Here's a photo of the top of the Boulevard de Clichy.
The hotel that I stayed at was about a block and a half around the corner.
Two days later, when I was back in Amsterdam, I went to the Van Gogh museum
and saw a painting that Van Gogh did over a hundred years ago of Le Boulevard
de Clichy! I recognized the place from the painting!
Here's me on my way to the Eiffel Tower. The neon sign on
the Tower reads "J=655 Avant L'An 2000." (655 days until the year 2000.) I wonder
what kind of party they're going to have there. . .
Here's me on the top level of the Eiffel Tower taken by
some Spanish guy who was trying to pick up on me. He spoke only Spanish, so I,
in French and English, explained that my husband was down on the ground because
heights make him throw up. (Actually, I had to do a lot of miming to explain that.)
Who knows? It's possible that I might marry a man who was standing around at
the base of the Eiffel Tower at that moment.
The back side of Notre Dame Cathedral. An amazingly
fantastic place. You can feel centuries of spirit and emotion stored inside.
I cried. I'm not sure why.
A photo of Jim Morrison's headstone at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
If you go there, be prepared to walk around for awhile, because Jim is hard to find.
(I even got a map and it still took an hour!) Me and some guy from Germany who was
visiting his girlfriend at her university went halvsies on the Pere Lachaise map.
But he let me keep it! I think the map cost about a dollar fifty U.S.
Here is Oscar WIlde's grave, also at Pere Lachaise, a very important
historic cemetery. Oscar Wilde is a very important historic guy.
This is a very commonly used meeting place in the Latin Quarter.
It is a gorgeous fountain and monument. (My last sight before I had to go underground
to catch the train back to Amsterdam.)