2006 Europe Trip
Paris: General
Some miscellaneous sights of Paris...
Euro Mullet!
Superman Returns!
The French Communist Party
World of Warcraft makes an appearance at the Virgin Records Megastore
A picture of Matt taken from Becky's mostly-dead camera
A street band (near the Orsay)
No, we did not eat here (the Indiana Cafe - Tex Mex). Though, we're told that there's a Chuy's at the Eiffel Tower! (right, dad?)
Parisian Public Toilets (we didn't use these either)
Les Halles (was a public market years ago, now mostly a somewhat seedy-looking shopping area. Parts of it remain in their original form, though, like this area:
Doesn't this building just look French somehow?
Driving in Paris is something best left to the well-trained (or at least the gutsy and well-insured). Most cars are very small, and the drivers know the corners of their cars well to squeeze into tiny parking spaces. Every space is compact-only! The smallest car you see is the Smart (model name: "ForTwo"). These things are tiny - you have the idea that if you leaned on it the wrong way it would tip over (much less what would happen if someone actually walked into it). While we were in Paris, we saw the crawl on cnn that Diamler wants to market these in the U.S., so we had to take some pictures:
