 | Bonny Scotland meets Gay Pariee
2008-04-21, Paris, France. By: travelalex | | When trying to sum up what a wonderful time I've had in this country, the first thing that springs to mind is the immeasurable pain I'm in following my wisdom tooth removal. The process however, did ... |
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 | Mace in the Face, the Olympic Spirit
2008-04-10, Paris, France. By: travelalex | | The Olympic torch relay met heavy protest in London, and knowing Paris' love of protests, figured it would be no different here. Nor did the police, sending out 3,000 coppers on horse, foot, motorbik... |
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 | rice paper illumination
2008-03-08, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | A walk in the forest became a beer in an English pub with Peter. After stumbling upon Andy watching Rugby, we invited ourselves to dinner at Stephanie's. How we ended up dancing to Diana Ross and the ... |
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 | Easter Octave '08
2008-03-23, Paris, France. By: slaveofihs | | *** All ads surrounding my journals are automatically generated by Google, not me! I have no choice of what is displayed since I don’t run this website, I only use it to post journals and pictures. **... |
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 | Being Anton Ego for a night
2008-03-22, Paris, France. By: travelalex | | Tonight Chloé and her mother wanted to eat some meat, so I went downstairs to grab a pizza. I decided not to go to the place I ate at last time, their four cheese pizza had just a few too many cheese... |
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 | Flea markets and Terroists
2008-03-05, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | I ventured to the outskirts of Paris to experience the Marché aux Puces with my undercover fascist friend, Peter. He taught me that you can find everything you need to be a terrorist at a Parisian fle... |
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 | The bees are tasting Spring
2008-03-03, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | Every pink petal, bright ray of sun, and pregnant drop of rain is a honeyed bread crumb leading bees to the paradise of Spring. This isn't just a quiet change from winter to summer. This is exploding-... |
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 | Rolling without brakes
2008-02-24, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | Every Sunday swarms of Parisians slip on their roller blades and take to the streets like a gang of early 90s fitness fanatics with their spandex, knee pads, and boom boxes strategically strapped on f... |
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 | I love Paris in the winter!
2008-02-11, Paris, France. By: sherridan | | Well we just can't seem to stay away from France and so, just three months later, Rob and I are back here again for a petite interlude. Rob's reason was to once again attend Retromobile, apparently a ... |
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 | I love Paris
2001-09-04, Paris, France. By: christykai | | I love Paris in the Springtime! Wait it's Fall and it's cold and rainy and absolutely fabulous. We picked up tickets for the train to Paris and after climbing up and down 25,000 flights of stairs wi... |
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 | Motorcylce Sunsets
2008-01-28, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | What better way to watch a sunset than zipping through Montmartre on the back of a motorcycle driven by an Armenian guy? This is only the second time I've been on a two-wheeled-this-is-what-it-feels-l... |
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 | LOST IN THE WORLD
2008-01-07, Paris, France. By: laneise | | My first day was horrible I got lost on the metro, on the way to school, from school, its better to say when i didnt get lost because i got lost so many times.Did i forget to mention how sexy the guy... |
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 | open eyes, open heart
2008-01-08, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | So after my new year's resolution to enjoy the love Paris has to offer backfired with a creepy guy named Stephan trying to kiss me in the metro, I decided to change my resolution. I will discover Pari... |
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| Jouez un cheval!
2008-01-05, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | Today I met Janine's godchildren. They are adorable boys with fantastic names! Alexander and Maximilian. We went to the park to ride the plastic ponies, but they quickly discovered that I can do a rat... |
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 | making friends in monochrome
2007-12-29, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | I met a man named Virgil, who takes amazing photos and told me all about his recent divorce. I met a woman named Marilyn who has inch long silver nails and prefers to take photos with film. I met an A... |
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| Violence and High Tea
2007-12-28, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | Yesterday Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, wrapping Pakistan in violence like the grim reaper's cloak. I became aware of the news while sipping tea with Janine and her friends. There we sat in a lovel... |
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 | Noël
2007-12-25, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | Christmas in Paris started out with a most graceful sunrise. I began my day with yoga and then meditated about prayer. I pictured the peaceful faces of all my family and friends still sleeping in that... |
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 | A normal conversation in four languages
2007-12-22, Paris, France. By: micah4 | | So, I went out the other night with my Japanese friend Shoko and her friends (Japanese and French). Between the five of us, we spoke Japanese, French, English and Spanish. There was no common language... |
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 | Paris
2007-12-04, Paris, France. By: embuck27 | | Wow, do I have a lot to catch up on!
I’ll start with Thursday morning – leaving for Paris! I woke up around 3 to take a 4:30 train to Pisa, then another train to the airport for my flight at 7:5... |
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 | On Parisian Music
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | In Paris, music was everywhere: in the metro (but you have to audition to play there, see “On the Metro”), outside the Louvre (we heard a wonderful singer, a decent clarinetist, and a cellist, among ... |
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 | Paris - final thoughts
2007-10-07, Paris, France. By: mira979 | | As I lay in bed last night my mind was racing with images of walking through Paris. There is a great lack of coin-accepting public phones in Paris. Maybe all over, I didn't check elsewhere.
I hav... |
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 | Paris - Day 4
2007-10-06, Paris, France. By: mira979 | | 06 October 07
1am?? Wow, Paris is crazy tonight. A. It's a Nuit Blanche, so people are still performing and stuff B. France beat NZ in the rugby match so people are 1. pissed 2. pissing 3. honki... |
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 | Paris - Day 3
2007-10-05, Paris, France. By: mira979 | | 05 October 07
I've noticed some things from "Paris to the Moon": the green uniforms of the garbage collecters; the "Ici tombe... Mort pour la France" signs... somethings else.
Adam Gopnik wri... |
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 | Paris - Day 2
2007-10-04, Paris, France. By: mira979 | | 04 October 07
If I didn't have a cold this would be so much better. However. Paris, on my own. I would not choose to live here, but of course I've been in the busy arrondissements today. Still,... |
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 | Paris - Day 1
2007-10-03, Paris, France. By: mira979 | | 03 October 07
Today I have spoken more French than in my entire life! I remember so much and I forget so much. I'd say I've been super successful today talkign with Lera and with random people at... |
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| On the Foyer in Paris
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | This post will be purely informational. For those of you who are interested, we stay at a dorm-style type “hostel” while we are in Paris. I know that I wanted to know what kind of place it would be... |
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| On Sardines
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | One day, we took the Metro and I didn’t hate it. This was ironic, because it was rush hour. This means that everyone was on the Metro. Don’t even think about moving any part of your body. And ther... |
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| On the Metro, Part I
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | One day I decided that Hell probably looks like the Parisian Metro. In reality, the Metro is not so bad. In fact, it’s highly convenient and fairly quick. Unfortunately for me, though, it makes me... |
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| On the Metro, Part II
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | Let me commence this story the same way I will probably end it: this man did not hit on me. It made me sad.
One of my favorite things to do on the metro in Paris was to people watch (for more ... |
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| On Candles
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | Okay, this is my embarrassing story moment. On one of our very first days in Paris, a large group of us decided to venture out on our own for dinner after an “excursion” (i.e. a visit to someone near... |
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| A Walk in the Park
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | For once, I was walking home from school alone. Having eaten lunch together, we all parted ways and took care of our own errands. Which left me promenading through the Luxembourg Garden, p... |
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| On Frenchmen Introduction
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | On Frenchmen
Everyone says Italians are the most flirtatious people around (next to, perhaps, Mexicans, which I agree with…but that’s a story for another time). I, however, never found the Italia... |
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| "Pas Mal"
2007-10-11, Paris, France. By: Caitlin | | It was a weekend, and Kevin (our director), had come to take us on a brief visit of Paris. We exited the hostel in our very obviously American group, chatting and laughing loudly. But so what: afte... |
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 | Getting to Paris
2007-09-21, Paris, France. By: susiey | | 21 09 07 getting to Paris
Too easy. We got up before six, and were on the way with thanks to Sandy and Paul. Tom tom took us all the way to the rental return without a hitch. Sometimes technology... |
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| tour of Paris
2007-09-22, Paris, France. By: susiey | | 22 08 07
Today we have a tour of Paris – it includes an English speaking guide, lunch at the Tour Eiffel and a cruise on the river seine.
We were up early enough, trying to connect to the inter... |
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 | Hello from Paris
2007-09-25, Paris, France. By: ginger121 | | Bonjour. We are having a wonderful time strolling the streets of Paris. We've been to the top of the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triumphe. Seen Notre Dame and the Louvre. . and we have put another 200 ... |
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 | Paris
2007-09-23, Paris, France. By: ginger121 | | Well - we made it to Paris . . . turned in the car at Orly airport .. yea - we're now on foot. We're a lot less dangerous (I think) that way!! At least Paris is safer!!
We have a great hotel on... |
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 | Destination....... Paris
2007-09-14, Paris, France. By: elimatt | | Feeling very excited, we left Leeds Bradford early on the morning of the 30th July for our hour or so in the air before hitting (not literally) the tarmac at Charles De Gaulle in Paris.
However, as... |
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| Paris is great!
2007-06-14, Paris, France. By: caitlin | | On Thursday, September 13th, we arrived in France! After an overnight flight, I was extremely tired, but SO EXCITED to be in Paris. Now that I've been here for almost a week, it feels like so much t... |
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 | Paris, Lyon, Taxis & Foie-Gras
2007-09-06, Paris, France. By: lizzie | | Thanks to the rugby tickets I got from Sue & Phil I went on a nice little break to France from 6-10 September. My old flatmate Lach came too and since he hadn't been to Paris before we stayed there f... |
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 | Spring in Paris
2007-03-22, Paris, France. By: krapulax | | Paris is a most beutifull city in a world!
I & my family went to Paris at spring time. The weather was cloudy and rainy. We went a lot by Metro. The Metro traffic is very good in Paris, we could to... |
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 | Paris Layover
2007-09-08, Paris, France. By: tommyexcel | | The first thing we had to try to adjust to was the fact that once we landed in Paris, they are nine hours ahead of us here in California. We made excellent time and arrived in Paris 40 minutes ahead ... |
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| Parlez vouz anglae?
2007-09-08, Paris, France. By: kjkerr | | Bonjour!
Firstly my apologies to Liz Hodge (and any other french speakers out there)who at this moment is probably cringing at my french spelling- i could only try!
Paris..... how do i start?!
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 | Paris
2007-08-17, Paris, France. By: adsdan | | Our first trip from London to the amazing city of Paris. Catching the superfast Eurostar to Paris was so much easier than flying. No need to get to the station 2 hours before departure, no need to che... |
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