{"id":2439,"date":"2025-10-04T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:19:38","slug":"goodbye-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I write this on the train to Barcelona, having left Paris this afternoon. It\u2019s been an incredible month of adventuring, and we\u2019ve logged many miles walking the streets, museums and galleries. There have been so many highlights, I don\u2019t know where to begin, but will pick some of my favorite images\/moments to share. In a funny turn of events, it\u2019s Dan who\u2019s been dedicated to a daily journal, and he\u2019s working to catch up and document each day. Me\u2026 I\u2019m too busy eating escargots and onion soup, planning adventure (though Dan\u2019s come up with some great ones, too), and working threads of surrealists and sacred feminine (will leave those for another post).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our last meal at Rita, our favorite local restaurant<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One of the great things about staying for a month is that we\u2019ve had the luxury of settling into a neighborhood\u2026 our regular boulangerie, grocery store, caf\u00e9\u2014places where we\u2019ve got to know the people and become familiar faces to those who live here. I love that feeling, and am grateful to be able to travel this way. It\u2019s also a whole lot cheaper to rent by the month, so recommend if you\u2019re on a budget (hey all you remote working friends, take note!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding our lock to the Sacr\u00e9 Coeur fence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve been eating these since I was a baby. Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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La Seine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tuileries Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tracking surrealists in Montmartre cemetary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then things get surreal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tour Eiffel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just before full moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy tourists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Friend reunion after 30 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She holds the stories of my youth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not all of us made it this far. Remembering Todd Bourgeau and all the fun we had<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bois de Boulogne on a hot day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Notre Dame Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Notre Dame Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Behind lies the crown of thorns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zero point of Paris. Kaydra the Vortex Hunter searches for ley lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chocolate chaud and cream. Don’t be fooled by the photo, I had most of this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dan incognito in Canada shirt and happy with his kosher sandwich, Le Marais<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pantheon in background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Philharmonic building in La Villette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can’t get enough of this building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Practicing altered views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hall St Pierre exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is what I went to see instead of the Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crypts below St. Sulpice Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Luxembourg Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chillaxin’ in Luxembourg Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tomb of St. Genevi\u00e8ve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Galleries Layfayette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from top of the Gallieries Lafayette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arc de Triomphe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also Arc de Triomphe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great graffiti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jardins d’Acclimatation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prettiest bird I’ve seen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Needs no introduction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sculpture garden, Louvre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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12 mile day walking the Louvre (and we went back again!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Line to see Mona Lisa, a little crazy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I fell in awe, in love, in inspiration, in adoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good night, Louvre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Queen’s Hamlet, Versailles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Queen’s Hamlet, Versailles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Queen’s Hamlet, Versailles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We rented bikes to tour around the Versailles Palace canal and surrounding forests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles fountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles fountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Royal Carriage House exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles Opera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Playing with camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Louvre day 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Keep dreaming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saint Chapelle. No photo can do this justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the Labyrinth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First thing we find… a hookah smoking catepillar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Come have tea with me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The compass… key symbol in my novel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kay loves dragons… burn that palace down, baby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Such fantasy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another labyrinth, slightly smaller scale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oldest tree in Paris, Black Locust planted in 1601<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Lady and the Unicorn single panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tomb of Heloise and Abelard, Pere Lachaise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On my first trip to Paris, I visited Jim Morrison’s grave before anything else. This time, at the end of my time here. Still cried.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Surreal? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can’t keep them apart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Let me tell you how I used to get flowers when I was poor and lived next to the cemetery…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Never forget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rose is real<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our apartment staircase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Incredible metro system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cat loved her fur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inspiration… Will try this with my montage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Montmartre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stairs to Rita<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last dinner in Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the end, beautiful friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gare de Lyon train station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From the train, sunset on the France\/Spain border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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