January 2012
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Les Musées and a Tabac
Our musée day started off with a quick pain au chocolat en route to the Metro at 9 am. The outside of the Louvre was a beautiful, palatial stone building and it impressed in the morning sun. A glass pyramid structure surrounded by a water feature marked the entrance to the musée where we waited in the crisp, fall air for 15 minutes.
Since The Louvre is a beast of a musée, we grabbed a map and...
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An American in Paris
On the second day, I woke up at 6:30 am to watch the sunrise in a little plaza a block from the hotel. I love watching the city come alive first with street cleaners, trashmen, workers setting up cafes, then the people heading out for work. It’s in these moments that I can pulse check the soul of city.
After breakfast, we started the day at Montmartre to see Sacré Cœur and the artsy...
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Bonjour, Paris!
The France trip started off on the wrong foot. Our flight out of National was delayed because Obama was in our flight path for New Jersey to deliver a speech re: the devastating flooding from Hurricane Irene. We were on the tarmac for over half an hour since we had to give Air Force One a 25 minute headstart. Then when we landed in Philly, we had half an hour to make our connection so we hauled...
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