Reply #83: I was blessed with an opportunity to visit Paris in 2000

[BadGimp]

My older brother won a sales contest and his lovely wife was afraid to travel to France. So I got the call. Woo Hoo!

It was my nephew Derek (who studied all the online sources and was the most amazing familia tour guide) my brother and myself. Derek made all the difference. We rented bikes for 2 whole days and rode all over that city. I am left only to believe that God had a hand in making Paris, Paris. What an amazing city.

What struck me most was the realization that the French understand human history much better than we do. They lived so damn much of it.

Get this: Under the Louvre Museum main entrance is the ground floor of a castle circa 1100-1200 I think. But under that (one level down) is the ground floor of a medival castle that dates back to a few hundred years after the birth of Jesus of Nazereth. Holy crap, that's old.


We maybe go back 400 years here right?