The Eurostar is a comfortable experience. It takes you from Paris to London in a jiffy
Passing some stunning scenery and of course crossing the English Channel.
The might of human engineering of course is lost in between the comfortable snooze that envelopes you and looking at all cultures that populate the coach.
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The stairway to the apartment that we stayed in Paris #airbnb
Paris is full of style and technology seems to be an afterthought. Obviously. But style remains.
A numbered lock on the main door that leads to a passage way that you need another numbered entry or an electronic key. And then you get to this stairway that sums up many years of steps taken to keep it this way.
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There are two pretty fountains that are at the centre of Paris. One celebrating maritime navigation in the seas and another one, celebrating trade and navigation in the rivers.
Called ‘Fontaines de la concorde’ they are a work of both intricate art and history.
Oh yes, they are filled with tourists and snappy cameras. Yet, they are much fun. If you have an eye for such things.
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The balustrade on the bridge over the River Sienne on Paris, has seen much river flow beneath it. So much so, that it barely warms up to the Sun making its appearance in the horizon.
The Sun isn’t making an appearance for the Sienne either. Some sort of a magical coincidence.
The average traveller in me revels at such coincidences as we pack our bags one more time today.
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I was warned. Warned more than adequately that the Eiffel Tower can be a disappointing experience. For all of its fame and glory it can show up as a stacked up mass of steel that touches the sky.
And so I was prepared to see it as just that. When the expectation are so low, the experiences end up being much better.
The Eiffel Tower juts into the sky with a sudden flourish with the help of some solid legs. Ah legs! Legs with arches and whorls. Patters and lines. All of steel and stands solid, as the rest of the tower seems to be in such a hurry to rush to the sky.
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The Ferris Wheel. The wheel that made its debut in 1893 brought alive by a gentleman names George Ferris never fails to get me to stop, stand and stare. And by the way, I don’t enjoy the ride in but. So standing and staring comes as an easy substitute too!
There is something about it beyond words. Something about the symmetry of movement of a string of disjointed yet connected pieces.
And when it is lit up like how it was in #Brussels, it causes you to just sit there and watch the dizzy array of lights do their dance. Just as the night buzzed in full life.
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The tradition is this. The couple declare their love, lock it up in a sense by affixing a lock atop a bridge and throwing the keys into the river!
Whatever happens to their love is upto anybody’s guess. It sure does leave a heavy bridge that is full of locks. Locks of all shapes, sizes and even numbered combinations!
I first wrote about it here : https://www.kaviarasu.com/2015/04/locks-of-love/
Locks of love. Lots of them in romantic Paris!
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How much of France can one picture hold.
Well, quite a bit. The Eiffel Tower, the French national flag and the River Sienne in one picture.
It’s not as though this is a rare picture. It’s just another picture that packs a lot of France into it.
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Have you played this game called ‘statue’? Where you call out “STATUE” and the other person freezes over.
After 10 seconds you get fidgety. You become present to the itch at the wrong place. Or the right place for that matter. And the STATUE breaks.
For a moment I thought of the game. As we walked down Champs Elysee in Paris and saw this.
How apart we are yet how similar was obvious.
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