least one clip of the F1 hotel in Saint-Denis on Avenue Lenine which is a no-frills wonder, and I take the 153 bus to Porte de La Chapelle and pick up another métro there to avoid the 13.
slobomotion 9 months ago
@slobomotion Oh is it? I was told by quite a few banlieusards that St. Ouen wasn't so great and that it would be hard for me as a female to live there alone. It was only for about 6 weeks so I guess I may have never gotten the "full" feel of it but a lot of French are really elitist and I've never been one to look down on people as it is.
KillBorn88 9 months ago
@KillBorn88 All I can say is that I would live around Garibaldi in a heartbeat. I had to go there often for administrative boring stuff & I got to see daily life there, the street market, I had to learn how to take the public transport there, & it is a winning area, as vibrant as NY's old East Village. It is incredibly hard for a single female or anyone to come here & live & make a life, so you were not ill advised. I can steer you to jobs here for example but they will only be part time!
slobomotion 9 months ago
@slobomotion As for the public urination, nearly all of my male Parisian friends did it along with a few female friends quite shockingly. Of course, they weren't nearly as blatant as the little boy in front of the metro. It wouldn't even be necessary if they didn't drink so much but Hell has yet to freeze over so Parisian streets will reek of urine for years to come.
KillBorn88 9 months ago
That's weird. Line 7, that cuts through Place Monge where my family had an apartment at one point, splits two directions as well towards Ivry and Villejuif (yellow/blue as well), and there you can see those rectangles on the sides of the train, in addition to inside the train , illuminate very clearly either yellow or blue. I can actually see outlines of where those signs should be on the side of the train, at 2:37 in the upper-right corner for one.
yabbaguy 9 months ago
@yabbaguy Yes, the first five months I lived here, I was "sheltered" in the apartment of my husband's family in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, so took that train. They never gave me the key to the place and wouldn't attend our marriage at La Mairie. We had to get a couple of strangers I scared up to be witnesses. That whole area around Place Monge is so cool. I have lots of videos up of it. I have another channel here on YouTube, also. And I do Dailymotion. xo
slobomotion 9 months ago
"C'est pas évident!" lol. And if you take the wrong train and arrive in Asnières-Gennevilliers instead of St Denis, "c'est la cata'; meaning "la catastrophe". This is one of the expressions that came into existence while I was living in the USA.
Khamomil 10 months ago
@Khamomil Yeah, that's a cool one, la cata! It used to kind of annoy me the way they'd chop off words, such as le dico for dictionary, but what the hey. I've taken the wrong train at least once. There's a huge distance between La Fourche and the first stop to turn around at. Yecch. They're building a tramway out there but I don't know if there were even still be a world as we know it by the time they finish that!
slobomotion 10 months ago
Cool station and train!
carefulcarpenter 10 months ago
@carefulcarpenter This is pretty close to Le Moulin Rouge. There's nothing much upstairs here but a huge intersection, but the Montmartre big cemetery is nearby and it's cool to see this highway cutting right over the sepulchres. (There's a tiny cemetery up on Montmartre itself but it's hard to locate without a map.) I don't like Pigalle but it brings back memories, cuz above this station is where I decided to come live here! How are you?
slobomotion 10 months ago