City Of Lights
Trip Start
Jun 10, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 14, 2007
Paris,
France
Monday, April 9, 2007
For the first week, we stayed with our friend Aminatou who is from Paris. It is so nice to stay with someone you know here. The opportunity to stay with someone from Paris has given us so much deep insight on this city.
The second week we went to stay in an apartment we rented in the Latin Quarter. During this week my parents came to stay with us. We found a good deal in a place close to the Seine River, and Notre Dame so my parents could easily walk to these places. My parents had a great time. They saw the things we Californians have perhaps only seen too many times on the television. So, they had a great time getting a chance to see Paris. Unfortunately, I think their time was too short here. My father vowed that they would make a return to Paris at a later date remarking that he had not seen enough or drank enough good wine. My mother didn't get a chance to find any antiques to take home so I'm sure she has incentive to return as well.
We've been really getting some great opportunities to see some of the less touristic stuff as well. After my parents left, we returned to Aminatou's apartment. Afterwards, we went to the suburbs of Paris and had dinner with our friends Delphine and André. They have a wonderful apartment in a beautiful garden apartment complex. We also got a chance to see Andre's photos. He is taking pictures of the neighborhood architecture on the periphery of the city. He is taking some remarkable photos of places that are not what you would typically imagine Paris to look like. Much of his work is of the newer architecture here. His work is fantastic! I will try and post some of his work online or perhaps post a link to his work.
Delphine, has a puppetry/marionette work studio in their apartment that was also really interesting. She gave us a performance after dinner that was really fantastic. She showed us how the puppets were made and explained to us all about her experiences with doing this unique form of performance art.
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paris
hey, bro. looks like you are living the life. contact me, though.