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06-07-2008, 11:01 AM
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| I'm going to ask a question that may show how much of an ignorant American I am, but... We know in order to travel outside our country we need a passport. What is required for you Brits in order to say, take the Eurostar to France?
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06-07-2008, 03:05 PM
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| Living Seas wannabe  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| Ah - spring in Paris!!! I WANT TO GO TOO!!! Looks wonderful!
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06-07-2008, 03:37 PM
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06-08-2008, 02:58 AM
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| Wednesday 7 May – part three: “we’ll always have Paris!” Finally we were into the lift and on our way up to the third level of the Eiffel Tower:   The view from the top level is amazing, I think Sue and Steve were stunned by it. I know we were, the first time we went up here. It was somewhere here that the phrase “we’ll always have Paris” kept being repeated a lot. It would become the signature expression for the day!  We walked around for a long time, just taking in the view and taking lots of photos of it.  Maison de Radio-France, headquarters of the state run radio station  Palais de Chaillot  Looking towards La Defense on the western edge of the city   Looking along the River Seine    Looking up to the Ecole Militaire with the Parc du Champ de Mars in front of it  Hotel des Invalides  Tour Montparnasse     Looking east along the River Seine  The Palais de Tokyo and the Grand Palais to the right of the shot       Grand Palais  Louvre museum  Tuileries garden next to the Louvre  In the centre of this shot, you can just make out the Sacre Coeur cathedral    Arc de Triomphe   In the centre of the shot, you can see the Notre Dame cathedral       Place de la Concorde Just as we finished up on that level, we decided that we should get a romantic photo of Sue and Steve to illustrate that they’d “always have Paris” I love the result – definitely a serious “aaaawww” moment.   Then it was down to the second level of the Tower for one or two more photos:   La Defense  Palais de Chaillot with La Defense in the background  Sacre Coeur  The park beneath the Eiffel Tower   The view towards the Ecole Militaire and Tour Montparnasse with Hotel des Invalides to the left of the shot  Looking back up towards the third level we’d just come down from  Next: “where’s the hunchback?”
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06-08-2008, 07:26 AM
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| Living Seas wannabe Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| Beautiful photos - and a definite AAAWWWW moment for Steve and Sue.
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06-08-2008, 08:23 AM
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| RED SOX NATION!!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| More great pictures Cheryl
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06-08-2008, 08:49 AM
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06-09-2008, 02:24 AM
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| Wednesday 7 May – part four: “where’s the hunchback?” Sue and Steve got some souvenirs at the shop on the second level, then it was time to head back down to the ground. Once there, out came the immortal words “I’m hungry” from Steve, so we got ice creams and sat there and ate them in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.      The only problem was we had to keep warding off the sellers with their darned miniature Eiffel Towers. They really are persistent, but at least the police did show up at one point and they all scattered. Within a couple of minutes, they were back though.  We took the RER train back to Notre Dame and headed towards the Cathedral. As we walked towards it, Steve kept asking “where’s the hunchback?”              In we went and Mark sat down, while we walked around. Steve lit a candle on the way round and we toured the whole cathedral. It was stunning, perhaps better than St. Paul’s and at least you can take photos in here, although we avoided using flash photography out of respect.                     We were very hungry when we came out of there, so the next thing was to find somewhere to eat. On the way, we got a few more photos:       Next: “stop talking!”
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06-09-2008, 07:40 AM
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| Living Seas wannabe Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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| Beautiful update! Notre Dame is such a beautiful building.
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06-09-2008, 08:52 AM
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| Great pictures of Notre Dame More please
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