The Catacombs Of Paris France

Since it is Halloween I thought it would be the perfect day to make today’s photo of the day the Catacombs Of Paris France. The catacombs from what I understand are where the bones of the dead ended up when they needed land from local cemeteries as Paris grew.

Basically, it is tunnels and tunnels under the city of Paris piled high with human bones. We took a guided tour of the catacombs which I highly recommend because they can be quite busy and the tour we took allowed us to go in before everyone else without having to wait in line.

To my American eyes this looks like a movie set but it is just another bar in Tours, France.

Travel has taught me that everything is ordinary and everything is a a wonder. What do I mean by that?

The buildings in this photo of Tours, France, are hundreds of years old. Older than the United States. The fact that they have stood the test of time and today they are just ordinary everyday buildings used but the demands of the day is fascinating to me.

In the US if a building is over 50 years old you can probably find someone who wants to slap a historical designation on it and preserve it just as is for the foreseeable future. This is why the ancient buildings of Europe fascinated me.

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This is a section of the famed Pont des Arts bridge of the Seine river in Paris, France. Sadly the tradition of attaching a lock to the bridge as a symbol of love ended in the summer of 2015 when Paris officials redesigned the bridge so locks could no longer be attached to it.

Over the years the locks became too heavy for the bridge to support and it was a matter of safety to force people to stop attaching the locks to the bridge. Read the full story here.

Thankfully we were able to visit in November of 2013 and witness the bridge first hand.

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As Americans something Joyce and I learned to appreciate on our travels was the availability of street food just about anywhere we went. Usually street food is mentioned in regards to less developed countries but we also found plenty of vendors and stalls in the Western European countries we visited.

Here Joyce is enjoying a crepe in Tours, France, a city we spent a few nights in via AirBnB before hopping on a flight to Morocco.

Yesterday I posted a small car in Amsterdam, today I am posting a small car in Paris.

During our time in Paris I discovered that many auto manufactures have showrooms you can visit and that is where we cam across this cute little car. It is so small that the two seats are arranged single file, the passenger sits behind the driver.

In Paris we did not see many of the these on the road but we saw many on the streets of Rome.

If you are looking for the perfect gift for Joyce this Christmas she really wants a Twizy.

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