Hi from Paris, again. Here for Bastille day, which just ended. I got in in time to see the parade on TV and was late tonight in catching the fireworks. Oh well, I walked on the Champs Elysees and the Rue de la Grande Armee while it was all decked out with the tricouleurs.

Last night on the night train in from Florence, one of the people in my couchette room was a girl from California so we talked. We met up today, along with some distant friends of the people I'm staying with and lunched on Montmartre and explored the Musee de Picasso. Afterwards I went off to to Tuileries Gardens and walked all the way from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe, went up, saw the Napoleon exhibit they have up there temporarily and took about a billion pictures before returning back to where I'm staying for a nice home cooked Chinese dinner. Then back out to fight the crowds to watch the fireworks, but was too late so had to fight the crowds to return. Fun fun. Oh well. Tomorrow it's off to the train station again and off to Amsterdam for 2 nights. I'll have left and arrived in Paris a combined 3 times by train these past weeks and will have managed to use 3 different train stations. I think there's 2 or 3 more til I finish the Grand Slam.

Since I havent had internet the past few days, Ive been writing down my journals/would-be blogs. I'm now going to add them, and backdate them appropriately until I get tired of doing it, or just plain tired.So, if you want to see new entries you're going to have to scroll down...







Cathedral de la Sacre Coeur













The Champs Elysees decked out in the Tricolor














An artsy picture of the French colors under the Arc de Triomphe