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Eurostarstruck: The Louvre, 3 October 2026
April 22, 2026 - In choosing to allot our last full day in Paris to visiting The Louvre, we were not making a conscious decision to save...
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Eurostarstruck: The Musée d’Orsay, 2 October 2025
April 12, 2026 - I require minimal encouragement to go to Paris at any time, and the prospect of attending a show of Sargent’s paintings...
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Eurostarstruck: Père-Lachaise, 1 October 2025
April 04, 2026 - It was with some trepidation that I approached the famed cemetery of Père-Lachaise, as I had been the one to propose tha...
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Eurostarstruck: The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, 30 September 2025
March 28, 2026 - It is likely that you recall how, in 2019, a fire consumed much of the city’s premier Gothic cathedral. That title does...
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Eurostarstruck: Sainte-Chapelle, 30 September 2025
March 20, 2026 - The Ile de la Cité is the island in the Seine River where Paris’ history began. It was a tribal center even before the R...
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Eurostarstruck: The Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, 29 September 2025
March 12, 2026 - Vaux-le-Vicomte was the second chateau on our tour. It was half a hour’s bus ride from Fontainebleau. I had wanted to go...
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Eurostarstruck: The Chateau of Fontainebleau, 29 September 2025
March 04, 2026 - During our week in Paris, we made only one excursion outside the city limits. In the course of a single day, we visited...
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Eurostarstruck: Sunday on the Seine, 28 September 2025
February 28, 2026 - Seldom have I had a more diverting Sunday than the one that I spent in Paris with Miri and HL. We began at The Panthéon...
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Eurostarstruck: Musee de Cluny, 28 September 2025
February 20, 2026 - One of Paris’ best and least known museums is the Musée de Cluny, within walking distance of the Pantheon. This museum o...
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Eurostarstruck: The Pantheon in Paris, 28 September 2025
February 13, 2026 - The Panthéon stands in Paris’ Latin Quarter, a few blocks from the Sorbonne. It was erected in the late 18th Century as...
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Eurostarstruck: Eurostar to Paris, 27 September 2025
February 06, 2026 - I had been curious and somewhat excited about crossing from London to Paris on the Eurostar, the train that passes benea...
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Eurostarstruck: Loot in London, 22 September 2025
December 30, 2025 - There is a particular pleasure to be derived from having shared speculations become plans and then realities. So our tri...
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In the South of France, 4: By Rail to the Rhône, 19 July 2024
October 25, 2024 - The pre-Olympics security restrictions deprived us of a boat ride on the Seine River. On the Friday morning prior to our...
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In the South of France, 3: Le Marais, Part 2, 19 July 2024
October 16, 2024 - I could have entitled this “The More-ais” because I have already described most of the sites where I took these pictures...
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In the South of France, 2: Le Marais, Part 1, 18 July 2024
October 09, 2024 - The Marais is one of the oldest sections of Paris, and one of the best to tour on foot. The French aristocracy built its...
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In the South of France, 1: Return to Paris, 17 July 2024
September 30, 2024 - Paris was the first place in Europe that I had ever visited, so long ago that air travel was an adventure rather than an...
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