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The beauty of Paris and France
America is my country, but Paris is my hometown. A beautiful country from the Alpes, to the Cote d' Azur, from Alsace to Biarritz to Calais, France offers yummy foods, magnificent art, wondrous countryside, history and amour.
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Welcome to The Beauty of Paris and France. I am the new manager. My late wife and I began traveling to Europe in1983 and have been to France in general and Paris in specific about 10 times. I love Paris, Terri loved the rest of France. Terri died in August 2007 after struggling with brain cancer. She was my co-pilot in life and my co-pilot when traveling...we drove from Germany to our hotel in Paris with her remarkable map skills...and we made it through the 12 lane Etoile round a bout and never got lost.
While I am in no way an expert, we traveled to many areas and I will be happy to answer questions, make suggestions and just write about the joys of France.
I will be returning in September to scatter some of Terri's ashes from the upper levels of the Eiffel Tower.
I will also post photos, menus and anything relative to Paris and France. I will begin working on a links file...I have way too many bookmarks and it will take a while, as I verify they are current, but all should be helpful if you are planning a trip.
Please share any experiences you have with the others in the group
This announcement will self destruct in about a month and replaced with something more relevant
This group is open to all ages, I expect all to be treated with respect and will allow comments and endorsements of items as long as they are not considered SPAM.
Merci
Steve
6 months ago
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getting excited
we are leaving wednesday night, sept 3, for Paris...going with my (and Terri's) best friend, to scatter Terri's ashes from the Eiffel Tower and Pont des Art
our itinerary (we have separate/together plans) include:
- Notre Dame
- Louvre...mostly my three ladies
- Muse d'Orsay...mostly Renoir, Degas, Monet
- Rodin...outside...only
- Versailles (Vicki)
- St Chapelle (perhaps evening concert)
- stalls along the Seine
- Père Lachaise
- Arch d'Triomphe...drive by
- Rue Mouffetard
- Trocadaro
- stroll the Ave des Champs-Elysees
- Bateau Mouche
- l'Orangerie
anything we've missed...I sure there are
we have an apartment in La Marais, on Rue Sabot
hope to take many photos and will try to keep a journal
steve
our itinerary (we have separate/together plans) include:
- Notre Dame
- Louvre...mostly my three ladies
- Muse d'Orsay...mostly Renoir, Degas, Monet
- Rodin...outside...only
- Versailles (Vicki)
- St Chapelle (perhaps evening concert)
- stalls along the Seine
- Père Lachaise
- Arch d'Triomphe...drive by
- Rue Mouffetard
- Trocadaro
- stroll the Ave des Champs-Elysees
- Bateau Mouche
- l'Orangerie
anything we've missed...I sure there are
we have an apartment in La Marais, on Rue Sabot
hope to take many photos and will try to keep a journal
steve
THE INCOMPARABLE CITY OF LIGHT
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Thank you to my friend Lydia at Planet Earth for sending this to me!
Thank you to my friend Lydia at Planet Earth for sending this to me!
Comforting: Blind Frenchman fined drunk driving
A blind Frenchman was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined EUR 500 for driving while drunk and without a license.
22 August 2008
NANCY-- A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined EUR 500 by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license.
The owner of the car, who was also drunk as he sat next to the blind man when he drove the vehicle, was given the same sentence and had his license suspended for five months by the court in the northeastern town of Nancy.
The pair was arrested on a country road in the early hours of July 25 by police who spotted their car zig-zagging suspiciously and moving at a very low speed.
The police were astounded when the 29-year-old driver informed them that he was blind. The police breathalysed the driver and his passenger, a 52-year-old photographer and found they had drunk twice the permitted level of alcohol.
"I really wanted to do it (drive the car)," the blind man told the court.
"I expressed this wish. He (the owner of the car) agreed."
The owner said he saw "a lot of happiness emanating from him" as he drove, adding that he had "one hand on the handbrake and one hand on the steering wheel" as the blind journalist drove.
"I was very concentrated on the road," he said.
The judge retorted that, as he was well over the legal alcohol limit, "that didn't make you a vey reliable monitor."
The blind journalist had previously driven on a closed circuit, an experience which he had recounted in a regional newspaper in an article which was accompanied by his photographer friend who was in court with him Friday.
[AFP / Expatica]
22 August 2008
NANCY-- A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined EUR 500 by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license.
The owner of the car, who was also drunk as he sat next to the blind man when he drove the vehicle, was given the same sentence and had his license suspended for five months by the court in the northeastern town of Nancy.
The pair was arrested on a country road in the early hours of July 25 by police who spotted their car zig-zagging suspiciously and moving at a very low speed.
The police were astounded when the 29-year-old driver informed them that he was blind. The police breathalysed the driver and his passenger, a 52-year-old photographer and found they had drunk twice the permitted level of alcohol.
"I really wanted to do it (drive the car)," the blind man told the court.
"I expressed this wish. He (the owner of the car) agreed."
The owner said he saw "a lot of happiness emanating from him" as he drove, adding that he had "one hand on the handbrake and one hand on the steering wheel" as the blind journalist drove.
"I was very concentrated on the road," he said.
The judge retorted that, as he was well over the legal alcohol limit, "that didn't make you a vey reliable monitor."
The blind journalist had previously driven on a closed circuit, an experience which he had recounted in a regional newspaper in an article which was accompanied by his photographer friend who was in court with him Friday.
[AFP / Expatica]
Improvised market in Paris
from the article: I heard the news on the radio this morning: "farmers are selling their products to Parisians on an improvised market on Place de la Bastille". I went there, thinking this was definitely photo worthy. And apparently I was not the only one to hear the news on the radio! There were several hundreds of people waiting in line to buy fruit and vegetables at a supposedly better price. In fact, I did not really see the difference (actually melons are even presently less expensive in the shop around the corner than there - 1,65 € against 2 €...)
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Bonjour tout le monde
This is an invitation for all you francophiles to join Learning French, a friendly group whose members enjoy communicating in French. You need not be fluent. A few words go a long way.
A bientot,
Danielle
A bientot,
Danielle
Spending August in Paris
from the article:
- This August I've decided to stay home and not stray from the city. Business men and tourists might want to do some of the things I plan to do because after all, as Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross sang in 1992, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." I'm not so sure but I'm certain I'll gain some new perspectives on life in the City of Light.
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- This August I've decided to stay home and not stray from the city. Business men and tourists might want to do some of the things I plan to do because after all, as Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross sang in 1992, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." I'm not so sure but I'm certain I'll gain some new perspectives on life in the City of Light.
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steve
from Metropole Paris
"Every year it's the same old thing. Pack, pack, pack – drive, drive, drive – unpack, unpack, unpack – and I have to light the barbecue!"
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steve
Rejuvenating on France's Wild Coast
From the New York Times Travel Edition
- ON a Sunday morning last June, the wind was howling across a craggy stretch of France's Côte Sauvage, or Wild Coast, on the tiny peninsula off Brittany called Quiberon. Standing in the wind, arms outstretched, my traveling companions and I had the sense we might blow out to sea, or at least back toward the pretty houses that line the seaside town of Quiberon.
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- ON a Sunday morning last June, the wind was howling across a craggy stretch of France's Côte Sauvage, or Wild Coast, on the tiny peninsula off Brittany called Quiberon. Standing in the wind, arms outstretched, my traveling companions and I had the sense we might blow out to sea, or at least back toward the pretty houses that line the seaside town of Quiberon.
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steve
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