Showing posts with label Montmartre Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montmartre Cemetery. Show all posts

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Donald Trump and his Supporters a-la Victor Hugo

It's too bad we did not see Victor Hugo's  grave site while in Paris, France;
 though we did see his son's plot at  Montmartre Cemetery





Possible new logo?



On a more sobering note:

While waiting for my mom who was in a "Gentle Fitness " class, a couple of seniors, a lady and a gentleman, were arguing about Hillary. I jokingly stepped in to separate them as their arguments were getting too loud. She was a Hillary die-hard and he was a Trump "deplorable". I explained to them that at this point in the election...all the supporters of both camps are fully entrenched. There is nothing that any of them can say that would change the other person's mind. This election has both candidates support at around 40% a piece. The battle is for the remaining 20%. -- WP


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