Arc de Triomphe

Extracting Rent from Condemned Prisoners

August 8th 2015
Our hotel is huge and impersonal, and feels like a giant boarding house. They don't seem to have nearly enough lifts for the number of rooms and it doesn't help that one of them seems to be permanently out of service. People get in lifts that are going up even if they want to go down, just so they can get themselves into the system. We're feeling brave, so we catch the metro to the Arc de Triom ... read more

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Dave and Issy Sheehan

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Former TravelPod Member: the.sheehan Joined: June 22nd, 2015 We live in Melbourne, Australia, with our three offspring Scott, Emma and Troy, Coco the dog, and cats Sidney and Chilli. As at 2015 our offspring have all left school and should, in theory at least, be capable of fending for themselves, so as long as they don't kill each other or burn the house down, we can now happily trip off into the sunset. Issy was born in Malta. She came to Australia with her family when she was four, and as at early 2015 she's never been back. I was born in London to Australian parents who met ... full info

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