paris - day 2

Never saw this before, and while it isn't all that special it caught us pretty off-guard. Real Chinese people doing real Tai Chi! With their very own music pounding from their ghetto blaster.

Linn stopping to read up on the history of the catacombs. A rather long hallway leads you to the actual graveyard. Things were still clean here, though a little narrow.

A little spot in the catacombs where they dug deeper to find the ground water level. Seems the didn't need to dig all that deep to get there.

Not all paths were narrow down there. From time to time you hit a lovely room like this. Great atmosphere, about 100 steps below Paris.

The entrance of the real graveyard. 6 million skeletons are buried (or stacked - as you wish) down here. Sitting and staring at you at arms length. A bit creepy alright.

Plenty of places like these down there, with niches filled with bones, skulls and crosses settled in between them.

Turn after turn, you encounter hallways like these. It seems to go on forever. After some time you get used to it all but it remains pretty impressive to see all the dead stacked like this.

You can't go to Paris without bumping into this fella. Pretty ugly, but impressive in size and still cool from close by.

You can climb this thing on foot, though I don't see who'd want to do that. Impressive web of steel wires, but a little cold during the winter.

The big brown river flowing through Paris. Plenty of bridges to admire the view from those.

And of course we paid a little visit to the aquarium. Not as cool as the one in Antwerp, but it still houses some nice underwater creatures.

Every aquarium needs a Finding Nemo fish these days, but which is the real one. Maybe these are helper Nemo fish.

A great animal this one. It decided to make a little tour around its house when we arrived. Such a show-off.

No idea what kind of creature this was, but it looked like a mixture of fish and slug. It did look a little lonely in there, poor thing.

Another lovely creature, though it looked like it had a serious air hose addiction. Wonder what was inside the fish and whether smaller creatures could survive down there.

Cool idea. Put some white jellyfish in four tubes and apply a different color to each tube. The effect is this. Shame you can't keep these at home.

When night falls, the lights go on and it becomes a huge gleaming tower. At 8 at night it even starts flickering for 5 minutes, but you can't get that on photo.

We had free tickets for this one. Top three floors are open for public, you rise 56 floors in 38 seconds. The view up there was magical.

This is where I asked Linn to marry me. You have to admit, what nicer view to have when you pop the question. Pretty creepy to stand that high is such a narrow tower though.

The metro in Paris is pretty crap. The train itself is fast enough but getting there can be a serious hassle. luckily they had some flat escalators in some sections to move things along.

A good view from La Place de République at night.