Hotel Lutetia

... I hate flying. Our hotel was very nice on the outside and pretty much everywhere except for our room.  Hotel Lutetia is a 5 star hotel but I can say from experience that not all the rooms are 5 star rooms.  Our first room (we had 3 ...

... a while as I read a book, woke up and decided that this hotel room was bad as well.  So, after some discussions with hotel management, we moved into our third room.  This room, our last at this hotel, was fantastic.  Everything worked - tv ...

... of my journey ...to PARIS! Even though we were staying in a nice hotel in Beijing ( I'll blog about our stay there later), the hotel staff didn't know much English.  Friday night, I had asked for a taxi for 5:30 am so I wasn't sure if that entire ...

... haben. PPS: Ich frage mich hier, wie einige Laeden ueberleben. Viele Strassen in der Altstadt sind immer noch so aufgebaut, dass in einer Strasse alle Eisenwarenlaeden sind - mit dem immer gleichen Angebot. Ganz so wie bei Asterix in, ich glaube, ...

... here. Paris was settled in around 300 BC by a Celtic tribe, the Parisii, and the town that grew up was known as Lutetia. In 52 BC, it was overrun by Julius Ceasar's troops. The Counts of Paris became kings of France around 987AD. The Frankish kings ...

... of Haussmanian/Modern/ and even Medieval architecture, on streets that were originally laid out in Roman times. From early Roman maps of Lutetia, to the maps from the 12-15thth centuries, one can recognize the layouts of the Ile de la Cite, Ile Saint ...