three days in Paris

[feliciter]

Finally getting round to posting pics of Paris, whittled down from several to just one dozen:

The city's most famous landmark, which, unfortunately I neither ascended nor took night photos of. Opposite it on the Champ de Mars was the Ecole Militaire, the backdrop to people strolling about, sunning themselves on the grass, eating ice cream and

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[ambientlight]

aww, the eiffel tower had stars on! i agree, that arctic landscape picture is most evocative, and i love that one stained glass shot. all the photos are perfectly framed; were most of them actually taken from a bus?? if so, i applaud your skillz.

what were the flags at the Arc de Triomphe, if you remember?

(it was spring when i went to paris, and not a great deal sunnier than your photos suggest, eheh. i reckon summer is still the best time to see most of western europe, if you don't mind braving hordes of tourists.)

[feliciter]

All exterior shots except the Eiffel and Ecole Militaire were taken on board (hence the superfluity of sky), when the bus stopped or slowed down at traffic lights (though it's not so much skill as practice, given that the bus went by them at least twice per route, except for the Montmartre route D:)

The EU flag (stars) has been there since France became the president of the Union (since July 08 IIRC) and the tricolor always does, probably.

(ah, so. One of my colleagues is going there in July - must get him to post the photos on Facebook)

[flemmings]

The superfluity of sky is cool by me. You ahd a lovely day for at least one bus trip, obviously.

The French climate may have changed since my own days, but going by the '80s, July is either unbearably hot, in a country and architecture not exactly designed for heat, or cool grey and rainy. OTOH my notion of unbearably hot may not be yours. OTOOH I think Singapore relies a lot on having large windows, if not actual balcony doors, that can be opened to let, like, *air* in.

[feliciter]

I suppose it can get quite hot (and relatively humid) in summer!Paris? Which may surprise tropical visitors despite being used to temps in 30s and 98% humidity.

Singapore relies too much a lot on air-conditioning, as well as large windows, high ceilings and balconies (a major feature of colonial architecture and houses that only about 10% of the population can afford to live in nowadays D:)

[flemmings]

Can and does. The hideous summer of 2003 when 15,000 people in France died from the heat was an exceptional case. But a little heat goes a long way in a city that's all concrete with little ground-level green outside of the large parks. AC isn't a common feature, though hotels may well have it now.

[ambientlight]

nothing wrong with a good dose of sky. :D

ahh, right. should have guessed re: the tricolor (it was the orientation which got me -- looks like a horizontally-striped one), and the EU flag looks obvious now, i'm not sure why i didn't recognise it.