Sights and experiences in Paris:
More fashion in every store window than I can fathom
Immigrants from Senegal are now selling the trinkets that 40 years ago..the French sold.
Lots and lots of expensive motor cycles/bikes with winter lap warmers.
Chocolate is everywhere…and I ate a lot of it.
The Metro like London’s Tube has the best people watching…
Walking in Paris, like NYC, London and Barcelona….is the breathing of global realities.
The Memorial to the Martyrs of Deportation in Paris near Notre Dame is a military memorial…highlights those who resisted…and Jews.
My heart is in very good condition..I walked to the top of Notre Dame and all the steps through Momartre up to the Scare Coeur…but I still gained weight eating.
Walking through the Paris Flea market…is amazing, right next to North African leather jackets and tennis/basketball shoes..
When you get out of the train station at Versailles the first things you see are a McDonalds and Starbucks!
Shouldn’t there be a law that outside of America we are banned from such shamelessness?
We need more cafes! In both Paris and Copenhagen..regardless of the weather, people stopped and sat down and talked…we need to bring European cafes to us if they get Starbucks and McDonalds?
The amount of Euros..guesses are as much as 12 Billion Euros (???) being spent on Versailles’ restoration is OBSCENE…no matter the source(s)…the greatest symbol of opulence in European history…nothing left of the peasants’ world except the Millennial Goals which could be reached sooner if the West chose to postpone the restorations of history’s extravagances… how strange that the gold leaf around window frames and roof frames is necessary in order to bring Versailles back to pre-revolution elegance…even as there are 6,000 children @ day that will die for lack of clean window…how can we do this…? In our world of truly obscene gaps between wealth and poverty we have yet to achieve even a consensus on human communal obligations to each other. I and my family have all we NEED and in my view should NOT have all we WANT at the expense of some having merely what they need to survive!
Marais…Paris’ Jewish quarter…we felt immediately at home…challah warm…great pickles…art…books…Jewish stars…
Louvre and Muse D’Orssey… Art that sustains the soul…provides perspective from within history..the restorations and modernization of the Louvre is thrilling…
Leaving Paris...and Denmark reminds me that the WEST is called DEVELOPED...past tense while India is called DEVELOPING...present tense. The truly historic and uplifting civilization of the WEST cannot be merely 'past', yet landing in Mumbai with its teeming streets filled with garbage is where the future is being forged...its past is surely as grand in every aspect but not as accessible as seeing Paris...I am wondering if our use of words has backed us into a corner of many misunderstandings.....I need to think about this...
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"When you get out of the train station at Versailles the first things you see are a McDonalds and Starbucks!
ReplyDelete"Shouldn’t there be a law that outside of America we are banned from such shamelessness?"
Agreed! But just appeal that to the U.S. Supreme Court. Starbucks and McDonalds are people, too. Maybe the Supremes will come after you for infringing on the corporations' civil rights.