[Georges V]

3 la_gargouille LOUL Mimas			0

I'm just genuinely really interested in what's down there and I was hoping someone would be able to join me since I think it would be disrespectful for me to go walking around somewhere sacred like this alone.

Quite the contrary. It doesn't belong to anyone, so feel free to go and explore by yourself.

I just want to experience the lesser known part of the catacombs history, since you are all the experts I thought it best to ask here.

Imagine I'm really interested in seeing an OR from the inside. Do you reckon I could just register on a surgeons' discussion board and offer them 20 quid to be allowed to watch while they perform open heart surgery? Could you conceive that I'd be receiving rather unimpressed answers to such query?

What you haven't thought through is that as a foreign element, you'd be perceived as an intruder, a nuisance, dead weight one has to carry around for no good reason. Other than you wanting to see the place.

See, I'd love to have a Porsche. I've asked millionnaires to gift me one, but they refused. Because they didn't see what was in it for them.

And that, young fellow, is about the situation you're in. You're telling us what you want so dearly, but you haven't bothered doing your homework and researching what levers to pull to get a fighting chance of getting a positive answer. With that much known about your attitude, why on earth would we want to drag along someone who is primarily self-centered and too lazy to care? Rite, the mullah. Coz you'd be willing to sweeten the deal. Sorry to disappoint:

I didn't mean to come off as if you're a touristic agency. I'm also happy to pay for your time as you will be guiding and I don't expect you to do that for free

In my line of work, a freelancer's going rate is around 700€ per day (i.e. 6 hours).

But as you say, we're not tour guides, indeed. Being under alone and being left alone are invaluable. And precisely because of that, any asking price will be more than what is customary in the industry. Consequently, it is unlikely that you'd have the kind of money that would make up for the burden of having a teenager tag along and have their mouths work non-stop to express overly eager comments, only second to a constant flow of questions we've heard a thousand times.