the arc

i meant to get out to the coast for the remainder of my days in france but apparently the public transportation staff would rather spend the last three days of my trip marching through the streets of paris, hanging off each other while yelling vive la france and drinking one and a half times their body weight in expensive french booze. however, because of the strike i was able to spend some actually time around the great monuments i had rushed over the past few days. and instead of viewing paris through the lense of my camera, i enjoyed them the way most of the people around me weren't ... sober.

[the next bit of this post was going to discuss counting the pictures of notre dame ... but i got bored and didn't want to finish it. if i got bored, you surely wouldn't have made it through. i except your thanks, chocolates can be sent to my home address in Cork; if you don't know it please ask because i want those chocolates. read it here, if you dare, but you will be bored - i promise.]

that image above is the arc de triumph and was built by Napoleon to honour his troups. Just as Roman soldiers marched home under an arc after a victory, so too would Napoleon's men. However, the arc wasn't finished until thirty years after it's intended date and thus the men did not get to march home following their victory.

... there's more, but i'll be late for work. take care!