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I Saw England, I’m Seeing France…

… we’ll leave your underpants out of it for now. But yes, this post is scheduled to go live right as our plane is leaving SeaTac to begin our week-ish long trip to Paris for New Year’s. As I’ve said to others, I pretty much win at girlfriend. :) She deserves a ton of credit for, well, everything, but in particular she did a much better job of keeping it a secret than she did for our London trip - she lost the battle with secrecy a month or more before the trip took place (she’d planned to get me to the East Coast and then tell me where we were actually going). This time, sure enough, I had clue-oriented gifts in my stocking, leading me eventually to search our bookshelf, where I found a gift-wrapped guide to walking tours in Paris. W00t!

We get there on the 31st, early, so there can be napping and re-adjusting. Then dinner at some swank digs and, if we can stay awake for it, fireworks at the Eiffel Tower for midnight. I mean, come on. Then a walk-about on the 1st, museums and such on the 2nd-4th, and home on the 5th. Here’s a map showing likely points of interest, but I welcome any suggestions. Keep in mind, we’re more interested in trying to see a few things with some depth, as opposed to doing drive-bys of the entire city. I heard someone brag once about “doing” Musee du Louvre in 45 minutes. That’s… well, that’s dumb.

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30Dec2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued