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  Paris, France
Thursday, August 9, 2007

Hello,

I am now in Dusseldorf with an extended layover due to who knows what. Anyway, Celia and I spent five days in the city of lights and spent them rather busy. It rained for two days so we were somewhat slowed down but nonetheless we visited lots of museums like the louvre (venus de milo and Mona Lisa), Musee D orsay (Huge galleries of van gogh, renoir, monet, etc), Rodin Museum(Thinker and Kiss), Picasso Museum, and a few more. We also saw all the sights like the notre dame cathedral, arc de triumphe and eiffel tower. Yesterday we visited Versailles and toured the chateau but unforutanely didnt get to alk the extensive gardens due to the bad weather.

Paris was really wonderful with so many sights and history all around us at any given time

Arc De Triumph

. One of the nice things of our stay was celia was able to connect with an distant aunt that lives in paris and we were able to meet up with them for two of our evenings.

The people in Paris are really nice, and we didnt run into anyone rude. We actually even had one older lady stop and help us as we were looking at the big map near a bus stop, although she didnt speak english she was able to guide us to the arc de triomphe.

As you may suspect Paris is loaded with tourist right now and places like the louvre were so packed with people that we really didnt get to enjoy the museum. The thing about the museums here is they may have signs that say no pictures or no flash, but everyone takes them and staff dont really seem to care. People were pushing each other and generally being tourons which again made the experience less enjoyable.

One thing, if you make it Paris buy the museum card whcih allows you to skip most lines for tickets and typically you have a separate entrance from all the tourons.

Today we are on our way to Malaga spain and this begins the last 10 days of the trip. In spain we will visit malaga, granada, sevilla, ronda, and madrid. I am sure there is more but celia made all these plans and i forget. One thing, although everyone spoke either spanish and or english in france itll be nice to be in spain where language will no longer be an issue!!

Enjoy the pics.

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Louvre Museum	Mi Bella in Paris	Mona Lisa	Napoleon`s Tomb
Notre Dame Cathedral	Rodin Museum	Sacre Couer

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