Sewers of Paris (Les Egouts de Paris)

Pont de l'Alma, Paris , Île-de-France, France - Phone: 33-1-53-68-27-81
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    Paris in the spring..seems so cliche..but it's not

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    We awoke to beautiful weather in Paris. It was around 70 today, it's Saturday, and everyone in Pairs is out and about! So what did we do on our Saturday morning?????? Laundry! Breakfast from the pastry shop while we ran the wash....a short walk...and we picked up our laundry and took it back to our little hotel. We were out of clothes and really …

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    Musée, musée et encore musée

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    Étant donné la mauvaise température (à peine 20°C et il pleuvait), j'ai décidé de visiter des musées. Avant de commencer, il a fallu que j'aille m'acheter un chandail en coton ouaté et un parapluie, car je n’avais pas planifié pour le froid.

    Direction Musée d'Orsay. Pour aller au Musée d'Orsay, j'ai dû traverser le Jardin des …

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    The sewers

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    ... the internet for free, shopping, and waiting for some E6 films developed. After lunch we went to see "Les Egouts" - the sewers of Paris. It was chilly and actually above open flowing sewers. It was interesting to read about the history of Paris from the ...

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    Paris: Day 3

    ... hours checking out Versailles, I headed back into Paris. Being the geek that I am, I headed went into the Egouts (or sewers) of Paris. I found it to be really interesting to look at and read about the history of the sewers and also about the treatment ...

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    Paris, Our Favourite City

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    ... Dame since reading Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" back in 1963 ( I had also dreamt of wading through the sewers of Paris after reading "Les Miserables" the same year , but Margaret was cool to the idea). We made do with wandering about inside ...

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    Paris!

    ... it) himself.  Then we walked the entire Champs Elyees. We did a Paris Sewer Tour. It is indeed a real tour of the actual sewers of Paris.  The smell gets to you after a while. We wanted tour the Saint-Chappell church to see the Actual Crown of ...

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    We need a calender

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    ... breakfast and came back to our room and took an hour nap. Yeah I know lazy. Then we went to Des Esgouts...the sewers of Paris. hahah crazy! So much crap (literally) floating around in there! But it was really interesting to see how it all worked. Oh ...

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    The vagaries of the French

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    As I was wondering down in the sewers of Paris the other day, I was contemplating the oddities of the French people.  Now you may be thinking I am the odd one, given the location of my wonderings, but rest assured that I was accompanied by a large ...

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    Paris: Top to Bottom

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    ... from where we sat.  After lunch we walked a couple of long blocks along the Seine to the Booth for the Tour of the Sewers of Paris.  I know it doesn’t sound very appetizing but it was quite fascinating. We went down about 30 feet to the ...

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    Roof with a view!

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    ... and some of the sights we have yet to see, namely Musee de l’Armee (Napoleon’s Tomb), la Tour Eiffel and the sewers of Paris. Okay, well maybe we can’t actually see the sewers from our post just shy of the heavens, but you get the ...

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    Bonjour France...Can we go home yet?

    ... tough to really get your bearings.  As we looked around futilly for the street name, we saw the sign “Tour the Sewers of Paris here!”  Duh!  We paid our entrance fee (one whiff, and I thought they should pay US!) and descended ...

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    Un Autre Jour a Paris

    ... next tour was of the Paris sewers.  This was not what I had expected.  I had seen a program on the ancient sewers of Paris and was expecting something like the underground tour of Seattle.  Um, no.  This was a tour of the functioning ...