Gare De Lyon, Paris, France
Leaving Paris this morning on the TGV to Nice. As nice as Paris is, it is mega expensive and more places than not are really grim. Most of the rail system, especially the metro, and a lot of the less touristy bits of town have a real graffiti problem, but I expect that's the same in lots of the places we're going to go to. We're sat on the top deck of this train, so we're hoping to get some good views of France. The station announcement jingle is very French - 1-...