I worked as a tour guide in Paris. Here are the 5 biggest mistakes I saw tourists make.

As a tour guide in Paris, I saw many tourists make the same mistakes.

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After years of living in Paris for school, I spent a year working as a tour guide in the city.During this period of my life, I spent a lot of time on top of the Eiffel Tower, inside the Louvre, and taking hundreds of tourists around Paris.However, I noticed that many tourists made the same mistakes over and over. Here are five of the most common missteps I noticed.

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