Gare du Nord with Tricolor
Gare du Nord with Tricolor, originally uploaded by byronv2.
Our arrival point in Paris, the Gare du Nord - interestingly the direct train in from Charles de Gaulle to Paris passed Le Bourget, now just a spot on the graffiti covered railway line but this spot not far from the huge CDG airport is the simple little airfield where history was made; it was where Charles Lindbergh arrived from New York after the first solo Atlantic flight in history. I wonder how many of the huge amount of folks coming in and out of CDG each day ever realise that as they pass it