Paris! (Part 1)

This post is going to be a doozy. Tonnes of pictures, etc. etc...I mean c'mon, it's Paris! Without further ado:

The first night that we were there (I arrived in Paris by plane close to the afternoon, and after getting to the hotel and meeting up with Phil and walking around for a bit, it was already nightfall), we went to Rue des Lombards, a street in Paris known for several venerable jazz clubs. This was one of them, Le Duc des Lombards -- that evening it was a local musician with a group that played some interesting avant-garde. Besides that we just kinda walked around and took in the sights.

Our second day, I spent outside of Paris actually -- Matt, Jim and I went out on a day trip to Caen, and Juno Beach, site of the Canadian D-Day landing during the Second World War. It was good to see the memorial that Canada has put up there also, and good also to walk the beach for a while and smell the sea air. Beachside they even had a Steveson-esque fisherman's market. If I had a kitchen handy I definitely would have picked up some outstanding-looking mussels. Later that evening, upon our return to Paris we met back up to Phil and made it out to the Arc de Triomphe. One thing that really stuck out about these Parisian attractions, is how much larger than life everything looked. The pictures that everyone sees, and the pictures there are here, really don't do it justice. Everything is just simply massive!

Ach, must get back to work: I'll post more about Paris later!