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Travelogue: By Country | By Date France | November 2000  

November 2000 - Paris: Musee d'Orsay and The Eiffel Tower

Cool museum, cool buskers, cool tower

Monica's sketch of Mark (no I have not grown a moustache) French firefighters French Egyptians Yes, this is not the Louvre. It's d'Orsay and that's art from the Third Republic
The Seine and d'Orsay from the footbridge Glaze on Duncan's favorite pot Speck on a big canvas Jazz-playing buskers
Jazz-playing buskers A car even smaller than our first room in London writing e-mails From the first level of the Eiffel Tower, looking downstream
Edge of the Champs du Mars ("our park") with the gold dome of Les Invalides and the How we got to the top. Notice white knuckles on Mark's hand Trapped in the Tower The inside story of the Eiffel Tower
Tote and Duncan Palais de Challiot and skyscrapers of La Defense which now is at the end of the "line" that runs from the Louvre, up the Champs Elysee, and out to a modern arch at La Defense Downstream toward Allee de Cygnes. (There's a smaller scale Satute of Liberty at the end of it.) Smaller scale Eiffel Towers
neat tower