Eiffel Tower

I had to break down and purchase some Picasso/Google photo web space to continue uploading photos to Blogger.  I may just drop Flikr and stay only with Picassa since you have to buy the space on both and it doesn't seem cost effective.  In any case I can blog again, with pics.

I'm late for July in Paris, but I had a few photos lined up that I wanted to share with you.  The Eiffel Tower is so iconic and I wanted to come home with something with the Eiffel Tower on it.  In the end I bought a key chain; which I actually used as a zip pull on one of my bags, but eventually it broke.  Paris is tres expensive.  So one day I'm pottering around on Ebay and what do I come across but a lovely inkwell pen stand souvenir, that obviously someone bought years ago on their trip, with an Eiffel Tower on it.  Just perfect, it sits on my Eastlake desk.

Christy

Paris The Eiffel Tower

My blogger says I'm out of space to add more photos until I upgrade and buy something.  So this is not truly my complete post but will have to suffice for Paris in July.  The boy and I were there when he was twelve in 2006, where have the years gone.

We had a wonderful trip and I'm so glad I took the opportunity to do this with him because time is fleeting and circumstances change so my motto is Seize the Moment, Carpe Diem.

We visited the Eiffel Tower at the end of our very last day in Paris.  In all it took us three hours to buy our tickets and get up to the top and back, but well worth the wait. It was Rob who kept me going.  We had spent all day at Versailles even walking into the town for lunch and a walk around the market where I bought some lovely earings.  So I was very tired and the lines to get up the second half of the tower to the top were very long, but how could we not, who knew when we'd ever get back again. For me it was my second time up, I was last there at the age of seventeen.  Rob has never forgotten his visit to the Eiffel Tower.

Christy

Paris in July

Monday Morning

I woke up this morning Monday in the wee hours of 4:00 AM and decided to get my morning cuppa and take the laptop outside and sit on the Oak Tree Patio.

It's like stealing time out of the day, so quiet and peaceful, our little pond waterfall in the background and just the night time insects.  A lonely goods train can be heard tooting in the background such an American sound to it, very haunting, very hobo.

Then I ran across this video which I thought would be great for my Paris in July posting, I'm listening to it, it's about 5:00 AM and I think I woke the bird life up, because all of a sudden after playing this there I hear one bird starting off her or his morning song, the sky is a deep grayish blue with clouds and a new day dawns.

Christy

Fireworks at The Eiffel Tower Bastille Day

Christy

Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

I ran across this paperback at my local library it was a .25c give away and I had always wanted to read it.

In keeping with Paris in July I read Sarah's Key and then watched the film.  The book is a must read. Read the book before you watch the movie, so many more shades to the characters than can be brought out in the film.

Set in Paris, July 1942 there is a great Jewish round up known as the Velodrome d'hiver Round-up.  Sarah a ten year old girl is caught up in this and taken with her family to the Velodrome.

Fast forward sixty years to a journalist Julia Jarmond and see how their two lives become twined to one.

I will post a book review of this on my Lil Bit Brit Lit Blog later.

Christy

Paris in July

Paris In July

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Rob and I at a Paris Bistro just around the corner
from the Eiffel Tower Summer 2006

Just Remembering Paris

Just remembering our last day in Paris together, Rob and I at a little Bistro just around the corner from the Eiffel Tower.

Happy times.

Christy