One of the books I am currently reading is ‘The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars‘ by Stephen O’Shea. At the beginning of the chapter on Carcassonne there is a perfect description of what I saw and how I felt when I caught my first fleeting glimpse of Carcassonne as I traveled from Toulouse [...]
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To Dream with Your Eyes Open
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2013
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I Left My Heart in a Paris Garden
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2013
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Place de la Concorde – South Fountain
From Wiki:
The two fountains in the Place de la Concorde have been the most famous of the fountains built during the time of Louis-Philippe, and came to symbolize the fountains in Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, a student of the Neoclassical designer Charles Percier at the École des Beaux-Arts. The German-born Hittorff had served as the official [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2013
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View From Place de la Concorde
Ready Steady GO!!!
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 4th 2013
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Place de la Concorde – The Obelisk
From Wiki:
The center of the Place is occupied by a giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. It is one of two the Egyptian government gave to the French in the nineteenth century. The other one stayed in Egypt, too difficult and heavy to move to France with [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 3rd 2013
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Exit to Place de la Concorde
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2013
