So I went to the jazz club Au Duc Des Lombards last night as planned, and it was great, very relaxing, albeit stuffy down there (its a basement club).
Then I woke up this morning and took the RATP to the RER train (commuter rail) out of Paris to Versailles. I took a human guided tour [...]

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Super Tourist!
Another day of seeing the sights of Paris.
Museé du Picasso was first, apparently the Picasso family paid for the inheritance tax after his death in art, and this is the result of that. The cubist pieces are my favorite.
Then to the Place des Vosges, which is a really nice place to sit down and [...]

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It is another sunny evening in Paris, the weather here has been great. I spent most of the day travelling underground, using Paris’ RATP (Régie autonome des transports parisiens). It is a pretty easy system to understand; New York’s subways are pretty similar. Although like with Dublin’s DART, you need to keep your ticket with [...]

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Reporting live from a sleepy Sunday morning in Paris… where the clubs are still open and to most people walking the streets, it’s still Saturday night.
I’m happy to report that my head no longer hurts from Friday night – I needed to stay in my room last night and sleep to make sure.
I took a [...]

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So I am just getting up from a night out with the kids… Club Rex is a dance club not far from my hotel, which opens at midnight and stays open past dawn. The drinks are expensive, and the DJ sets were all techno. I couldn’t help but think that if I had only had [...]

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So I visited the Island in the middle of the city yesterday, and Notre Dame. The cathedral is beautiful (and enormous - seats 10,000 people), and I walked up the steps to the top of the tower.
I have to say it again - the food here is amazing. I stopped in at a bar yesterday [...]

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So I’m standing next to the Mona Lisa… just doesn’t roll off the tongue like hanging out with Jimmy Carter does.
Anyhow, I woke up this morning bright and early and said: “to the Louvre!” So I walked across the street and got in line
Ok, so I’m 3 people ahead of some Harvard type, [...]

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So I went to see Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Gate Theater on Monday night, which was a great show. I sat next to 2 nice old ladies from Glasgow who asked me about my travels, and I told them about my plans to be in London for 2 weeks. They wanted to know what [...]

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And then went to Croke Park to see Gaelic football. It was awesome, Croke Park Stadium is enormous, and was packed to near capacity (65k+ seats filled) to watch The Big Game ™, Dublin vs. Meath. I won’t give you the play by play, I’ll leave that to the experts.
I will, however, give you color [...]

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I woke up from my nap at 11pm last night and did a pub crawl, but only “late bars” in Dublin are open after 1am, so I was only able to find and down 8 pints of Guinness by the late bar close time of 2:30. Pathetic, I know. I will do another crawl, probably [...]

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