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On The Road After Dark – Paul in St. Augustine – Paris

by WaterGirl|  August 25, 202010:00 pm| 14 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, On The Road After Dark, Paris After Dark, Photo Blogging

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I love that all these trips to Paris are so different!  The photo from the Louvre speaks to me; it’s quite charming.  I believe we have another first timer this evening, so let’s hope we see more photos from Paul in the future!  ~WaterGirl

Paul in St. Augustine

I spent 2 weeks in 1995 touring Bordeaux, the Rhone Valley, Provence, and Burgundy before arriving in Paris for 3 nights. This trip was about a third of the way through my career as a wine peddler, which also explains the itinerary. A winery owner I worked with rented a villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, and we spent 2 nights with he and his family in a sprawling home nestled in the mountains above the Riviera.

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You have 2 choices in ascending the Eiffel Tower: elevator or steps, which is what we did. Elevator up, and walked down. From the top deck of the Eiffel Tower, the Gold Dome is the Church of Les Invalides and Napoleon’s Tomb.

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I extended my arms over the side and blindly clicked the button on my Instamatic.

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Just inside the entrance to the Louvre.

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The Venus de Milo

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Silenus, an old god of wine making and drunkenness.

On The Road - Paul in St. Augustine/Oldest City Dude  (?)  I'm fine with either - Paris

Passing under a bridge on a tour of the Seine River.

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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 25, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    Nice.

  2. 2.

    randy khan

    August 25, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    I love that Paris seems to be different for everyone.  And that shot from the top of the Eiffel Tower – fab!

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    August 25, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    Great photos. I love Paris and want to go back, when we are allowed to travel again.

    We had plane tickets to Paris in May this year and you know what happened. Just got the refund for the flight there, waiting on the refund for the flight home.

  4. 4.

    Auntie Anne

    August 25, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    Great pictures!

  5. 5.

    Wag

    August 25, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    I love the photo looking down the tower. A very cool perspective.

  6. 6.

    J R in WV

    August 25, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    Great stuff, loved Paris, even though we were there for two nights, the day we arrived, a day to sight see, and the day we left, which we spent at the Charles de Gaule Airport.

    The food was great in Paris, all of it. Even in the tourist joint near the cathedral it was really good. I guess the good and great drives the poor and crummy right out of business.

    Thanks for posting, even an Instamatic does pretty well when you’re shooting in Paris!

  7. 7.

    BigJimSlade

    August 26, 2020 at 12:02 am

    @Paul in St. Augustine – I want to do your wine tour! Though maybe my bank account would balk.  I have read Kermit Lynch’s Adventures on the Wine Route, which is great fun and definitely goes for the romance of traditional wine craftsmanship. (They still sell that romance like Patagonia sells its version of adventure through products.)

    Love the view down the Eiffel Tower :-) Looks like a tilt-shift type of picture. (I want to hear from the French tourist board that more cell phones are lost trying to take a picture like that.)  The Venus de Milo picture just made me want to hear the song by Television, but that’s just me (well, it’s just called Venus).

    From this whole series, I didn’t realize I missed Paris so much. OK, the song’s over (Venus, by Television, of course) so I’ll sign off.

  8. 8.

    Redshift

    August 26, 2020 at 1:24 am

    Cool! I’d completely forgotten, but I have a 110 picture somewhere looking over the edge of the Eiffel Tower. Not quite as much over the edge as that, though, because I was a recovered acrophobic. ?

  9. 9.

    bjacques

    August 26, 2020 at 2:39 am

    I miss Paris. We have friends in the 10th not far from Gare du Nord. We’re keeping in touch since Paris is one of the three hotspots of Covid resurgence. Believe it or not, the Tour de France goes ahead, with the Grand Depart on Saturday in Nice, another of the hotspots. Any team or their entourage gets two positive cases, they’re out.

     

    Monday we venture on a plane for the first time, Amsterdam to Bordeaux, staying with friends across the river near Bourg and Blaye, for a couple weeks of just driving around, for a change in scenery. We’re hoping to visit the chateaux of Michel de Montaigne, the famous essayist.

    It’s a degree of normality granted by governments and populations that are at times only slightly smarter than my own.

  10. 10.

    Seanly

    August 26, 2020 at 4:00 am

    I loved Paris when I was there in ’95. Would love to go back again (and London, Dublin, Rome, lots of other places). My favorite museum was the Musée d’Orsay.

    I don’t have my photos from my ’95 trip to Europe digitized so I can’t post any pictures. I was over there with my brother to visit my Mom while she was in Warsaw on a Fulbright scholarship. It was a wonderful trip – few days in Paris & then a couple of weeks in Warsaw with lots of side trips. I shot at least 1 roll of 24 every day except for the day my brother & I toured Auschwitz. Just couldn’t be there and be a tourist…

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    August 26, 2020 at 5:31 am

    Paris???

  12. 12.

    Lapassionara

    August 26, 2020 at 8:40 am

    These are great photos. ?

  13. 13.

    Andrew

    August 26, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    When I visited Paris last year, I walked up to the second level of the Tower (639 steps).  They had posted many informational graphics on the construction of the Tower, and words of encouragement (Avoir du courage!).   I liked it because I got to see the Tower very intimately and observe details of the construction, which would have been impossible from the elevator.  Watching the sunset and seeing the lights come on across the city was very special.

  14. 14.

    jame

    August 26, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    Just a little grammar quibble:
    “we spent 2 nights with he and his family” should be “we spent 2 nights with him and his family”

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