Chapter 341: Place de la Concorde

Walking out of the underground tomb, Di Wei took a deep breath first: "I swear to God that I will never come here again!

"Seconded!" Yang Meng nodded: "The smell in this is unbearable than the taste of the Paris subway!"

People with a good sense of smell really can't stand it when they go to the Paris metro. The first thing you get into the subway station is the strong smell of urine, and when you enter the subway, the strong smell of perfume and the pungent smell of body odor are mixed, which is really uncomfortable.

But does it smell better than the one in the Skull Tomb museum?

"You're so tasteless. Pan Peiyu pointed to a tourist souvenir shop opposite the exit and said, "Look at the souvenirs here, they are all bones!"

Yang Meng and Di Wei glanced at the tourist souvenir shop that Pan Peiyu said, and there were all kinds of souvenirs related to human bones in the window, T-shirts and handbags printed with skulls, and key chains of bone people------- and the most exaggerated thing is: there was also a one-to-one skeleton model of the whole person.

Di Wei's eyes widened when he heard this: "Don't tell me that you want to buy some bones and go back to make souvenirs!

How do you know that Pan Peiyu shook his head: "It's a fool to buy it, I went to that store to see it back then, and it's all made in our country." Let's just say that 90% of all the travel souvenirs you buy on the streets of Paris are made domestically. ”

What is the most common souvenir of a trip to Paris? It must be a model of the Eiffel Tower, and it is common to see people selling them on the streets, from keychains hanging from keys to large half-metre-tall ornaments.

And these things are all domestically produced. Many domestic tourists went to Paris and spent seven or eight euros to buy a key ring, which is so beautiful that they can return to China to see, the amount is two yuan on the stall, RMB, and if you really want to buy it, you can be cheaper。。。。。。

"Lao Pan, I regret listening to you!" Yang Meng looked helpless: "This is also boring, do we want to play to go to famous places to play? Go to those places that tourists must go! What is the Place de la Concorde, go to see the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, the Obelisk, the Eiffel Tower and other places." ”

After hearing this, Pan Peiyu sighed and said, "Really go to those places, Master, believe me, you will be disappointed after you go." ”

"Tourists should look like tourists!" Yang Meng said.

"Then let's go, let's go to Concorde Square first!" Pan Peiyu said.

In fact, many people have a misconception about the Gauls.

In fact, the history of Gaul is a 'history of struggle', although the performance during the Second World War was not good, from the beginning of their existence on this earth to the present, it is a constant struggle and struggle, and after fighting with outsiders, they will fight with their own people. Many people jokingly refer to the Gauls as the 'ancestors of the revolution'.

And the Place de la Concorde is a testimony to their struggle.

At that time, the Place de la Concorde was called 'Place Louis XV', and there was a statue of Louis XV on horseback in the middle of the square, which Louis XV built here to show his imperial supremacy.

As a result, the Revolution broke out, and the statue of Louis XV was brought down and a giant guillotine was replaced. Here he beheaded Louis XVI and more than a thousand members of the Gallic royal family. It was also renamed 'Revolution Square'.

After the royal family was purged and Gaul was formed in the era of the New Republic, the first leader, Dannon, was overthrown shortly after he came to power, and his head was beheaded in the Revolution Square, and Robespierre, who had cut off the heads of these two men, was also beheaded here a year later。。。。。。

Anyway, the Gauls are like this, whoever comes to the stage fights whom. Recently, for a long time, there have been a group of people wearing small vests fighting in Gaul, and when the epidemic was serious, they did not forget to come out to fight in groups.

However, Yang Meng and the others didn't know if they were lucky or unlucky when they came this time, so they didn't see this scene.

Speaking of which, Yang Meng is quite disappointed!

Later, the Place de la Revolence was rebuilt and renamed the Place de la Concorde, becoming one of the symbolic buildings of Paris. There is a very old structure here, the Egyptian Obelisk, which is more than 3,000 years old.

It was a 'gift' from the governor of Egypt to Gaul nearly 200 years ago------ when Egypt was still a colony of Gaul and was later snatched away by the corrupt state.

Now the obelisk of more than 20 meters is erected on the Place de la Concorde as a 'corona' and has the function of judging time, and has been erected here for nearly two centuries.

But Yang Meng was confused when he arrived at Concorde Square: "This is Concorde Square?"

Pan Peiyu smiled bitterly, "You will definitely regret what I said, now believe my words, right?"

Yang Meng nodded, he was really speechless now, the Concorde Plaza in the tourist atlas and the Concorde Square in reality are really two places!

In the brochure on the Place de la Concorde, there are obelisks, fountains, tourists。。。。。。 A look of good years. And the Concorde Square in front of Yang Meng is a different look.

When they came here, it was already dark, not to mention the pigeon droppings all over the ground, just the garbage and paper all over the ground were enough for people to bear, and there were many homeless people lying directly on the ground, and when they saw Yang Meng and others, they didn't forget to reach out and ask for money. ”

Pan Peiyu explained: "We're late now, there are a lot of tourists here during the day, and it looks like there are some other events held here. ”

"Well, I see. Yang Meng nodded.

There were a lot of propaganda posters in the garbage on the ground, and Yang Meng picked one up and looked at it: protesting against the reduction of public services and protesting against the postponement of the retirement age.

In the words of Pan Peiyu: Very good, this is very French.

"There are more homeless people here than I thought, and they're still young!" Yang Meng said.

He found a problem, there are not no beggars in the country, but they are generally disabled or elderly, but many beggars here are young, strong, young people with hands and feet. This is incomprehensible.

Pan Peiyu explained: "Master, it's not surprising, you didn't go to Germania, I found more when I went to visit Cologne Cathedral. The European side has good welfare. So life is much better when you are older, after all, there are welfare to take care of. However, young people have a hard time because they don't have employment opportunities. So there are more young beggars. Today we came out late, and we didn't go to any tourist attractions, you went to tourist attractions to see more. By the way, I forgot to remind you that in addition to more rats, more pigeons, more shit, and more thieves in Paris. All looked at their bags. ”

Yang Meng suddenly sniffed: "Why is it so fragrant?"

"That's true!" Di Wei also nodded, "This is the best smell I've ever smelled since I came out of that damn 'Skull Tomb'!"

A few people looked at it, and there was a row of fast food stalls on the side of the Place de la Concord. That's where the scent comes from. "It's Kebab. Pan Peiyu said.

"What is it?" Yang Meng didn't understand.

Di Wei said: "It's Turkish barbecue." ”

Yang Meng glanced at Pan Peiyu: "If it weren't for the fear of embarrassment, I would have beaten you." ”

"Why?" Pan Peiyu was puzzled.

"Why do you say? Let you drag English blindly!" Yang Meng said indignantly: "Let's go, I'm really a little hungry, go try it first!"

Pan Peiyu said: "Aren't you eating a Gallic meal?"

Yang Meng said: "Eat it is also me and Di Wei to eat, I won't take you!

Pan Peiyu: "。。。。。。 ”

In fact, Turkish kebab in Gaul is also a bit of a 'local'.

Why?

Although the kebab here is also a large piece of meat that is rotated on a rack and then cut off and eaten piece by piece, they cut a baguette from it and sandwich the slices of kebab between them.

The Gauls could do without anything, but they couldn't do without baguettes, which in fact means 'long strips of jewels' in French. The president of the people said that he would apply for the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity with the 'baguette'! Many military fans even joked that the most powerful weapon in Gaul was the baguette.

This Gallic Turkish barbecue also caters to the local tastes, sandwiched between baguettes and topped with tomato sauce and pΓ’tΓ©. It tastes like this。。。。。。 I can only say that it tastes good, but it doesn't smell good anyway.

Just a sandwich with a baguette of barbecue is 7 euros, a glass of Coke is exactly 10 euros, and a small packet of fries。。。。。。

Damn, it's not cheap!

It's no wonder that after returning home from living in a foreign country, I feel that the price is cheaper------ can I not feel that it is cheap?

He told Pan Peiyu what he thought, but Pan Peiyu said: "Master, this is a tourist attraction after all. Tourist attractions all over the world are the same, and prices are more expensive than anywhere else! Nowhere else is that expensive. ”

Yang Meng nodded after hearing this: "It's about the same, it's not that I can't afford to eat, it's really a little uncomfortable to spend so much money to eat such a thing." ”

Pan Peiyu said: "Generally speaking, a set of sandwiches, potato chips and cola like this is about six or seven euros. ”

"Oh。。。。。。 That's acceptable。。。。。。 What a fart!" Yang Meng's eyes widened.

"Master, can you use our domestic prices to measure foreign life. Earn here in euros. Pan Peiyu said.

Yang Meng thought for a moment and said, "Hmm。。。。。。 If I'm not mistaken, the per capita income in Paris is far higher than in the rest of Gaul, with a per capita income of more than 3,000 euros. That's not enough, is it?"

"Master, don't trust the data. Pan Peiyu said: "Have you seen that this is also the case in China? We are all the people who are 'averaged', you see so many unemployed homeless people on the streets of Paris, and elderly people who enjoy pension benefits, and housewives who are staying at home full-time, these people have no income but they are counted in the average. Some of the high-income people in Paris are like ordinary doctors who earn 10,000 euros a month. ”

Di Wei blinked: "But will high-income people eat this on the street?"

"Uh。。。。。。。 ”