Yaris and other Subcompacts of France (lots of pictures)

[auxmike]

Looks like you had a great time!
Paris looks very congested and a bit grimey.
I went to Barcelona in '99 to see family and found it a lot like your Paris pics. They put huge dumpsters curbside for residential garbage. The whole area smelled like garbage!
Parallel parking; looks as though they wedge each other in. I expect a lot of scuffed bumpers over there...

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by auxmike

Looks like you had a great time!
Paris looks very congested and a bit grimey.
I went to Barcelona in '99 to see family and found it a lot like your Paris pics. They put huge dumpsters curbside for residential garbage. The whole area smelled like garbage!
Parallel parking; looks as though they wedge each other in. I expect a lot of scuffed bumpers over there...

It was actually far cleaner than our cities here. The only stink we encountered was the street cleaners on the Champs Elysees. They have these mini garbage trucks that scoot around the wide sidewalks sucking up trash. When they cruised by you, you'd get the dumpster smell. Other than that, I found the streets and Metros to be pretty clean. Very little of the human urine smell, so prevalent in the NY subways.

As for the parallel parking, I don't think I could park a car where they do. And, yes, just about every car on the street has a chewed up bumper as a result.