On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Misha Koshelev misha680@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking to book tickets soon and was wondering if there are good times to arrive and come back. For example I like Paris and would not mind arriving on Thursday and leaving perhaps Monday morning or late Sunday but I don't know when others plan to arrive or leave. Do these sound like reasonable dates?
I dont really know anyone in Paris so I don't want to be there all by myself.
I was somewhat foolishly hoping to rope a few people into renting bicycles and doing a day tour somewhere the day before Wineconf. Haven't thought it through yet, though.
For what it's worth, the city has cheap bike rental stands all over, http://www.velib.paris.fr/ though the bikes are said to be heavy, and you have to use a credit card *with a microchip* (US ones lack them) to rent there. - Dan