John W. wrote:

> I will be in Paris on Aug. 24th and 25th. Anybody have a
> recommendation for a decent, relatively inexpensive, yet secure (since
> I'll have my laptop) hotel/inn/hostel?

Do you have a set of numbers that "relatively inexpensive" falls 
between?  And, do you know enough about Paris to know about where you 
want to be located?  There are a couple of people I can ask but no 
guarantees that they'll have any ideas.

BTW, you DO KNOW that Paris is a stinking shithole in the heat of 
Summer, yes?  Something to do with the fact that everyone's back yard 
was a latrine for 1,800 years before they got plumbing and Ille de 
France is in some sort of geological situation like a huge rock soup 
bowl where everything that has ever died and fallen in the goop since 
the beginning of time has been preserved and rots slowly.

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CL