I need 10 props on this entry before I update! Rules are rules!
If you're going be in 6 countries in 7 days, you have to keep hopping!
Paris's Ile de Cite metro stop. By and large, they had less modern stations than London but about on par with New York. In London though, you would see pretty old ones and very new and modern ones - at Victoria station, for example, they are installing walls along the tracks with sliding doors that line up with the opening doors of the subway cars. The idea is to prevent someone from having to do what
this hero did. Other stations were much less advanced. In Paris, though, all but one of the lines look quite identical. Line 1 is pretty different, and it's stop at the Louvre had mini-exhibits in the station - pretty classy! But reading up on Wikipedia, nearly all of the metro system was built by 1920, which surprised me, because I had thought it was a post-war project by the looks of it. If only US cities would build up instead of out, we too could have a density that would afford a subway system where every building is withing 500 meters of a station...
Coming back from Notre Dame, we made it on our first train, but while waiting for our connection for the rest of the trip, an announcement was made in French, and everyone turned for the exit. A little worried, we asked a mom with her kids if she spoke English, and with barely an accent, she explained that the system had shut down for the night at the usual time. Oh! Great! So just walk? And we did - it wasn't too bad, but 2am is kinda late when you're driving to the Alps the next day. Just another way to see the city!
Esther's own method of censorship.
I have an uncensored version that I will not be posting for fear of imprisonment.
These ads are the best! I saw them in Heathrow for the first time in September and really couldn't forget them because HSBC must have the exclusive advertising contract for the whole airport. The ads read (in French) "folly, genius, genius, folly" - a genius advertising move promoting their PR website, yourpointofview.com. This one was in Paris's airport where we were renting a car for two days...which would prove to be a memorable experience...
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duh duh duh!!!! i'm posting first because i haven't in a while. thought i'd let some others get some time in...but really, it's time for me to reassert my dominance.
who's that adorable girl in the mirror!?!?
LOL @ "for fear of imprisonment"...you'd probably get an X rating this time around.
can i say how much i'm enjoying the daily travelogue? your comment numbers must be through the roof!
ryc ~ what, you don't want everyone to know how great you are at telling me how great I am?
(i'll take it down if you really want me to. but my blog is made of saying good things about you...the whole thing might fall down around our ears if i do that.)
ryc ~ i could tell the truth: that i made the entire convo up myself so that you would look better to the general population.
i can't BELIEVE you just played the gender card!! where's your feminist girlfriend when I need her! esther! help!
wait, are you giving up? this was your great effort?
my response? MY response? about creativity flowing from the male gender? i'd like to point your attention to the SCRAPBOOK, which was pretty darn creative, and given to you by four devoted WOMEN. so booya.
do we really want to get into what flavor of "inspiration" you provided for that book? it was out of the kindness of my heart that i managed to move on from the "green eyes" heartbreak and cut you some slack, and i had to restrain all the other ladies so they wouldn't immediately boot you out of the house. so :p
not a chance. i've got nothing to do for the next two hours while i wait for paychecks to show up. the only thing i'm worried about is carpal tunnel. (michelle is pretty thrilled by how fast i'm typing.)
michelle says hi back, and that she hopes it's snowing where you are. i won't disappoint her and tell her that it's probably sunny and 70 in wisconsin right now. kick you out of the house? i don't get it.
btw, michelle loves KT TUNSTALL just as much as i do, so i'd be careful about what you say about her. also, she could probably kick your ass from here to scotland (her native country...KT AND Michelle, but i mean KT) just with a guitar chord or two.
i told michelle that you're coming to visit her, and she's confused about why. "wait, is it because i'm photogenic?" she might have noticed the camera in your hand when she came over for dinner.
or it might also be all the raving i do about your photos. ooops i mean...
tunisia?! where did THAT come from? and can i also say that i'm VERY impressed by your ability to misspell things on purpose. that's something to list on your resume.
i'm pretty sure flagstaff is on the way to tunisia.
seriously? vegas is SUPER close! i'd probably fly in, no driver's license and all that...and i have family to visit there...that's where i spent christmas, you know
you might want to check with The Groth on if this would be interfering with Guys Weekend (tm).
would be fun. i'd fly in for the day if i had to. you're on airport taxi duty then.
The 1920's? Hmm.. well they looked old. They need to get rid of the yellow tile. I also like the HSBC ads, very clever.
Your pictures are fantastic! They make me all the more excited about going to see Esther, even though we probably won't make it to Paris.
Esther looks stunning in the reflective picture! The link to the NYC subway article is fascinating. Your Notre Dame photos make it more beautiful than my memory of it.
do you and tree25 IM?
i think you need to change your rule. just update already!
i like the first photo--the lines and curves with the movement. and the lighting. it's nice. are you submitting your photos to different contests? you should-as many as possible.
lol ^^^
if she only knew.