Paris: City of Delight

[Onkel Neal]

It's been 12 years since I was last there :cry:

Here's a great slide show (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12726262/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/), all the cool places, only missing the catacombs, underground system, and Hugo's apt ;)

Been to Paris? Post a pic here :yep:

Here's me 300 feet beneath the streets in the Roman catacombs
http://www.subsim.com/images/neal.jpg

[Tchocky]

I'll be in Paris in about two weeks. I've booked a flight home from Nice in early August, and Paris is one of the places I intend to get to before that :D

[geetrue]

Wow! Neal use to be young ...

[waste gate]

One thing I have always envied of Europe is how close everything is and the great historical treasures. I was a history major.

[Konovalov]

The Fonz would be jealous of that leather jacket Neal. ;)

I shall try to dig up some pics from our honeymoon in Paris almost 2 years ago.

[bradclark1]

http://www.subsim.com/images/neal.jpg
This is what happens to people that piss off the moderators.

[HunterICX]

http://www.subsim.com/images/neal.jpg
This is what happens to people that piss off the moderators.

Or it might be the moderators that didnt obey his will :88) ( I swear if that picture could talk Neal is saying ''Look this is the booked location for HunterICX's Skull right underneath these 2'')
:rotfl:
:-?
:o RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OT: funny as when I went on holiday with my parents years ago to france we passed Paris a lot of times but never went in the city itself...
but from what I could see out of the car windows it must be a nice city, also I had the luck to see the city from above when we flew over it 2 AM ... 10 KM high and you clearly could see the city lights really beautyfull

[Thniper]

Here's me 300 feet beneath the streets in the Roman catacombs
http://www.subsim.com/images/neal.jpg

Slightly OFFTOPIC, but ...

I'm very much interested in the catacombs of Paris and the so called cataphiles.
So my question about the picture is:

Were those skulls arranged randomly?
Because they form a pattern resembling the Venus symbol, like this one:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4720/ap011venuskb1.jpg

Neal, do you have any information on that?

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.subsim.com/images/neal.jpg
This is what happens to people that piss off the moderators.

:rotfl: Best. Post. Evah.

..and true!

[Onkel Neal]

Slightly OFFTOPIC, but ...

I'm very much interested in the catacombs of Paris and the so called cataphiles.
So my question about the picture is:

Were those skulls arranged randomly?
Because they form a pattern resembling the Venus symbol, like this one:



Neal, do you have any information on that?

No, not really, but man, you have awesome powers of observation :huh:

[Hitman]

Well I was there too some years ago. Lovely city...but I prefer Vienna :)

I'm the one with the white shirt, facing the entrance to that building (Whatever it was, can't remember now). And no, Avon Lady and Skybird, the woman with the covered hair nearby was not a muslim suicide bomber AFAIK :p


http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/22031/2001497849749150659_rs.jpg

[Tchocky]

And no, Avon Lady and Skybird, the woman with the covered hair nearby was not a muslim suicide bomber AFAIK :p

Oh. Dear.

[Konovalov]

Well I was there too some years ago. Lovely city...but I prefer Vienna :)

Yet to travel to Austria but on my to do list. :up:

[Onkel Neal]

Same here. But next on my list is Hitman's neighborhood, btw. My daughter starts college of architecture next month. In her third year she will study abroad in Barcelona, Spain :rock: And I will be taking a few weeks off to visit her and tour the country. Sweet, man!

[geetrue]

I was able to spend a few weeks a year in Spain a long time ago, but I will always remember having good Chinese food in Spain.

Why? Because Spain was so protected from being able to leave due to mountains, borders, atlantic ocean and the mediterrean sea. It became a mecca for chinese people on vacation ... strange, but true. :yep:

[Hitman]

Same here. But next on my list is Hitman's neighborhood, btw. My daughter starts college of architecture next month. In her third year she will study abroad in Barcelona, Spain :rock: And I will be taking a few weeks off to visit her and tour the country. Sweet, man!

Wow that's cool! My father also studied Architecture in Barcelona, what a coincidence (Well not that much since in those days you couldn't study it here at Valencia yet:lol: ) and I lived there a year during post-universitarian studies and then 2 more nearby due to work reasons. I'm only 350 km away from there (220 Miles, around the corner for a texan) in the coastal city of Valencia so you can count on seeing us and sharing some beers. Any information or help you need to prepare your daughter's stay in Barcelona, just ask:up:

[HunterICX]

@Hitman:

Thats about 620km
from where I live :lol:

[The Avon Lady]

And no, Avon Lady and Skybird, the woman with the covered hair nearby was not a muslim suicide bomber AFAIK :p
Oh. Dear.
Relax. It's the guy in the red shirt, carrying an explosive satchel. Oldest trick in the book. :yep:

[Hitman]

Relax. It's the guy in the red shirt, carrying an explosive satchel. Oldest trick in the book. :yep:

:lol:

Good one:up:

[Tchocky]

I'll be checking this (http://www.rawstory.com/news/afp/Pedal_power_revolution_hits_Paris_07122007.html) out, and of course reporting to base (Subsim, natch)

[tycho102]

Were those skulls arranged randomly?
Because they form a pattern resembling the Venus symbol, like this one: Neal, do you have any information on that?
I do. Watch "We Built This City: Paris" on discovery HD.

The central Paris cemetery was completely full up during one of the really horrible floods in the early 1800's (I think). There was a huge outbreak of cholera from all the decaying bodies, making the problem even worse. A decision was made to vacate the entire central cemetery to the western outskirts of the city.

I don't want to go into morbid detail, but they had to move the unburied bodies with large-scoop shovels. They had decayed to that point. The buried bones were also moved. After cremation, the bones were taken down into the catacombs underneath the whole city. That place is like a honeycomb. Anyway, rather than just piling bones into heaps, they were arranged by size and shape to get absolute maximum density in the catacombs. People get bored, lots of dead bodies, might as well make something "artistic" to do some kind of justice to a mass-grave.

So, the.....uh.....morticians make skull candles and torches and everything else you see. Including those skull arrangements.

[Thniper]

Thanks for the info, tycho102. :up:

[Hitman]

Yes, interesting info, :up: so it looks like it wasn't the Quake symbol either :hmm:

[NefariousKoel]

The Fonz would be jealous of that leather jacket Neal. ;)

I shall try to dig up some pics from our honeymoon in Paris almost 2 years ago.

I didn't realize Neal and yourself got hitched. :o

[Tchocky]

Typing from Victoria station, only 11 hours bus to Paris!

w00t!

[Konovalov]

The Fonz would be jealous of that leather jacket Neal. ;)

I shall try to dig up some pics from our honeymoon in Paris almost 2 years ago.

I didn't realize Neal and yourself got hitched. :o

:oops: :oops: Damn. The secrets out. :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, and Koel owes us a wedding gift! :lol: