Posts Tagged ‘ Paris ’

07-09 From Paris to Beaugency [bo:zhensi:] (Wednesday, July 09, 2014)

2014/07/09
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07-09 16;38 Beaugency - main street

[18 vs. 6]  Overview: Rent a car to drive away from Paris 11:03 Hide apartment key in the mini-safe by the entrance door Metro trip to North train station (Gare du Nord) 12:00 Rent a car with automatic transmission (Enterprise Rent-A-Car) at Gare du Nord (€601 – AmEx) for 17 days till Saturday, July 26.   How can they give such a nice cars to regular people?   IMAGE 01 TEXT 01 First moments with a brand new car.  This is 2014 VW Passat diesel with automatic transmission.  Just the right amount of car.   Brand new car -odometer shows 12km – Black 2014 Volkswagen Passat – 4 doors – very nice   IMAGE…

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07-05 Paris – View from a sharp angle (July 5-6, 2014)

2014/07/05
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Modified: 2014/12/20
07-05 12;43 Entrance to our appartment

Saturday, July 5 – Boulevard Saint-Germain Sunday, July 6,   – Montparnasse   Saturday, July 5, 2014  Overview   11:00 First wake up in Paris.  Slow start.  It is 5AM in America. 12:49 Start the first walk.  Search for several  vegan cafes and  juice bars around Avenue Parmentier and  boulevard de Voltaire.   They all turned out to be closed.     This quiet street explodes with action, when every door turns into a restaurant or a bar Very intricate and symbolic Weathervane on Rue des Saints-Pères View from our apartment in Paris: many streets were decorated with 32 national banners representing 32 World Cup countries   14:00 – 15:45 Lunch at Gentle Gourmet Café (24 Boulevard de…

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07-04 First Steps in Paris (Friday, July 4, 2014)

2014/07/04
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Modified: 2014/12/20
07-04 21;43 brasserie Les Grandes Marches

What is the point of describing your latest adventures abroad?  It is different language, different money and different people and traditions. But most importantly, it is different brain cell that have to do all the processing for you, and that what makes this experience so unusual and so different.  Overview Thursday, July 3 – Depart from Boston to Paris Friday, July 4 – First steps in Paris       Thursday, July 3 2014   Last day at work – Last preparations and thoughts My paper Notebook is wrapped.  Flight check-in is done.  I ordered taxi for 7PM.  Now I need to get out from work at a reasonable time (2PM), arrive home around 4PM, cut the…

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