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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Floating the Seine

30 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by Louise in Travel

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Bateaux Moches, River Seine

Bateaux_Mouches_Paris_2011-sThe River Seine is loaded, these days, with floating restaurants and other giant touring crafts. I asked my Paris friend Cathy Nolan which of the boat tours would be best, and she steered us to the original Bateaux Mouches, ginormous barges with hundreds of seats that cruise the river all day, and into the night.

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The Perfect Parisian Day

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Tom in Gallery, Travel

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#69 bus, Eiffel Tower, Paris

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Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Click for extreme enlargement with landmarks.

Yesterday was a perfect day … as perfect as a day gets. It helps, of course, to have spent it in Paris.

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You’re in the Wrong Rodeo, Cowboy

11 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by Louise in Gallery, Travel

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Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris

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The last time I saw the Avenue des Champs-Élysées (maybe 30 years ago), it was lined with stores that were terrifying to the average tourist. Designer boutiques, purveyors of Rolexes, Tiffany, and Cartier, all in little polished box stores with no excess of stock visible, attended by lean chic Parisiennes wearing dark suits, dark hose, and needle heels, plus that particular Parisian frown that signals that you’re in the wrong rodeo, cowboy.

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Phameras

04 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by Tom in Sidebar

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Paris, Phone camera

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Louise’s phone photo of Venus de Milo statuettes at the Louvre gift shop

We have been blogging since 2011—five years. During that time I have purchased four cameras for use during our travels, and sold three of them. I may be about the sell the other.

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Paris Up in the Air

02 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by Louise in Travel

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panorama (Small)

Looking down the Cours la Reine from atop the wheel at the Tuileries. The Eiffel Tower is on the left, the River Seine, the Grand Palais (glass roof), and on the far right, at the end of the Champs de Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe.

To be in Paris for a month with no plans is something like gazing over a 26,000-acre box of chocolates. You won’t get to them all, but no matter where you start and where you go, it’s going to be delicious.

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