Some random ‘building’? Sorry… not sure which one, but the entire city is lined with incredible architecture.
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Night bus tour of Paris (5/6) →
Night bus tour of Paris (4/6) →
Palais Bourbon! …oh wait sorry, wrong bourbon :( This is instead, ‘simply’ a government building.
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Night bus tour of Paris (3/6) →
Looking across the Pont des Arts (the famous bridges where lovers lock padlocks and toss the keys into theSeine) towards the Institut de France. An astounding feat of snap-photography from a moving bus with a tiny phone camera!
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Night bus tour of Paris (2/6) →
View across the Pont d’Iéna (that’s a Cap-i ;) over the Seine. Paris bustles by night!
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Night bus tour of Paris (1/6) →
Arc de Triomphe. Great wikipedia article on it… history, tomb of the unknown soldier, etc
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A glimpse of Paris by night →
Delightfully cool open-top bus ride. Total tourist thing to do, but Paris sure is b-e-a-utiful by bight. Notre Dame and the Seine. Of course.
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The Seine at dawn →
This one’s for Jesse (who’s currently on an expidition sharing Parkour in South Africa) who asked for more photos. This is a shot of the Seine near dawn as we were walking to Notre Dame (in Paris, in case that’s not obvious.)
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Familiar faces at the Louvre →
Liberty leads the people of France to victory; The Mona Lisa and her famous smile; The raft of the Medusa (a famous shipwreck); Venus sans her arms
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Sizzling hot in Paris →
We spent most of the day wandering around the Louvre which is sorta mostly kinda no not really climate controlled. Today I learned the French are straight-up allergic to air conditioning.
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French Bakery →
I have, apparently, died and gone to heaven. We were walking, and everyone going the other direction was carrying baguettes… hmmmmm, might be a bakery ahead. carbs. more carbs. ohmagerdCARBS!!
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