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Hi Everyone! Voilà! Some Paris highlights ….
Sightseeing
The Eiffel Tower has been celebrating its 120th birthday all year with exhibitions and the party isn’t over yet! If you are in Paris between now and December 31, you are in for a spectacular Eiffel Tower light show. While I was photographing vignettes of the show, the oohs and aahs made me think that I was watching fireworks.
The show times are 8, 9, 10 and 11 p.m. Talk about bang for your buck (or euro) – the light show is the usual five minutes of sparkles and then 12 minutes of multicolored lights and designs. Visit the Eiffel Tower website for more activities.
The Catacombs are closed until the end of 2009 due to acts of vandalism during the night of Septemer 14 and 15. Vandals attacked the displayed bones and lights causing damage severe enough to cause the closing of the 1.7 km (1 mile) path. Paris has about 300 km (186 miles) of underground galeries, quarries, and these catacombes. A guard discovered the damage but there was no forced entry at the Colonel-Rol-Tanguy entrance. It is believed the vandals entered through one of the old quarry entries. The Catacombes (Denfert-Rochereau) averages about 300,000 visitors a year.
Carnavalet museum – The portion relating the Revolution is closed for renovation. However, from the 25,000 objects normally exhibited, the museum has put together a temporary exhibition of 200 objects.
Between September 30, 2009 and January 3, 2010 you can also view an exhibition on English caricatures drawn during the Revolution.
Transporation
The RATP has a guide available on the web for how to use the Metro and RER.
Metro Line 1 that traverses Paris is on its way to a 2012 event: driverless – Line 14 was the first.
Façades are being installed with automatic doors along the 25 station platforms in preparation for this changeover. The RATP should accomplish this by the end of 2010. These multiple changes should ensure the security and fluidity of the metro traffic through the city.
The New Year’s Eve schedule for the Paris metro, RER, buses and tramway is still under discussion. They will post a definite schedule in mid-December. In the meantime, read their conditional response on my blog post.
Children and Entertainment
Marionnettes and Guignols – I put together a little video on puppet shows in Paris as well as images of what to find in the area for the kiddies. Read more about taking the kids to the “Guignols” on Champs Elysées.
Food
L’Atelier des Chefs – Pull out your basic French translation book for the words via video, learn the pleasure of cooking. Scroll down their web page to the words “Les recettes en vidéos”. The recipes are seasonal. Their website now has recipes written out and even if you do not understand French, I like to say that visual is multilingual.
Courses are given in Paris and other parts of the world. More on l’Atelier des Chefs in the future.
That’s it for now…. Enjoy!