I have been to Paris!

photocat · May 9, 2007

and loved every minute of it...
I am writing up about it on my blog.
Feedback as always welcome, and I hope that you don't mind that I use my blog instead of the D-grin travel thread...

Chrissiebeez_NL · May 9, 2007

i took a peek in you blog and i liked it a lot! really nice touch with the framing. it goes well with the statues and the sort. i've been to paris a gazilion times and i keep discovering new streets, places and people. its a city to get drowned in and just go with the flow. Glad you enjoyed your trip!

Seneca · May 9, 2007

Didn't see any pictures of the Eiffel Tower or the Arc. Your blog is splendid...good job. I went to Paris (first time) back in September 06...I really enjoyed it.

You were smart to get a guide...we were on our own. We're going to Spain in a November, so I will definately look into getting a guide.

Here is my night shot of the Arc...lots of noise, but I think it adds to the picture.

photocat · May 9, 2007

I am still working on those... There is more to come... ;o)))

Flyinggina · May 9, 2007

I went to your blog and loved it!! Wonderful photos and commentary. You would have a ball at the Pere LaChaise cemetery!

Virginia

photocat · May 10, 2007

Paris: Place du Tertre

is up on my blog...

http://photocatseyes.typepad.com

Thanks for looking. Comments welcome

Chrissiebeez_NL · May 10, 2007

i havent seen any photo's of the best side of paris: the flip-side!

Les Egouts (the sewer) and Les Catacombes (wich house more than 6 million people in total as i recall) are a blast to visit and under the Notre Dame is another piece of fine underground Paris. They've excavated old roman buildings among others and you can see cellers build with blocks of old roman pillar

eh.. a stone is a stone right?

Did you by any chance visited any of these places? if not you HAVE to go back..

photocat · May 10, 2007

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

i havent seen any photo's of the best side of paris: the flip-side!

Les Egouts (the sewer) and Les Catacombes (wich house more than 6 million people in total as i recall) are a blast to visit and under the Notre Dame is another piece of fine underground Paris. They've excavated old roman buildings among others and you can see cellers build with blocks of old roman pillar eh.. a stone is a stone right? Did you by any chance visited any of these places? if not you HAVE to go back..

grin, I have enough trouble with the living, so I try to stay away from the catacombes. I visited a cemetary, and that was close enough for me.
My husband was going to go to the Catacombes while I visited Pere Lachaise, but then changed his mind.
I want to go back any day! The sooner the better...
Thanks for the comments

Chrissiebeez_NL · May 10, 2007

if not to the catacombes, at least visit les egouts, its one of the strangest things you'll see in paris. its a museum about the sewers of paris. you can walk around the old sewers AND... it has a museum about the sewer build inside the sewer on a grid with sewerwater running underneath!

so while you read about the sewer all the typical sewer odours go straight up through the grid and into your nostrils! you can imagine i havent read everything there was to read..

you've build up quite the collection and i like the photo's you've made. nice colours and it gives a good feeling of paris besides the usual eiffel tower photo's

W.W. Webster · May 10, 2007

photocat wrote:

is up on my blog...

http://photocatseyes.typepad.com

Thanks for looking. Comments welcome

Great photos!

photocat · May 10, 2007

W.W. Webster wrote:

Great photos!

Thanks doubleyou doubleyou ;o)))

saurora · May 11, 2007

Fantastic job Cat! Makes me want to go! Well, at least it makes me want to get out and shoot some good photos, even if I don't have access to Paris. I sent a link to your blog to my niece who was in Paris along with her sister and her mother (my sis) 2 years ago. Here is what she responded this evening:

Fun to see! I am somewhat envious of her pictures. Not because I can’t take such shots, which we know I can’t, but because she experienced sun and a yummy salad in Paris . All I got was rain and something that really did taste like grass! Yet it still makes me want to go back to Europe ….

Jenn

photocat · May 11, 2007

Thanks Susan for sending the link on... We had a miracle week for what concerns the weather. It normally is not that sunny in Europe in April.
There has been an exceptional long period of drought, we had a full week of sunny weather, with one thunderstorm and some quick rain.

I realise that we were lucky for the weather, right now it is back to grey and wet England, cold, well, back to normal weather in april.

A trip can be made or broken with the weather... It all looks so much better with a bit of sun!

Chrissiebeez_NL · May 11, 2007

sorry, didnt mean to hijack your thread, i just get a little too excited talking about paris.. please forgive me? :feelgood

photocat · May 11, 2007

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

sorry, didnt mean to hijack your thread, i just get a little too excited talking about paris.. please forgive me? :feelgood

Never!

grin, I have other kittens to whip then this. I did not see it as hijacking, it is a message board, so interaction is what it is all about. No biggie... Hijack along, I don't care...