Paris

Shorter on time today than on other days I might mention (see yesterday’s mammoth monologue about political interference in sport) (it’s better than it sounds) (really).

Thus, we head quota photo-ward and these beautiful images of Paris – specifically the Eiffel Tower in these two, but there are many more here:

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The symmetry in that top one, though. Wow.

It’s always difficult with these gallery type posts, but I think that these are the work of Hungarian Zsolt Hlinka.

You can find more of his work here.

Paris Airport Private Transfer

Nothing better than a decent trip to the airport. Someone to carry your cases, no worries on parking, pick you up from your door, drop you at the terminal.
What’s not to like?
Many places around the world offer this service, but if you’re in Paris (as I sometimes am, and as you sometimes surely will be too) then look no further than the very reasonable Paris Shuttle to get you to OLY or CDG. [Sponsored post.]

Paris Eagle video

I don’t know about you, but if I had an eagle, I’d definitely strap a camera to it and fling them both off a tall structure in France at the first available opportunity. You can’t do that with a beagle. Well, you can, but beagles can’t fly.

Or can they?

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That flying beagle is probably attempting to escape from the angry man whose internet connection he has just eaten.

But I digress. Often.

There’s great news: someone has done the whole tall structure in France thing (with the eagle, not the beagle) using the Eiffel Tower and they’ve posted the results on Youtube:

Some thoughts:

  1. Do eagles have to live with that wind noise all the time? It would drive me mad.
  2. Note how many times the eagle flaps its wings. Pretty much zero. This is how planes work.
  3. The zeroing in on the appropriate guy at the Trocadero is fairly amazing.

The guys at Freedom have used cameras strapped to their eagle to record other videos.
Go and have a look.

Incidentally, here’s what video from a camera strapped to a beagle looks like.
Far less glamorous, far more flappy ears. Just as you’d expect.

Pretty Paris

This photo by Matthias Haker appeared on my Pulse yesterday and was immediately dropped into my Pocket.

Paris

I’m no expert on the Parisian skyline, but I’m pretty sure that this is taken from the mighty Montparnasse Tower, given the height of the cameraman, the surrounding geography, and the similarity in composition to the photo in this post, which was taken from the mighty Montparnasse Tower.

Glorious.

Photo credit

Paris again

It’s been a busy old weekend full of previously avoided household chores and beer making. Alex has been playing on Google Earth with his Google Earth book and his explorations have centred mainly around Paris, due to his continuing fascination with the Eiffel Tower. Since I have very little time, impetus or energy to write reams on any particular subject, herewith a quota photo from the day he and I spent in Paris earlier this year.

There are, as ever, more here.