Paris underground

The first few days we saw more of Paris below ground than above ground.  We had so many errands to do, that we spend most of the time figuring out the Metro.  We would pop up to visit some office or store, and then, like frightened gophers, scurry down again into a hole, only later to stick our noses up somewhere else.  The Paris Metro is a marvel.  It is a lot like the Swiss trains, and nothing like them at all.  It is much larger, much more complex and somewhat less logical (also not nearly so clean).  Even finding the platform of the train you want in a station can be a non-trivial task.  Silke and Jerome have prepared this short tutorial video of how to find the platform for line 4, direction Porte de Clignancount, when entering the Montparnasse metro station from the Bienvenüe Place entrance.   It sometimes seems that you have to walk further to find the train than you travel on the train!

Or here is the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4sYCa1_yk (The youtube video is higher quality than the above embedded video.)