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That’s One Big Tower

Monday, September 4th, 2006

3:01 PM, 9-4-06

So the Eiffel Tower. It really takes seeing the tower to truly realize it. It’s just so big. I’d seen pictures, of course, but I’d never really comprehended the immensity of the great steel creature. (At least, I think it’s steel…) As I had wandered Paris, it had loomed in the distance, as if it were some kind of embodiment of modernity watching over the antiquity of Paris. From a distance, it had not appeared particularly humungous. [read on]

Paris, City of…well you know.

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

11:41 PM, 9-2-06

Paris. Oh, Paris. It doesn’t take an ounce of imagination to see as clear as day why it is known as the city of love. Like a fine wine, it gets better with time, infusing with taste, color, and age. Elegance and romance, modern styles, it’s unlike any other city I’ve visited, which is not to say it is better, but merely that it is in a whole other realm.
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