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May 08, 2003
paris in spring
Weeks ago now we went to Paris for four days, because its there, because its spring.....
This time we stayed in a small apartment on Rue St Severin in the Latin Quarter. The location was brilliant but noisy. The apartment is in the narrowest building in Paris, the Madeleine building, and is ten centuries old. It showed. Volataire once lived in our apartment and at times it smelt as if part of him still did, the floor sloped one way, the bed the other, it was reeking with character. (At least thats what I hope it was!)
Next time we will probably go back to Montmartre. our favourite "wijk", quieter and less tourists, but we still had a marvellous time. The weather was wonderful so we spent a lot of time sitting on the banks of the Seine, lounging in the Jardin de Luxembourg, we also caught up with the Friday night skate, shopped at the market on Rue St Germain, and took afternoon naps and did not much at all. Geweldig!
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May 01, 2003
april in paris
We spent four days in May in Parijs which was just as wonderful a city as all the cliches say it is. We stayed in Montmartre in a small dark room with possibly the most comfortable bed in the universe, spent a lot of our time climbing stairs, went to some anti-Le Pen demonstrations (which were being held daily), shopped, discovered Jean Louis Murat, Adelscott beer and the limitations of Doc Martens as walking boots. We were lucky enough to see the "La Revolution Surrealiste" at the Pompidou, which was like Disneyland for grown-ups, all the famous images and icons in one place including scenes from Bunuels L'Age D'or.
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oh Barcelona!
At Easter we went to Barcelona for four days and lucked out with mostly sunny weather. We managed to walk ourselves to exhaustion covering most of the city, the Parc Guell and the harbour and Montjuic on foot. We found some amazing graffiti, but mostly just enjoyed looking at the architecture. Obviously the Gaudi buildings, but also the decorated facades and balconies north of the city.
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