Sunday, May 15, 2016

Unexpected Sights in Paris


Cemetery cats who looked sleek and content.  They hid in the  closest open (hopefully empty) grave  or hole whenever we approached. Eeeeeek!


Riding in an empty 1st-class car on  the  TGV .  Only one other person showed up -- and this was well into our 4 hour trip! Visual proof of Europe's lower birthrate among non-Muslims (2.2 versus 1.6 children per family)??


Too. Much. Ugly. Graffiti.





Beggars, sometimes whole families of them, on the most well-known  and supposedly most beautiful boulevard in the world,  Avenue des Champs-Élysées


 Cemetery built below street level (Montmartre Cemetery)


The overcrowding of said cemetery 
(20,000 burial plots over 27 acres)


At Père Lachaise Cemetery:  Fernand Arbelot,  musician and actor who died in 1990, 
wanted to gaze at his wife for eternity.  Oh, really?!! 

Delicious macarons at McDonald's.  Why not here in the USA?





Increasingly common: camouflaged soldiers, 3 at a time,
with their weapons  ready