Sightseeing...
As requested by others, some pictues:
My search for a flatshare hasn't been successful so far. To be precise, very unsuccessful so far. The first site I knew of (colocation.fr) charges you revealing contact details. This works by text messages. But not by a single one, this one just tells you to send another. Then you receive a code which... doesn't work!
The second site (appartager.com) has:
- Expensive rooms (very common to Paris)
- Females searching female room mates
- Males searching female room mates
- Gay males searching gay room mates
Well, my internship starts in about 2 weeks. So I'm not short in time.
My other experiences consist of travelling to Vitry-sur-Seine by bicycle. I didn't believe it is that far. Unfortunately the weather is very hot. Will not do that again.
If you ever intend to travel by Metro, forget your bike. It is allowed, but simply not doable. You've got to lift it over the ticket-eating entrances. They really do eat tickets. They re-disappear after a couple of seconds, which you may need for lifting your bicycle up and down. The train staff wasn't very helpful either. The only one who spoke English was a little boy who was engaged to talk to passengers due to a rerouting.
But at all, people seem to be much more relaxed and prices are, expectedly, much higher than in Eastern Germany.