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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 at 05:01:58, Alistair McIndoe
wrote: And then you've got the double-decker trains that go under bits of Paris. RTAP or RER or whatever. Why does most of the Paris metro smell like a sewer? London's tubes don't whiff like that. I know Paris is marginally closer to the equator (and marginally further away from the Arctic), but is a climate difference to blame? Maybe a diet of snails, horsemeat and frogs' legs leads to more frequent methane emissions. It's certainly a distinctive smell! When I lived there, back in the 1970s, the central car on each train was first-class - I'm not sure when that was abolished, but it was quite a shock to the system to find it had been when we returned in the 1990s! Anyway, our joke always was that you got a better class of garlic-breath in first class..... -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 6 June 2004 |