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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 20:39:40 GMT
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Post by htmb on Feb 9, 2015 21:21:41 GMT
Wonderful, Kerouac. Thank you.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 10, 2015 0:24:35 GMT
I liked that very much. Very much like the real thing for me, see something I recognize, then two turns later, completely lost, then see something I recognize, then two turns later...
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Post by htmb on Feb 10, 2015 1:21:24 GMT
That was my experience, too, Fumobici. I really needed that at the end of a long day!
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Post by tod2 on Feb 10, 2015 6:06:05 GMT
Always fascinating and always intriguing to see where we are, and where to next!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 22:51:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 21:39:54 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Feb 19, 2015 6:31:55 GMT
Another visual triumph Kerouac! Lovely music too!
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Post by htmb on Feb 19, 2015 21:31:47 GMT
It's amazing the difference the right kind of music can make. When I first watched the La Defense video there wasn't any music (perhaps my tablet wasn't playing the music?). While I liked the video, it didn't hold my interest as well as the latter version. I'm glad you mentioned the music, Todd. Otherwise I wouldn't have known to go back for another look. I really need to go to La Defense at least once.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 20, 2015 9:03:05 GMT
htmb - You need to go to La Defense. I would ask Kerouac to go with you for a first visit. It is immense and we found the underground train station and metro a little confusing. Luckily the staff down there very kindly re-stamped/issued us with tickets when we took a wrong turn. You cannot begin to imagine how big it is under all those skyscrapers... we rode in a bus in what seemed an endless spiral of tunnels. The part I love best is the park and the vineyard in front of Basin Takis. The view straight down to the Arc de Triomph - especially at night with the Eiffel Tower over to the right sparkling like a diamond pendant.
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Post by htmb on Feb 20, 2015 11:44:37 GMT
Thanks, Tod! I've added it to my wish list of things to do.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 19:08:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 18:17:52 GMT
I was planning on making a relatively short video about walking from the exit of the Forum des Halles to the pyramid of the Louvre through the cour carrée. But the cour carrée is closed off at the moment for some sort of installation that they are setting up, so I just had to keep going. However, now you can see the current state of the Pont des Arts and the love locks and also wonder about how completely foolish I looked walking around holding my camera and also how sore my arm got.
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2015 19:15:28 GMT
It's really a pity about the Pont des Arts. I saw that some idiots still covered the remaining little bits with locks.
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Post by htmb on Mar 5, 2015 22:11:01 GMT
Too bad the cour carrée was closed. I like to sit there occasionally and watch people. I enjoyed the video though.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 6, 2015 14:13:23 GMT
Lovely tour with sooooooo many reminders of past visits to restaurants ( which flashed by so quickly, but I scoot that little round dot backwards several times until I'm satisfied I've really caught a glimpse of something familiar!). The Louvre - that's an unfinished project which I hope to add to this year! When I visited Paris alone I do remember criss-crossing the courtyard in front of the pyramid often in a bus to and from my excursion that day. The music was great!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 6:28:17 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Mar 9, 2015 7:59:49 GMT
Lovely walk! So nice to see places we have actually walked along - the music or should I say bongo drums made it seem the people were hurrying along even faster! Really nice movie - thanks!
After viewing there is always someone else with a movie on a Paris subject and I thought maybe Htmb and others may be interested in the creation of La Defense. Although I never understood a word I enjoyed seeing some familiar sights and was intrigued ( to say the least...) by the way the whole area was born. Please Kerouac, remove and put elsewhere if not quite right for this thread of yours.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 17:44:05 GMT
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Post by mossie on Mar 11, 2015 19:19:05 GMT
Super, really captures the essence of the place.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 11, 2015 19:39:58 GMT
The sped up walk is brilliant. Felt similar to actually doing it.
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2015 20:10:02 GMT
Wonderful! I found myself knowing exactly where you were a lot of the time and then you'd turn and I'd get mixed up again. Really superb!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 20:15:00 GMT
90% of the walk is on ultra major thoroughfares.
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2015 21:48:42 GMT
Well, if you'd slow down I wouldn't get as lost. I haven't walked much around Gare de l'Est. There was also a passage (?) I didn't recognize, though I probably should. I liked that you stopped to film the group photo. The scene of them setting up for a picture was nice to see in high speed. Was that a park?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 21:51:05 GMT
The passage was Passage Brady, the passage with all of the Indian restaurants, which were not open yet.
The group photo was in front of the Pompidou Center.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 22:01:41 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Mar 12, 2015 12:46:59 GMT
Most enjoyable - especially the part where you walk to the very end of Square du Vert Galant gardens and I can see how big 'my' little willow tree has grown. Looks drab in it's winter leaves but I will visit in September and see it all green again! The map is a great help. Wish you could do it for all of the walks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 20:41:24 GMT
Like most Parisians, I am faithful to my side of town (Right Bank vs. Left Bank), and we rarely cross to the other side unless compelled to do so. I'm sure that's why the terminology regarding the two banks appeared in the first place, because I have not really encountered it in other places other than Buda and Pest even though I'm sure it exists. Manhattan vs. the rest of NYC would be just one example. Nevertheless, I have always had Left Bank friends, which was a reason to go there. My office was even on the Left Bank for about 11 years. And the infamous café in which I participated was also on the Left Bank. The dichotomy takes years to set in. When I first arrived in Paris to live, even though I always lived on the Right Bank, I spent most of my time in the Latin Quarter, because that's where the most interesting and cheaper cinemas were, as well as the cheapest greasy spoon restaurants. Little by little it faded away as I got to know more and more about the city.
Anyway, it's just to say that this video filmed exclusively on the Left Bank is a very rare thing for me.
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Post by mossie on Mar 13, 2015 20:59:17 GMT
Another very entertaining walk. I was lost once you left Parc Montsouris until I saw the south entrance to Luxembourg
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 21:06:01 GMT
Well, just know that you were treated to the Prison de la Santé, the only prison inside Paris (and closed for renovation for the next several years) with its very famous "last pissotière in Paris." I always felt they kept it so that people being released from prison after 20 or 30 years would find at least one familiar thing. I was also a bit amused to notice that there were a number of massage parlours around the prison. That must certainly have been a priority for quite a few people being released.
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