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La Tour Eiffel en reflet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaw-tX1BdmKQPN344nzGXLTbpXugdoxyh57Bakt6Maq1D-iD7NRq467P745mIMPoD2z10zUhaqCRdDAnOlLhjnYTA89rsNynKQsIUCOGgkH656BQHBkTrRF_LJjb5OZ1nES6rVSoENp-k/s1600/2013+May+21+16th+arr_25DSC_5147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaw-tX1BdmKQPN344nzGXLTbpXugdoxyh57Bakt6Maq1D-iD7NRq467P745mIMPoD2z10zUhaqCRdDAnOlLhjnYTA89rsNynKQsIUCOGgkH656BQHBkTrRF_LJjb5OZ1nES6rVSoENp-k/s1600/2013+May+21+16th+arr_25DSC_5147.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">La Tour Eiffel</div><div style="text-align: center;">in reflection</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It was early enough that there was not much of a crowd,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and the tower's reflections in the wet stones </div><div style="text-align: center;">were not hampered by either tourists or hawkers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rainy days and Mondays -- still nice in Paris!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Tour Eiffel </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75007, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(from Trocadero)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75017 </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

La Tour Eiffel en reflet

La Tour Eiffel in reflection It was early enough that there was not much of a crowd, and the tower's reflections in the wet stones wer...

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La Tour Eiffel - le reflet

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9467578799/" title="2013 0521 am 17DSC_5139 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2013 0521 am 17DSC_5139" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7446/9467578799_44c263f1d8_c.jpg" width="530" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">La Tour Eiffel</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do you think that you would recognize this iconic structure </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">just by seeing a reflection in the rain-soaked pavement? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why, certainly!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place du Trocadero</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais de Chaillot</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75016, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Trocadero</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div>

La Tour Eiffel - le reflet

La Tour Eiffel Do you think that you would recognize this iconic structure just by seeing a reflection in the rain-soaked pavement? Why, ...

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Les Jardins du Trocadéro

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnau8-jUX_PKaLKlDsKmZgyb0957ucxVS3isFgy1SAQxUoHzWLTcWpC13kCRnH0sQSFnsdp-wHomaaoS2edqG8XUnjr5wcGw4f-uKBUSMQQXT92diIVDRFIgz6nDyi3KH52SzFzdn-BY/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_018DSC_4701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnau8-jUX_PKaLKlDsKmZgyb0957ucxVS3isFgy1SAQxUoHzWLTcWpC13kCRnH0sQSFnsdp-wHomaaoS2edqG8XUnjr5wcGw4f-uKBUSMQQXT92diIVDRFIgz6nDyi3KH52SzFzdn-BY/s640/2012+Mar+29+Paris_018DSC_4701.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Les Fontaines</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Fountain of Warsaw </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Between the Palais de Chaillot at Trocadero and the Seine is a garden designed by Jean-Charles Alphand for the Exposition Universelle (1878).  This array of magnificent fountains was created by Roger-Henri Expert for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in 1937.   </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you come in the evening to see the sparkling Eiffel tower, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you can enjoy the lighted display of these cascading fountains.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardins du Trocadéro</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(across the Seine from La Tour Eiffel)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75016, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Les Jardins du Trocadéro

Les Fontaines The Fountain of Warsaw Between the Palais de Chaillot at Trocadero and the Seine is a garden designed by Jean-Charles Alphand ...

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Le carrousel - XXVI

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17DQnxiXSzaU4uAiwJK4l1xhyM-3wrIsLq4MtONu9t7AuQY7ElCKb4ylDlCqF_dd3qlKJtSRGvX5LLohWG0QBhWKGePLyq5z9dlNxDh8OgRxJvmRGjg5mD1ycUV4fl0myLExcGZ1NN64/s1600/2012+Mar+29_5212DSC_5207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hea="true" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17DQnxiXSzaU4uAiwJK4l1xhyM-3wrIsLq4MtONu9t7AuQY7ElCKb4ylDlCqF_dd3qlKJtSRGvX5LLohWG0QBhWKGePLyq5z9dlNxDh8OgRxJvmRGjg5mD1ycUV4fl0myLExcGZ1NN64/s640/2012+Mar+29_5212DSC_5207.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the blue skies of this April evening turned the multi-hued shades known only in Paris, we waited for the first "twinkling" of La Tour Eiffel.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The lights on that iron beauty twinkle for about 5 minutes every hour until 1am.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They start on the first hour after the Paris street lights come on.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Little did we know that we would enjoy a show before the main event...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">soft streetlights, sculptures, a reflecting pool, fountains.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was all set off by a delightful carousel (rotating counter-clockwise) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with its calliope music playing.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The police vans?  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Manpower to catch the people selling Eiffel Tower keychains - not so magical</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><br />Carrousel de Trocadero</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Place du Trocadéro</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75016, Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Le carrousel - XXVI

As the blue skies of this April evening turned the multi-hued shades known only in Paris, we waited for the first "twinkling" of L...

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Trocadero -- Carrousel XI

Trocadero -- Carrousel XI

Two of my favorite things in Paris... un carrousel et la Tour Eiffel, bien sûr!

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Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm4jtUBxf17UrBVdCp6FDg-3LMYcvEZ4RuwyNKNExWL0UiaNUB1i69II4aObgeGscq9eYThyaA8YNv-nnje8_c-dc5HE76ZHVLumTtWkJ3aargfrYsI-ClK3qz3CrGA4BbNcWHbntjtg/s1600/2011+april+2+DSC_0452.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612219031430867698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm4jtUBxf17UrBVdCp6FDg-3LMYcvEZ4RuwyNKNExWL0UiaNUB1i69II4aObgeGscq9eYThyaA8YNv-nnje8_c-dc5HE76ZHVLumTtWkJ3aargfrYsI-ClK3qz3CrGA4BbNcWHbntjtg/s640/2011+april+2+DSC_0452.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The reproductions found here are stunning. The light in this museum is perfect for photos and because it is allowed I did not have to sneak any shots.</span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine<br />Palais de Chaillot<br />1, Place du Trocadéro</span>

Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

The reproductions found here are stunning. The light in this museum is perfect for photos and because it is allowed I did not have to sneak ...

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Carrousel IX -- Place du Trocadéro

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8BEhNk-J9yLO2WqRDbNfX-W9qlYBBfzonQrVeRcprcOhNW3MhP-nOrfSKUrbNxbz1SPrGpZHsZo-Aqv8-0RXBaIKdToiHKCYmJz35V3kp_NIx6lEr4kHaXmvAS7K_VkH6af-RlvMIjk/s1600/2011+april+2+DSC_0514.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607890909931781010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8BEhNk-J9yLO2WqRDbNfX-W9qlYBBfzonQrVeRcprcOhNW3MhP-nOrfSKUrbNxbz1SPrGpZHsZo-Aqv8-0RXBaIKdToiHKCYmJz35V3kp_NIx6lEr4kHaXmvAS7K_VkH6af-RlvMIjk/s640/2011+april+2+DSC_0514.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br />If you have been reading my blog you know that I love finding and photographing the carrousels. There are still many left to discover, but this double-decker is captivating with some unusual and artistic features. I know that <a href="http://paristhroughmylens.blogspot.com/"><strong>Virginia's</strong></a> little Davis was fond of this plane so aptly named "Le Petit Prince"<br /><br /><br />Please note that this one is added to the "counterclockwise list"<br /><br />Carrousel<br />Place du Trocadéro

Carrousel IX -- Place du Trocadéro

If you have been reading my blog you know that I love finding and photographing the carrousels. There are still many left to discover, but t...

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La Tour Eiffel en reflet

La Tour Eiffel - le reflet

Les Jardins du Trocadéro

Le carrousel - XXVI

Trocadero -- Carrousel XI

Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

Carrousel IX -- Place du Trocadéro

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