Paris Postscript

Paris October 5 - more photos

A last minute change of plans saw Chris and me in Paris early on October 5^th, the morning when Helen Clark opened the giant rugby ball. True. This inflatable ball, 12 metres high and 25 metres long, will stand just in front of the Eiffel Tower for two weeks while the finals of the World Cup are played out, showing a high-tech (7 projectors) promotional video of NZ. Due to helpful connections we managed to get inside for the speeches and early showing, and were indeed impressed. Claire Waddington and Alain Sabatier were both there, as well as several other people we knew.

We made our way across town on foot towards the station, stopping for a coffee with Alain and a photographer friend, and later at Kiwi Corner for a pie for lunch. Mine was a ‘steak of beef’ pie, circular, such as you would never find in NZ and delicious all the same. With salad. And bread. Alain and Pierre also arrived in the same spot some time later.

So the photos are largely taken between the Champs de Mars and the Boulevard St Michel. Plus the Gare du Nord and the Thalys as we headed off to Brussels.

Just a sort of postscript really.

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