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I am so far behind on this! Well, spending a week in WDW with a basic phone and not a smart phone will do this! Up to post 135 at this point, so multiple posts and comments may happen, till I get caught up!
Great photos in Paris. It's no doubt my favorite European city and probably overall!
You can't beat the boulangeries and patisseries you visited this day and the visit to La Defense, just prior to your Dinner Cruise.
I've been to La Defense. It's mostly a modern collection of office buildings, but the open areas and plaza (whatever you want to call it) I like a lot and is quite relaxing!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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Some great photos from your Dinner Cruise on Le Seine! Wow!
Didn't know that La Samaritaine had closed. I loved that place. Didn't visit the store much, but loved going to the roof top for lunch and a great view. The experience was amazing.
The dinner looked and seemed so good. One thing I noticed as being to Paris on a few occasions and other towns in Eastern France (last year) is that the sauces with your various entrees and apps seem so much richer in Paris than other towns. Didn't find this as much in other areas. Just an observation!
Some great photos of Le Tour Eiffel and Pont Alexandre III! My favorite bridge in Paris. Hope you got a chance to see the bridge along the Seine with the padlocks near Le Louvre. It's on Pont des Arts across from the Louvre on the right bank. Recently, these locks are being included on another bridge, Pont L'Archeveche. Not sure where it is, but best to go with the original! Here's a photo, of Pont drs Arts I included in my TR!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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What a fantastic end to the evening! The Eiffel Tower at night is breath taking. A couple of questions. First, it was hard to tell, but was the Statue of Liberty as big as the one in America? And second, what were the wrapped things next to the macaroons? Chocolate?
I am so far behind on this! Well, spending a week in WDW with a basic phone and not a smart phone will do this! Up to post 135 at this point, so multiple posts and comments may happen, till I get caught up!
I know that problem from whenever we go away, but at least when you get back, you've hopefully had a wonderful vacation.
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Great photos in Paris. It's no doubt my favorite European city and probably overall!
You can't beat the boulangeries and patisseries you visited this day and the visit to La Defense, just prior to your Dinner Cruise.
I've been to La Defense. It's mostly a modern collection of office buildings, but the open areas and plaza (whatever you want to call it) I like a lot and is quite relaxing!
There are more photos to come of La Defense in due course....
Some great photos from your Dinner Cruise on Le Seine! Wow!
Didn't know that La Samaritaine had closed. I loved that place. Didn't visit the store much, but loved going to the roof top for lunch and a great view. The experience was amazing.
According to Wikipedia, it closed in 2005.
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The dinner looked and seemed so good. One thing I noticed as being to Paris on a few occasions and other towns in Eastern France (last year) is that the sauces with your various entrees and apps seem so much richer in Paris than other towns. Didn't find this as much in other areas. Just an observation!
The sauces certainly were rich. I must admit I've never thought about a comparison with other cities in France, but it wouldn't surprise me if Paris were different to the rest of the country.
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Some great photos of Le Tour Eiffel and Pont Alexandre III! My favorite bridge in Paris. Hope you got a chance to see the bridge along the Seine with the padlocks near Le Louvre. It's on Pont des Arts across from the Louvre on the right bank. Recently, these locks are being included on another bridge, Pont L'Archeveche. Not sure where it is, but best to go with the original! Here's a photo, of Pont drs Arts I included in my TR!
If we went past that, I didn't see it at night, but what a fascinating, if slightly bizarre, idea...
What a fantastic end to the evening! The Eiffel Tower at night is breath taking. A couple of questions. First, it was hard to tell, but was the Statue of Liberty as big as the one in America?
it's a lot smaller. According to Wikipedia, it's one fourth the size of the one in New York, meaning it's just 22 metres tall.
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And second, what were the wrapped things next to the macaroons? Chocolate?
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We had a really nice night’s sleep, although when Mark told me it was 7:00am, I figured I wasn’t getting up that early, not after such a late night the night before. Eventually, I surfaced just after 8:00am, and showered and headed downstairs.
I was met by the dog, who was very excited to see someone up and about. He bounded down the stairs ahead of me, and stood there looking at me, obviously waiting for something, but my first issue was finding the light switches, as it was dark down there. Eventually I found them, and then I headed into the kitchen to put the kettle on. The dog was very excited to go outside, so I opened up the door for him, and out he went. He looked exhausted when he came back in…
Later on, I had to photograph the cat for balance…
I set about trying to find the tea bags and failed completely. Later on, Graeme told me they were on top of the fridge – ah, that’ll be the one place I didn’t look then…
I settled down to watch the TV and catch up on trip report writing, with Mark joining me later, and then Graeme. He disappeared, and we assumed he was somewhere in the house, but Hazel came down a few minutes later, and told us that he’d gone out to the bakers to get croissants – bless him! We’d have gone with him had we known.
When he came back, we sat down to breakfast, and my goodness, the smell from the bag of pain au chocolat and croissants was really something. The pain au chocolat were even warm – absolutely perfect!
We headed out before lunch….
We were going to walk through the town market. It was very bizarre to see somewhere in France that actually had places open. I guess a lot of that is down to having the market on a Sunday. Wow, the stuff in the market was quite something – the fish and fruit in particular were amazing:
And as for the pyramids of cheese they had – I’ve never seen anything like it before!
As we were walking through the market, a really bizarre thing happened – the heavens opened, and it seemed to be hail as well as rain! This was the only shot I got that showed anything might be wrong with the weather at this point…
… because almost as suddenly as it came on, it was gone. Literally it was less than five minutes start to finish!
When we got to the end of the road, we carried on walking, and the buildings around here are beautiful. Both Hazel and I commented on the fact that all the buildings that are very individual, which makes for a unique town.
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I can imagine how tired everyone was after such a long day. 
Well, spending a week in WDW with a basic phone and not a smart phone will do this! Up to post 135 at this point, so multiple posts and comments may happen, till I get caught up! 
it was chocolate.
Love the pictures of the Eiffel Tower! 
Great pictures! 
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