Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Au Revoir Paris
As we depart Paris I’d like to share a few of my thoughts on the city and our time here. The first is in regard to paying for public toilets. If people cannot afford to or choose not to pay for a public toilet they will not just not ‘go’, they will urinate in the [...]
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
Exploring the Louvre
Thanks to the Da Vinci Code, the Louvre has been shrouded in a mystique that has some poor wretches believing it holds the secrets to the holy grail, catholism and even God. Whilst Dan Brown is quite a story teller I think the Louvre is intriguing enough without the fiction and so I shan’t mention [...]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Notre Dame, Paris
The final Notre Dame on our list. Whilst it is by far the largest, it is not as ornate as the Canadian Notre Dame’s in Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec. We didn’t spend too much time here as it was a Sunday, Mass was taking place amongst the thousands of tourists who walked around the cathedral [...]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Voila Paris
After resting our legs yesterday it was time to put them back to use again. We joined a walking tour with a company that operates throughout Europe relying on tips alone. Darian, our guide, was taking his very first tour today and did an outstanding job. There are so many beautiful buildings, parks and monuments [...]
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
Salut Paris
After a 9 hour overnight bus trip (which included a rocky ride on the English Channel Ferry) what better way to recover than relaxing at the foot of Paris’ Eiffel Tower. Basically we sat down in this spot at 11:30 am and didn’t leave it till after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, oh except to [...]