No champagne in this package! We were promised champagne as an apéritif. The actual duration of the flight was one hour less than estimated so they cut the best bit off!
Author: francis
Departure (almost an anagram for ‘Raptured’)
The departure (along with Debi graciously driving me to the airport) went smoothly. Getting out of Parkdale is always difficult, even more so when the Ex is on. I had checked-in and printed my own boarding pass – I sailed through security and we didn’t have to wait too long to get on board.
I thought I had reserved a seat far away from the wing, but I guess not – my seat was right above!
Context
At the beginning of 1991 I began a two year work term in Paris. A few days after I arrived I participated in one of several anti-war rallies against the first American war in the Arabian Gulf (euphemistically called “The Gulf War”). The march took about three hours and while taking photographs and chanting some slogan or other, we passed monuments, famous buildings and streets – I saw Paris so differently than as a tourist.
It didn’t take me long to fall in love with everything about Paris – except the attitude. Twenty years (and a few months) later Paris is still Paris and the attitude has improved tremendously.
I thought I’d blog about my twentieth anniversary visit. It will be composed mainly of photographs with some nostalgic musings about places revisited and perhaps some new surprises.
Cafe With Picasso
Cafés at the Musée Picasso in the Marais
Revolutionary Window Display
May 2008 was the 50th 40th anniversary of the May 1968 student and workers protests to shake up the old society.
“Run, comrade. The old world is behind you!”
Jardin du Luxembourg
I don’t think we ever figured out the name of these beautiful trees…
Colophon
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Un grand merci to Reg Beatty for setting up the blog for me. Without him I would be nothing.
Reg and his two falafel ladies
