Paris
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Rest of the Paris Trip
We are just fresh from lunch at the fondue place—fabulous!!—and while we could happily float home in a food buzz and take a nap, we’re not going to because this is our final afternoon in Paris and we’re not gonna waste it. So, miles of insane hiking it is! Lunch was literally a block away… Continue reading
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Last Lunch in Paris
Although I have loved this particular trip, I will say that it has been a weird one: decided upon last minute, then spending much of it in London rather than in Paris—and during our brief moments in Paris, we somehow felt more than content to simply be outside, just walking around and seeing the familiar… Continue reading
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Why We Love/Hate the Metro
We mostly love the Paris Metro. It was the very first public transit system I’d ever learned—my parents took me on it when I was perhaps thirteen. At the time, there was some French advertisement campaign going on which featured huge posters of this skinny French model, completely topless, busting out absolutely everywhere. So on… Continue reading
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A New Day in Paris
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Lunch lol
It’s honestly not that exciting of a lunch but fucking hell it’s IN PARIS!!!! Even a McD’s is exciting here! But we did this trip so low-key… in retrospect I have no idea why we did so; but with a couple second’s more retrospect, of course we did: how could we not, we are still… Continue reading
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Morning Sight-Seeing in Paris
Many moons ago I painted this exact scene in the Place Dauphine, but the boys were little and groveling in the dirt and Sam was rockin the henna hair, and since then the French had dug the whole place up to replace it with a car park 😢 They re-installed the lovely park, but now… Continue reading
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Finally Paris!!
But in typical French fashion, these “public” restrooms were not free, you had to have Euro coins to use them—we had none. So we had a slight problem! But we soldiered on, pretty sure we could make it to the hotel… or could we? Hit the Metro Line 4 to Châtelet, then Line 1 to… Continue reading
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Back to Paris!!
A few decades ago, we’d be in Paris several times a year and so we grew to know the city like the proverbial backs of our hands. But focuses change over time, and with kids growing up and life intruding we made it to Paris less and less. Before we knew it, it had been… Continue reading