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6/8 Rue Saint Laurent Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Day 17: Back in the City of Lights

A travel blog entry by lithobolia

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Not a whole lot to report for the last few days... I've been mostly working and dealing with a messed up neck (wrought iron day beds are pretty to look at but don't always provide the best night's sleep.)

I woke up early this morning, not even bright and early because it was still dark out, and headed over to the train station in Worms. The sky was clear and it was the first time that I had been able to see the stars in Germany. I bought a pretty expectedly ...

Day 15

A travel blog entry by braedenpayne

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... a photo. From the dinner we headed for a lovely cabaret show with tits and magic I can’t ask for much more. Our whole Contiki for the first time was heading out together to get our drink on and was a solid night with many people requiring assistance in getting home good old sully’s got me dancing on tables and having a quality ...

Paris

A travel blog entry by prinkina2

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We have been in Paris since yesterday afternoon after a nice train ride from Brittany. We spent the evening catching up with old family friends and then finished with dinner at the Fuxia. This morning we got up and had break at the cafe La Rimaudiere close to Alain's. Then after that we went back to Alain's to hang out a bit and then headed out to the area of the Concord ...

Oh my, Monet!

A travel blog entry by monet2011

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... originally from Mansfield, Ohio. Yep, small world. Turns out she was staying at our hotel too!

We finally made it to the Tuileries Garden, the Louvre's backyard, and traipsed to the other end to Musee de l'Orangerie. What a thrill to pass the long line waiting for tickets and waltz in with our Museum Passes.

Inside was almost overwhelming. Monet had designed his space with a white circular lobby, two ...

A tiny bit of vice to balance out all this virtue.

A travel blog entry by ebmeyer

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... I guess. There was also commentary from Toulouse-Lautrec and Verlaine and Malraux and other guys from that milieu--it figures you'd go to them for expert color commentary on the daily lives of prostitutes, right? I guess you can't drink absinthe ALL day... Anyway, only women were allowed to run brothels, so this was a legal way for savvy girls to become rather powerful and the secret influence of brothels on French politics was significant, to say ...