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Last days in Paris

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We moved from Paris to Bombay. Yes it is a big event in our life and we

are still not sure whether things will fall in place at the end or not.

We are trying our destiny – but we are not sure what will be there for

us???????? Well lots of questions and raising eye-brows from friends and

families.

But this post is not about why we left Paris and why moved to India. It

is all about how we spent our last one week in Paris. Before leaving, we

wanted to take pictures of those which makes Paris so desired

destination for tourists. No doubt it is one of the most visited place

in the world be it for Eiffel Tower or Champs Elysees.

As our time for departure was coming close we tried to visit few of the

well known

Brasseries

or Bistros to hidden street corners to

passages

away from busy tourist area. We did our best, but weather was not very

happy with our move and unexpectedly August was very grey with clouds

and rain all those thirty-one days. It is a month when almost every

thing stands still in Paris or France from bakery to fashion-store to

office- “tout le monde”. As every one heads towards sea “au bord de la

mer” for getting “bronzee” sun bathing. If you come back from vacation

with out noticeable change in color your vacation is not well spent.

Not only, we took lots of pictures and uploaded to [**our

gallery**](http://www.flickr.com/photos/santm/) but we reorganized them.

It was very long and meticulous process with thousands of pictures to

sort and write their details as much as possible. In a way it was great

to know more about Paris. All credit goes to Pamela for the same. With

less than 16 hours to go before the movers were to arrive I rushed to

La Defense

to take pictures, 

YES!! It was crazy but its worth for people like me (amateur

photographer) as it allowed me to capture those tall buildings with blue

sky after washed by rain.

Although, I am not sure if any one going to visit Paris is going to read

this post and check our pictures or not. But, somehow I got a feeling of

“been there – did this…did that…” and I am very content from heart for

the same

As we spent our last two days in cleaning after the movers left before

handing over our apartment keys to our landlord. In this process with

lots of small things to be done on other hand at last moment like

closing the bank account, getting official papers from office etc. we

got so tired and exhausted that we could not effort any long to run and

take pictures of “Parisians in roller blade”.

This post is getting bit longer than I thought so I will split the last

few days and hours in another one. Keep reading ….

31 Aug   2006

Souvenir

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28 Aug   2006

Door code

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