Ahhh. Paris. The city of light. Cool enough, when we were there Paris was hosting the 2007 Rugby World Cup. One of our first outings we headed down to the Eiffel Tower. It was beautiful. Lit with green lights, one of the colors of the reining World Cup team, and bustling with tons of people. It was about 10:00pm and still there were many toursit milling about taking in the sight. As we aproached the base of the Tower we stopped and just stared. Looking up and down taking in as much of the full view of it as we could before moving in closer to head underneath. As we stared at the Tower it began to twinkle. Hundreds of lights blinking on and off. It took our breath away.
Under the Eiffel Tower.
The rest of our time in Paris was spent doing the tourist thing, Notre Dame, Versaille and the Louvre. Our hotel was in Bastille area. We did wander around the streets of our neighborhood a bit. Most people spoke only French, the hotel staff and a couple of people at a restaurant we went to spoke English, but that was mostly it. My extensive French 1 vocabulary was not useful here.
Outside of the Pompidou.
Gardens at Versailles.
Outside the Louvre at night and the Arc de Triomphe du Carousel.
On a metro platform.
I thought this was only an American thing. I think it says "Jews for Jesus".
That's the Mona Lisa?!?
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