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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Day Two: Paris 2015

Day Two in Paris: We spent the greater part of the morning at the Muse d' Orsey and the Army Museum where Napoleon is buried. As we wandered about, we came across a little hidden basilica in the 7th.

Paris 2015: Day Three: Notre Dame and Shakespeare and COmpany

Pretty great view for lunch

We arrived at Notre Dame as mass was in full swing

Right above the stairs

Notes left by vistors

"Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey, established Shakespeare and Company in 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren. The store functioned as a lending library as well as a bookstore.^[7] In 1921, Beach moved it to a larger location at 12 rue de l'Odéon, where it remained until 1940.^[1] During this period, the store was the center of Anglo-American literary culture and modernism in Paris. Writers and artists of the "Lost Generation," such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, George Antheil and Man Ray, spent a great deal of time there, and it was nicknamed "Stratford-on-Odéon" by James Joyce, who used it as his office.^[8] Its books were considered high quality and reflected Beach's own taste. The store and its literary denizens are mentioned in Hemingway's AMoveable Feast. Patrons could buy or borrow books like D. H. Lawrence's controversial LadyChatterley's Lover, which had been banned in Britain and the United States.

Beach published Joyce's book Ulysses in 1922. It, too, was banned in the United States and Britain. Later editions were also published under the Shakespeare and Company imprint.^[9]

The original Shakespeare and Company closed on 14 June 1940, during the German occupation of France in World War II.^[2] It has been suggested that it may have been ordered shut because Beach denied a German officer the last copy of Joyce's Finnegans Wake.^[10] When the war ended, Hemingway "personally liberated" the store, but it never re-opened.^[11]"

Mural over the stairs

Children's book written by Joyce

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Paris 2015 Day One: We arrive at our cute little studio apartment in St. Germain

Rue d Mazarine in St Germain

Our apartment is down the street from the Palete Cafe and the Paris home of George Sand. Also, around the corner is the hotel that Oscar Wilde called home after he was released from prison.

Our first glass of wine in Paris

Luxemberg Gardens

We arrived by train from Amsterdam to out little studio in St Germain

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Bruges: Day Seven and Eight

Looks like a good morning for a road trip.

We drove two and a half hours into Bruges Belgium today.
(anybody see the movie) haha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges

The infamous tower from the movie "In Bruges." There are 366 steps and it was built in 12th century





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	This church was built in 1157. It is one of the 16 Catholic Churches in the city of Bruges.

"The Basilica of the Holy Blood (Dutch: Heilig-Bloedbasiliek, French: Basilique du Saint-Sang) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Bruges, Belgium. Originally built in the 12th century as the chapel of the residence of the Count of Flanders, the church houses a venerated relic of the Holy Blood allegedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea and brought from the Holy Land by Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders. Built between 1134 and 1157, it was promoted to minor basilica in 1923.
The 12th-century basilica is located in the Burg square and consists of a lower and upper chapel. The lower chapel dedicated to St. Basil the Great is a dark Romanesque structure that remains virtually unchanged. The venerated relic is in the upper chapel, which was rebuilt in the Gothic style during the 16th century and renovated multiple times during the 19th century in Gothic Revival style."

What was once the Provincial Palace has been the post office since 1887.

Bruges is famous for their mussels, beer and waffles. I

did two out of three. :-)

Not sure what this is, but it is a cool statue.

She is reading a book.

These were in a Bruges canal. In 1488, Maximilian of Austria was imprisoned by the citizens of Bruges, and his advisor was beheaded. When Maximilian was freed, he ordered Bruges to keep swans in its canals in perpetuity as a punishment for the crime of imprisoning him.