Of course, there are several ways that one can pass the time in a city like Paris. Museums, concerts, parks, the theater…restaurants, bars & of course, the monuments.
But, there is one tourist attraction here in the city that you will definitely want to include on your itinerary should you ever make the trip to the City of Lights: the sewers.
Yes! That’s right! The Paris Sewers – those dark & mysterious pipes running underneath the city channeling poo, urine & all sorts of other exciting unidentifiable objects & fluids nonstop!
Here is an exciting glimpse of what you’ll see:
I’m sure that many of you are thinking, “Well, gee…it probably smells like shit down there, doesn’t it?”
This is a sewer. It smells like shit. You are likely to make a funny face as an unconscious reaction to the overwhelming funk.
If any of you are fans of literature, then you will of course be familiar with the Victor Hugo saga, “Les Miserables”. The protagonist of our story, Jean Valjean, actually carried a dude through the sewers – so they painted a picture of it because…well, because why not class up a sewer with a painting of a famous fictional character?
There is one very important thing to remember before heading underground the explore the historic Paris sewer system: always dress appropriately.
“…Paris has another Paris under herself; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its crossings, its squares, its blind alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is slime, minus the human form.”
– Les Miserables, Jean Valjean; Book II, ch.1