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Oh La La, the girls

There are so many pretty girls in Paris; at one point last night I thought my head was going to snap off. After dinner, a friend and I went to Place Mouffetard, near to where he’d gone to school.

Oct 31 2007 - 00:00

C'est Dingue

Waiters helper, old faithful corkscrew

I hadn’t learned yet about traveling with Pelle, so I ended up on an overnight train with him from Zurich to southern France. We prepared for the long trip by bringing two coolers full of beer and a bag of potato chips. In hindsight it’s pretty obvious why the two Swiss girls we were sharing the sleeping compartment with were horrified.

Jun 30 2004 - 23:00

Back to Paris

I went back to Paris to meet my Father, but we never actually arranged where or when. In the end, we missed each other so I wandered around and got to reminiscing. I was around 12 years old the first time I went to Paris with my Father. The square in front of Notra Dame was for parking. Many of my memories from Boulevard St Michele include the smells. This is before Greek restaurants replaced the Thai, Vietnamese Algerian and French restaurants along the tight streets, and the atmosphere was thick and noisy.

Jan 10 2008 - 00:00

The Bloody Mary is not just for breakfast

Harry's Bar, Paris France

For Innes’ stag do, following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald -- drinking, not writing -- I spent far too long at Harry's New York Bar in Paris. It’s a welcoming American style bar in Paris where the Bloody Mary was “invented”. Don’t know if that’s true but they’re damn good… every last one of them. Harry's New York Bar 5 rue Daunou 75002 Paris

Dec 2 2004 - 00:00

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Harry's New York Bar

Nov 9 2009 - 16:43
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