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    Musee d'orsay is the dome in the background.: by ramsaym, Views[333]
         		 More of place de la concorde. You can see the Eiffel tower in the background.: by ramsaym, Views[374]
         		 Place de la Concorde as quite a bit of History associated with it. It used to be named place de Louis XV, but then the revolution happened and it was changed to place de la revolution and held the guillotine. I think it used to get pretty bloody. After that was all over they changed it to plce de la concorde. Place de la concorde also keeps a big obelisk (like in this picture) that was given to France by Egypt in 18 something. We couldn't figure out why. I guess Egypt just wanted to show it liked France. They're friends, apparently. Also, Place de la concorde is right in the middle of evertyhing important. It is on the
         		 These are the Military Police that were all over (no kidding, there were bus-loads of them on every street) who were, we speculated, making sure the political demonstration did not get out of hand. My guess is that they were also making sure the demonstrators did not personally deport people.: by ramsaym, Views[326]
         		 This is place Vendome. It has a lot of expensive jewelry and perfume stores lining it. Other than that, there isn't a lot to say.: by ramsaym, Views[398]
     
    This is the Opera house. We didn't get too close to it because of this political demonstration happening (it was some national holiday I think). This guy is the guy who is propsoing policies like remove every non-native French person from France or something. We didn't go any closer for fear of being kicked out of the country.: by ramsaym, Views[337]
         		 Me doing acrobatics on the metal things along the river. If my mom were there she'd say
         		 This is
         		 This made me laugh. Unfortunately I didn't do as the statue's bum told me. That would have made an even better picture.: by ramsaym, Views[368]
         		 One of my pro arm-length shots. And I totally got some of the cathedral in there! I'm a star.: by ramsaym, Views[379]
     
    Me with the Notre Dame. I really was there! See!?: by ramsaym, Views[317]
         		 Allen using his navigating skills beside the Sienne (I hope that's what it's called :S ).: by ramsaym, Views[335]
         		 The garden behind Notre Dame was pretty nice. We hung out here quite a bit.: by ramsaym, Views[334]
         		 I didn't take any pictures inside Notre Dame because the sign told us not to. I'm probably the only tourist that has ever been to France that hasn't though.: by ramsaym, Views[375]
         		 As impressed as I was with Notre Dame, I was more impressed with the mob of tourists that were trying to get in. The line was huge. We were outside in a big plaza, and I felt claustrophobic. It was crazy.: by ramsaym, Views[341]
     
    This is Notre Dame in Paris. It's pretty impressive, even if (like me) you're not all that into churches. : by ramsaym, Views[334]
         		 I honestly forget what this is. : by ramsaym, Views[363]
         		 The view from our hostel window.: by ramsaym, Views[315]
         		 This is the lounge area of our Paris hostel. It was a really great place to stay. The only down side of it was that our room was on the 5th floor, and often I'd be the guy who had to go to our room to get the garlic or the couscous, and I'd get up there and I'd forget my key and have to come back down. The kitchen was in the basement. Pretty much we had amazing quads at the end of Paris.: by ramsaym, Views[346]
         		 A big building I felt I should take a picture of. It looked important. It is right outside the metro stop, and pretty much right beside our Hostel.: by ramsaym, Views[368]
     
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         		 I figured I should get a picture of the French countryside. It changed a lot, but this is kind of what it was like. They had a lot of this plant.: by ramsaym, Views[435]
         		 Fouviere from down the hill. One last picture of it before I left Lyon!: by ramsaym, Views[445]
         		 They were having an eco-market thing happening while we were there. Everything organic and fair trade. It made me happy.: by ramsaym, Views[466]
         		 Allen in front of a traboulle.: by ramsaym, Views[421]
     
    Looking up through the traboulle. We're under a covered part.: by ramsaym, Views[395]
         		 This is a little tea room at the beginning of a traboulle. I explained traboulles in an earlier album--go look it up! (I think it was the last picture in the second Lyon album...): by ramsaym, Views[378]
         		 More of the artist market. I'm glad I didn't bing more money because I might have bought a lot... some of it was really good.: by ramsaym, Views[361]
         		 As well as a food market, there is a book market (of French books--for some reason, I was surprised by this), and an artist market. This entertainer guy was in the art market. He was really good! I needed someone to point out to me that in this picture his left arm (for us, his right) is fake. That's how he did the puppet thing. It was great.: by ramsaym, Views[431]
         		 We had tea in bowls. It was awesome.: by ramsaym, Views[310]
     
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         		 Rachel, Em, Amy, and Allen.: by ramsaym, Views[366]
         		 Allen washing things, and Amy inspecting.: by ramsaym, Views[354]
         		 Rachel and Em with our breakfast.: by ramsaym, Views[337]
         		 Sunday we had the regular brunch (except this time it was more like breakfast because people had to leave early). This is Rachel excited for food!: by ramsaym, Views[418]
     
    This is a Traboulle. Lyon was a huge silk making city back in the day. As a result, lots of it's architecture catered to the silk making industry. These Traboulles are passages that go between buildings to other buildings, and are covered. They're almost like secret passages. They were used to transport silk through the city without having to go outside (and get the silk wet if it was raining). They were also really useful during the Second World War for the french resistance.: by ramsaym, Views[622]
         		 Beside the amphitheatre.: by ramsaym, Views[379]
         		 I found this really funny. I was in a full on laugh as I took this. But mom, I swear I didn't do it!: by ramsaym, Views[538]
         		 The bottom of the roman Amphitheater. They still use the bottom part as a venue that can hold about 4000 people (compared to the 11,000 it could have held when it was used by the Romans).: by ramsaym, Views[381]
         		 The city of Lyon used to be a Roman city (I forget it's name), and these are the ruins of the old amphitheatre. As a matter of fact, the roman influence is where the
     
    The gold statue on the top of the fouviere.: by ramsaym, Views[333]
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         		 My feeble attempt at artsy photography. These are some sort of flower that was along the path. : by ramsaym, Views[814]
         		 I loved the path down from the Fouviere, mostly because of all the trees.: by ramsaym, Views[393]
         		 by ramsaym, Views[369]
     
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         		 Views of Lyon...: by ramsaym, Views[314]
         		 beside the fouviere: by ramsaym, Views[341]
         		 This was a tower that I knew the significance of at one point, but forget now. : by ramsaym, Views[327]
         		 Inside Fouviere. I think this part was the crypt area. The inside was pretty nice (for an old church) but I didn't want to take pictures because I thought it was disrespectful. There was also a sign saying not to, which was a factor in the lack of photos (though I was the only one who was deterred from photographing, it seemed). : by ramsaym, Views[321]
     
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