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Coming back to Galeries Lafayette

[July 2012] My visit to Paris was in the middle of summer sale. I went to other department stores, but  in the end came back to Galeries Lafayette. Here it is always full of activities….

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It is Sale time!

[July 2012] It was early July when I went to Paris. It was the peak time for summer sale. It was even more exciting because the euro was low. I had some muscle ache for…

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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…