I planned my trip to Paris just so I could be here during Nuit Blanche. Man, what a let down – it was nothing like the Notte Bianca party in Torino for the 2006 Olympics. Well, stuff was on fire, so I guess that’s cool. And inner-city Parisians were acting like the hooligans they are because that night France beat New Zealand in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
And the louvre was open late for free. So that’s cool too.
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I arrived in Paris on Wednesday night. On Friday I went to see a house on Rue de Travailleur in Issy-les-Moulineaux that I had lived in over 20 years ago. Then I checked out the Eiffel Tower and visited the Louvre.
At night I went out with Clara and her friend, who Sjoerd of Amsterdam fame put me in touch with. We hit Cafe Chic for the best club sandwich in Paris, and then the VIP area at Maxim’s.
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After paragliding I took a cable car from the valley up to Hotel Alpina in Murren where I had decided to stay for the night. The photo below is the view from my room balcony overhanging a 1000m cliff. Take a look at the photo on flickr if you want a bigger version.
The next day, before I left Interlaken for Paris, I took a train ride to “The Top of Europe” to see the ice caves and the Jungfraujoch glacier.
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I left Burglen early and took the mountain pass over Sustenpass to Interlaken. When I got there I went paragliding with a company called Interlaken Paragliding – fitting name, huh?
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On Monday I walked around Zurich a while and got bored, so I took off on a scenic route through the alps. My drive to Burglen took me through the Klausen Pass. The video here has snippets of me talking during the drive, but of course for the most part I was quiet, enjoying the scenery and the sound of the turbo. If you don’t understand why I’m yelling, you’re not alone – you’d have to see it for yourself to understand.
When in Switzerland what better place to stay than at Hotel Tell in Burglen? In case you don’t understand my muddle-headed ramblings (apparently it’s the altitude ;-) ) in the video, check out the legend of William Tell. The three generations of Gislers that run the hotel, Katja Gisler, Nicole Gisler, and Nicole’s mother, are fun people. Oh yeah, I loved the hotel and its prices too!
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European Party 