The Smithsonian Libraries / Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitised gorgeous Art Nouveau and Art Deco prints of beetles, butterflies and more by Emile-Allian Seguy. Developers have expanded on an app that lets you block your wife. After the Paris Exposition, London wanted its own tower to attract attention (apparently the Tower of London was not enough). The…
After we finished at the Eiffel Tower, we walked along Le Seine, on the way to Musee D’Orsay. The skies threatened to unleash, but no rain ever actually came down. The Grand Palais The Grand Palais left, Pont Alexandre III middle, Petit Palais right The Grand Palais, from across the river The view from Pont…
Knowing it would be crowded, we left the hotel in plenty of time to arrive at the Eiffel Tower before it even opened. We waited in line that really wasn’t very long for an elevator to take us to the 2nd level. It was bit overcast and grey, but the worst part was fending off…