Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace

The most embarrasing thing you can do when asking a stranger to take a picture is to speak slowly and use hand gestures as if you're expecting them to have a hard time understanding English only to find out that 1) they're American and 2) you feel like a total jerk.

City of Lights

August 27th 2005
The monkey is off my back! I finally got around to taking the big trip...Paris and Rome packed into a single week. Now I can get back to general weekend laziness and sleeping until ungodly hours of the mid-afternoon! So that I can light up both France and Italy on the little TravelBlog map, and so that both you and I don't get totally bored with an epic blog entry, I'll split the 'Big One' int ... read more

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Although ultimately a victor in World Wars I and II, France suffered extensive losses in its empire, wealth, manpower, and rank as a dominant nation-state. Nevertheless, France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader am... ... read more

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