Gare de l'Est

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0mi2XpFY0IGqJKXDr6ZY2FBcp8R_Ob_wukbNUXy8JKMzHuqDIi6ZBMo3MLS2ORsiOmCm3DFQDEswRTncgPmpZSgFYXAQsFEuaqLW8GpUw6Rb2GCr3ZVyvHiUkvy7jW57W_-ojFNv1PY/s1600/2013+May+20+0520_30DSC_4654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0mi2XpFY0IGqJKXDr6ZY2FBcp8R_Ob_wukbNUXy8JKMzHuqDIi6ZBMo3MLS2ORsiOmCm3DFQDEswRTncgPmpZSgFYXAQsFEuaqLW8GpUw6Rb2GCr3ZVyvHiUkvy7jW57W_-ojFNv1PY/s1600/2013+May+20+0520_30DSC_4654.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Gare de l'Est</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Gare de l'Est resembles the Belle Époque generation of train stations, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the west wing is the original building of 1847.   </div><div style="text-align: center;">An interesting note: On October 4, 1883, </div><div style="text-align: center;">the Gare de l'Est saw the first departure </div><div style="text-align: center;">of the Orient Express bound for Istanbul.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On this day I was not venturing nearly that far, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but there is nothing quite so pleasant as traveling by train.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gare de l'Est</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place du 11 novembre 1918</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75010, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Gare de l'Est

Gare de l'Est Gare de l'Est resembles the Belle Époque generation of train stations,  and the west wing is the original building of ...

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Métro Gare d'Austerlitz

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfXrec4EuwPm011az-BxAa5uLyMUjziwMHumRMB-LFj3wLT9s5k_nNQEOEt3KUFRgh0F8sVOm0Mzrh2j65bd2yJYaFZnm8XLwH4rhO8Q3Wgk0HdeVrRTZxstJEi7zm1wDHjwDxbbUDNE/s1600/2013+Nov16+Paris+_20131116+207+DSC_9413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfXrec4EuwPm011az-BxAa5uLyMUjziwMHumRMB-LFj3wLT9s5k_nNQEOEt3KUFRgh0F8sVOm0Mzrh2j65bd2yJYaFZnm8XLwH4rhO8Q3Wgk0HdeVrRTZxstJEi7zm1wDHjwDxbbUDNE/s640/2013+Nov16+Paris+_20131116+207+DSC_9413.jpg" width="480" /></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;">Métro Gare d'Austerlitz</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;">As you look beyond the Métro platform, you can see the trains approach and depart.  So many of the stations now protect the awaiting passengers with glass panels and the view is only be into the darkness of the subway tunnels.  I rather enjoy the few above-ground stations and the ability, for now, to peer down the winding tracks.</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;">If you are vacationing during these holiday weeks, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">be safe and travel well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Gare d'Austerlitz</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Platform, Line 5</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75005, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Métro Gare d'Austerlitz

Métro Gare d'Austerlitz As you look beyond the Métro platform, you can see the trains approach and depart.  So many of the stations now ...

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Gare de l'Est - Dépêchez-vous!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnbKgjgybprd5FRPy9vQOgwywiM5r4sr3fLemr-jCINQ6KlReb2BkAB-8ofaHy-H66PA0kCMseZeXtiEYG3HhC8VuvhvqB4nVvAOWYiqYWvYD2-hgUkkctjldilxH34OG13Lauc-qE32s/s1600/2013+0520_27DSC_4651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnbKgjgybprd5FRPy9vQOgwywiM5r4sr3fLemr-jCINQ6KlReb2BkAB-8ofaHy-H66PA0kCMseZeXtiEYG3HhC8VuvhvqB4nVvAOWYiqYWvYD2-hgUkkctjldilxH34OG13Lauc-qE32s/s640/2013+0520_27DSC_4651.jpg" width="640" /></a></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;">Gare de l'Est</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;">Have you ever noticed the people running in train stations?  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is no different in Paris as we see these passengers hurrying off a train.  </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;">I have done the same myself, hurrying to <u>catch</u> a train </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in Madrid, in Prague, in Vienna, in Milan... and even in Paris.  </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;">Why would one need to run </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with sufficient planning of schedules and locations?  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, for one, it is never a simple matter </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to find the correct window for ticket sales.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Buying tickets on-line in advance will reduce the stress.</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;">Perhaps you will have time to sit in the station </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and photograph others who did not plan as well.  Hummmm...</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;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gare de l'Est</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place du 11 novembre 1918</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75010, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Gare de l'Est - Dépêchez-vous!

Gare de l'Est Have you ever noticed the people running in train stations?   It is no different in Paris as we see these passengers hurry...

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Vaucresson - la gare

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwi5uT_bjiJL_LfBvVH7hkd3xlfpTPiSxYYgBQOzJ39EUkPfuFxIqeK9tI-rKD6582Rcu3A5QHf6q28_1UrVz7TpcYThWhyLEcdVv1Tx8oATqm0w6VFa-h-oh4z-7V5VQbFjcAk-iaFSQ/s1600/2012+Oct+5+Friday_88DSC_8570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwi5uT_bjiJL_LfBvVH7hkd3xlfpTPiSxYYgBQOzJ39EUkPfuFxIqeK9tI-rKD6582Rcu3A5QHf6q28_1UrVz7TpcYThWhyLEcdVv1Tx8oATqm0w6VFa-h-oh4z-7V5VQbFjcAk-iaFSQ/s640/2012+Oct+5+Friday_88DSC_8570.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;">-Train station-</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;">It is good to get out of the city from time to time.</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;">Oh, the places you will see...</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;">la gare à Vaucresson </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paris suburbs</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Vaucresson - la gare

-Train station- It is good to get out of the city from time to time. Oh, the places you will see... la gare à Vaucresson Paris suburbs

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