We live in a day and age when people blow themselves to smithereens in order to further various causes. You have to wonder why anyone would do such a thing. In reality, most of these people are desperate, without even the slightest bit of hope for a brighter future....
Le Louvre, the famous national art museum of France, has a secret. Located in Paris, on the right bank of the Seine river, it wasn't built to be a museum at all! Instead it was initially built to be a fortress. Philip II Augustus had it constructed early in the 13th...
Our overnight flight to Paris hadn't afforded us much sleep, and though our 16 km trek through Paris on foot had been worthwhile, it had also been very tiring. We were sure glad to open the doors to our bedrooms in the little hotel near the Eiffel tower. We couldn't...
The first monument that we recognized as our taxi entered Paris was the Arc de Triomphe. It stands at the centre of la Place de Charles de Gaulle, where twelve avenues converge, right at the top of the famous shopping area called les Champs Elysées (Boy! French people...
Everyone has heard of and seen pictures of the beautiful Eiffel tower, which dominates the skyline of Paris. Most of us, however, know very little about it or its construction. In our recent trip to Paris, we learned a number of very interesting facts about this...
Groaning. This is what we all tend to do when we hear or experience something painful or when there is a burden on our heart, and when we long for the restoration of one of our burdens, it can be said that we "groan".King Louis XIV of France had such a burden, and he...
When you plan a trip anywhere in the world, you will always run into certain dilemmas. One of the ones we faced when planning our trip to Paris was whether or not to book a taxi in advance. I had searched the internet thoroughly and I had discovered several taxi...