Paris

[fotoi]

La Madeleine (taken while riding on a bus tour of Paris, so the image quality is only so-so).

 

[Darren75]

La Madeleine (taken while riding on a bus tour of Paris, so the image quality is only so-so).

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Looks great on the iPad.

 

[inphoto]

Not a path I would like to walk by myself!

I have walked in it, alone at night, no lights, just my head light, and stopped to rest on the wall. Then I found out i was resting on skulls and bones. Totally terrifying! But the next step was more terrifying as we had a baptism ceremony for students of the university. They would lift you upside down and put your head in a dirty water fountain while the ceremony committee would watch you drown..

 

[inphoto]

 

[JohnPD]

I have walked in it, alone at night, no lights, just my head light, and stopped to rest on the wall. Then I found out i was resting on skulls and bones. Totally terrifying!

I bet it was! I'm not easily spooked but yeah, that would do it.

But the next step was more terrifying as we had a baptism ceremony for students of the university. They would lift you upside down and put your head in a dirty water fountain while the ceremony committee would watch you drown..

Yikes. Sounds like hazing!

 

[PhotoNut]

I have walked in it, alone at night, no lights, just my head light, and stopped to rest on the wall. Then I found out i was resting on skulls and bones. Totally terrifying! But the next step was more terrifying as we had a baptism ceremony for students of the university. They would lift you upside down and put your head in a dirty water fountain while the ceremony committee would watch you drown..

Yes, definitely sounds like hazing. Glad you survived it!

 

[Darren75]

I have walked in it, alone at night, no lights, just my head light, and stopped to rest on the wall. Then I found out i was resting on skulls and bones. Totally terrifying! But the next step was more terrifying as we had a baptism ceremony for students of the university. They would lift you upside down and put your head in a dirty water fountain while the ceremony committee would watch you drown..

We need a nail-biting smiley in that, what's it called, quick row!

 

[inphoto]

When all was over, at around 3.00 am I left from the visitors exit, in Denfert Rosserau square, a big transit hub. No metro or bus in the night, and no taxi was stopping, as I was wet, covered in mud. I had to cross half of Paris on foot to go home...

 

[JohnPD]

When all was over, at around 3.00 am I left from the visitors exit, in Denfert Rosserau square, a big transit hub. No metro or bus in the night, and no taxi was stopping, as I was wet, covered in mud. I had to cross half of Paris on foot to go home...

LOL Cabbies are funny that way.

 

[Darren75]

When all was over, at around 3.00 am I left from the visitors exit, in Denfert Rosserau square, a big transit hub. No metro or bus in the night, and no taxi was stopping, as I was wet, covered in mud. I had to cross half of Paris on foot to go home...

That must have been a long walk - luckily it was night so nobody saw you!

 

[inphoto]

I also had to climb the seven stories staircase to go into my apartment, no elevator in the 18th century building. I was totally exhausted but then I was young.

 

[JohnPD]

I also had to climb the seven stories staircase to go into my apartment, no elevator in the 18th century building. I was totally exhausted but then I was young.

You really had a night to remember!

 

[greatgrandma]

My first visit to Paris in 1950 - my dad's picture of my great uncle and aunt (he was on sabbatical for a year from his job as a professor of French) and in front are my little sister age 10, me age 12.5, and my mother's first cousin Ann - my great uncle was my grandmother's brother. Ann was 18,

I was in Paris again in 1964 and took a photo going up the Eiffel Tower. Some of the pictures I took then will be in Then and Now.

I was in Paris again in 2019 and here are a couple from that trip

 

[JohnPD]

My first visit to Paris in 1950 - my dad's picture of my great uncle and aunt (he was on sabbatical for a year from his job as a professor of French) and in front are my little sister age 10, me age 12.5, and my mother's first cousin Ann - my great uncle was my grandmother's brother. Ann was 18,

I was in Paris again in 1964 and took a photo going up the Eiffel Tower. Some of the pictures I took then will be in Then and Now.

I was in Paris again in 2019 and here are a couple from that trip

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Handsome family, Rosalie. I bet you were a head turner, pretty girl you were.

 

[greatgrandma]

I thought I would post some slightly different photos from the ones most people post - with people in them