Archive for January, 2013
Filed under Holidays, Paris 2012
Champs de Mars
The silhouetted buildings are Ecole Militaire and the Montparnasse tower.
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2013
This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.
The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.
This year for some reason I felt quite [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2013
Filed under Art, Holidays, Paris 2012
United Buddy Bears
This is a collage of some of the photos I took of the travelling Buddy Bears when they were displayed underneath the Eiffel Tower last Autumn.
On my recent weekend away in Paris I went up the Eiffel tower and when I looked down at the Champs de Mars from the viewing platform I noticed, through the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2013
Filed under Books, Carcassonne 2012, Holidays
The Knights Templar from Glory to Tragedy by Patrick Huchet
Synopsis (from book cover):
After the taking of Jerusalem by crusaders in the year of grace 1099, pilgrims started to travel to Palestine in ever greater numbers to worship at the tomb of Christ, the Holy Sepulchre. It was to ensure their protection that in 1119 – 1120, a knight from Champagne, Hugh de Payns, founded [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2013
Filed under Holidays, Paris 2012
The Trocadero Gardens from Above
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 2nd 2013
