A few random photos (for those not on Facebook)
Sainte-Chapelle ceiling
Outside the Louvre
Venus de Milo
Outside The Louvre
Arc de Triomphe
Under the Arc
Our rather small kitchen - two hotplates and a microwave
Varanasi, Delhi and the end
March 27th - Thursday I spoke in an earlier post about street widening and how they simply remove the front rooms. Well here's what that looks like. We were picked up at 5:30am for a sunrise cruise along the Ganges and joined by a local guide. Cars are not allowed in the old part of town, so we parked about 1km away and walked. Many thousands of people come here everyday to worship and/or bathe in the river and the streets were very full. We wound our way through the hordes stopping to be blessed by a Yogi. He was extremely flexible and sat with the soles of his feet touching and up under his chin. We continued down towards the bank before climbing aboard a boat. The cruise was pretty peaceful and the buildings were lit very nicely by the rising sun. It was fascinating watching the people bathing. We were on the boat for about an hour before returning to the dock. Our guide then took us through a number of back streets, showing various sites, bu...
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