Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

While this trip never was about visiting Paris, since we get to see it a little bit every year when we go to France for Xmas, we had an extra day in Paris so that I could see my family before flying home, and we had almost a full day to visit Paris during the summer (Jennifer always saw it during winters, some pretty cold).
We started with tour Montparnasse, then went to l'ile de la cité and l'ile St Louis before heading towards City Hall, and Les Halles which was being totally rebuilt. Next we went to the Louvre and caught an impromptu rehearsal for the Bastille Day Paris Overflights, and walked through the Jardins du Louvre towards place the l'Obélisque where we caught a bike transport towards the Free/Proxad offices where I spent a bit of time to fix/upgrade my server in Paris.

les invalides

pont alexandre III

jardins des tuileries

place de l'obélisque

jardins du luxembourg

notre dame

sacré coeur

l'arc de triomphe

école nationale supérieur des beaux-arts

this lock fad is really getting out of hand

préfecture de police

notre dame again

l'église de St Gervais

jardin in front de l'hotel de ville

les halles, being rebuilt

conciergerie

Then, we happened to catch a rehearsal of the bastille day airshow:

And we went through the Louvre towards l'obélisque:

it was a clear day, you could see the obelisque and arc the triomphe through the first arch that day

I used to play with those boats when I was a kid

we went up to get a view better views

centre george pompidou

We then went back to my dad's place to meet some of my family for a dinner which turned out to be in my honor as an early BD party, putting an end to our crazy tour de France (which we incidentally ended just 2 days before the biking tour the France started).