8 posts tagged Place de la Concorde

As the price of fuel goes up higher than ever before, why not rely on pedal power the next time you’re in a metropolis? Paris is offering a tiny fleet of hybrid pedal rickshaws which are similar to those in Rome and Valencia. The rickshaw service is known as , and is more advanced as it features a battery and an electric motor that assists on steep inclines.

Funny how life catches up with you and then you believe there’s no time for the important things—like blogging! Just landed in NYC last night and am jetlagged so up at 6 am. Plus I’m staying at a friend’s place which is wall-to-wall windows so I imagine the break-of-dawn wakeup is inevitable.

Photo of Swiss Air Force jets by ping_ch used under a Creative Commons license. John McPhee, La Place de la Concorde Suisse (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984). Written more than two decades ago during the Cold War, when the threat of a land invasion of Switzerland seemed somewhat less remote than it does today, this is a short, journalistic look at the Swiss military.

A path in Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise Paris Day Three Paris is a city of the dead. History is the story of the dead. More than any city I have been to - and Guangzhou is almost as old as Paris - there is an awareness of death because you can’t escape the past.

The Place de la Concorde and Les Tuileries are two famous locations in Paris.  Here they are on a bright spring afternoon in April.

Paris is known as the City of Lights, and something special happens after dark when the sky grows dark and the monuments are lit. Paris by night is even more beautiful than Paris under the full light of the sun. This picture is taken from a room at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, a 5 star luxury hotel right on the Place de la Concorde.

what was supposed to be a grey, drizzly day turned out to be just the opposite. the sun was shining when i went out first thing this morning to get my breakfast of buttery goodness. today it was a brioche au chocolat and a croissant. after a quick breakfast, i got an early start on the sightseeing as i had a lot of ground to cover today.

Hello, Yesterday was a sunny - although cold - journey in Paris(^-^). So I decided to go out and take some pictures, saying - why not posting some pictures of Paris in my blog today?? So I went out to Tuileries garden, place de la Concorde and Musee du Louvre.