You Know You're In Paris When....

Last weekend there was an international student trip to Paris. I though I would share some of the oddities there:

You know you're in Paris when the Eifel Tower is almost always on the horizon,<<




...when you find a carousel in front of a church - in this case, Sacre Coeur,>>




...when street musicians play the harp,<<




...and sing opera,>>




...when they erect a permanent ferris wheel where the guillotine used to be,<<




...when the subway entrances look like this,>>




...when the hospital is called Hotel Dieu - Hotel of God - also, Liberte Egalite Fraternite,<<




...when bail bond notices are in French,>>




...when the Christmas ornaments are made of feathers,<<




...when you can't get just one monument in a picture, this is the little brother of the Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre,>>




...when your shopping mall looks like this.... though apparently only in the Christmas season,<<



...when your subway entrances look like this,>>




...when you have a phantom living in your opera house, (Phantom of the Opera was written about this opera house),<<




...and when this is a major traffic intersection, not a parking lot.>>



There's lots more - I really enjoyed the trip. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Amy