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Great efforts to take this kind of photos

[July, 2012] At last we went all the way up to the top of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame. I felt as if I did one year worth of exercise. Apparently there are 387 steps. The number of…

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Performers in Paris

[July, 2012] This time, we decided to go up the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Of course there was a long queue. we had to wait for 40-50 minutes. During that time, a few street performers…

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A portrait has to look like her/him

[March 2012] On Monmartre, we asked one of the painters to draw us. When you go up the hill, after Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, there are a lot of ‘painters’ for tourists. They may have a hard…

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Listen to Mass in Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

[March 2012] We went into Basilique du Sacré-Cœur at Monmartre in Paris. Because it was Sunday, they were having a Mass in there, but it is one of the most famous sights in Paris, they did…

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Notre-Dame will be next challenge

[March 2012] To climb up to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris and take a photo of the view of Paris from behind the gargoyles was one of our purposes of this trip, but the day was…

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Carnival at islands in Paris

[March 2012] On the way back from Le Marais area in Paris, we saw these people in costume in Rue Saint-Louis en l’Île. The usual carnival time has passed, but here every year, they have one…

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Locks in Paris

[March, 2012] Lovers in Paris were influenced by the Italian film, too. Here on the rail of Pont des Arts you can see a lot of locks. We took the hop on and off sight…

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Given up

[March, 2012] The next high place we aimed at was the Eiffel Tower in my Paris trip whose theme was to go up. But again we had to give up. Partly because one of the…

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Going up

[March, 2012] The purpose of this Paris trip was to go up to some higher places and the first point was the top of the Arch of Triumph. I think it said 284 stairs and…