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... kinds of music. There was a salsa group, a jazz group, a tango group, and a “rock” (basically 1940s/50s music) group. What a show! And again, there were at least 700 people gathered there at 11:00pm! We watched a bit of all the dancing and I said I wanted to watch salsa. The random French guy, whose name is Eustace, volunteered to teach Vicki and me a few steps. Vicki said, but I really wanted to learn some, so I said yes. The dance was MUCH ...

... was when i went to the moulin rouge! um, the amount of sex shops and places to buy lingerie is just incredible! leather underwear, whips, chains, porn, dolls....omg, you name it and they have it! that and there were so many live shows in the middle of the day! i mean, who is actually watching these? lol. I went into a couple of the shops, just to say i went in...mistake, but a good story. i swear you can catch a disease by just going into those ...

... loved it. While I was in Paris I met a couple of girls from Korea, so I hung out with them a little bit. My last night there we went on a little night boat cruise which was kinda cheesy, but still fun. I also managed to learn a little about Korea, (did you know they start calculating your age from conception and not birth?) and even learned to read a little Korean, turns out not as hard as I thought! Speaking of learning a language. Everyone wants to ...

... watch the procession up the stairs. Back then, it was supremely inappropriate for women to show their ankles, so the steps on the staircases were designed (minimum altitude between steps) so as to prevent any accidents. oh la la. Even within the elite there were different classes - the abonnés, who were very rich men and could afford 3-day season tickets had access to the backstage area, and the privilege of sitting in the first two rows in ...

... it turned into Rue du Buci, and I heard there should be cheese shops, meat shops, etc to sustain us for lunch. It was hard to firgure all that out, so we just kept our eyes open for the best looking sidewalk sammich. We didn't find one that looked tasty enough so we turned right at the intersection of Blvd St Germain des Pres. Lunch We were reaching the end of the area that I ...

There's a new museum in Paris called the Pinacotheque de Paris. It's next door and across the street from the food emporiums of "Fauchon" in the Place de la Madeleine. This month it is hosting an exposition of Chaim Soutine's works entitled "Chaïm Soutine: Le Fou de Smilovitchi" (The Fool from Smilovitch). Born in the Russian Pale, in the shtetl of Smilovitch to an orthodox Jewish family. Soutine defied his family's intentions of his training to be a ...

... and dragged back to face their crimes of living in a time that no longer needed nor wanted them. Within a year both had met their fate at the guillotine. How confused, frightened and bewildered they must have thought as the real world so visciously intruded on their own protected one. We wandered a bit of the ornate grounds and enjoyed so ice cream. Jordan wondered if the Queen had had such a ...

A little info about the Paris Métro... When you come to Paris, the use of the Paris Métro is inevitable. Opened in 1900, the Paris Métro is the fourth-oldest Metro in Europe (earlier ones were in London (1863), Glasgow (1896) and Budapest (1896)). The total length of the network is 212,5 km. It's one of the ...

... in London where you have to pass your card through a machine for the gates to open. The Paris Metro simply doesn't let you back in once you exit. You have to use a new ticket. So, I'm completely surprised when I run into my first *exit* turn-style, asking for a ticket. Okay... well, let's see... I put the ticket that I used to originally enter the Metro into the machine. Denied. It seems to be wanting a special ticket. What? I was never told to buy one. I put in one ...

... slowly invading: a skyscraper here, a Starbucks there. i think the glory days are past, and i´m just sorry to have missed them. if this is Paris now what was it then? Along with the evening Eiffel Tower comes an evening at Sacre Coeur. the church and its surrounds feels like a sanctuary against the turbulent city beyond. it is peaceful and romantic and elegant. and though its a big church it doesn´t succumb to the monumental scale of the arc or the louvre ...