Paris, France Travel News

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Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 11:07am This list is according to Imei : Go to the viewing gallery of the Eiffel Tower at 274 meters.

Paris' Muse d'Orsay has reopened after a four-day work stoppage. Several tourist attractions in the French capital closed their doors this week after personnel went on strike.

Australians Linda and Daniel Lawson reading a strike notice in the Pompidou Centre.

It's an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by the two world wars.

People wait outside the Louvre museum in Paris, Thursday Dec. 3, 2009. The royal palace at Versailles was closed to visitors because of a museum workers' strike that has disrupted the Louvre and other French tourist attractions.

Museums and tourist attractions across Paris have been affected by a strike of workers over planned job cuts.

Parisa s top museums shut on Wednesday and the Mona Lisa kept her fans waiting as staff went on strike, protesting against cost cuts that they see as a threat to priceless art.

Some of the French capital's most important museums, including the Louvre, the Pompidou Center and the Musee d'Orsay, are closed because of a strike.

Marco and Michel engage in a little cultural exchange with a genuine Canadian canoe excursion up the Seine River, with Marco in true voyageur garb near the Pont Mirabeau.

Publisher: Artist Book Press, 176 pages, $65. Review: In a handsome and timeless book, Minnesota photographer O'Toole introduces 14 Parisian neighborhoods with classic black-and-white images and well-mapped walking tours.

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France's major tourist attractions, including the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Versailles could face closure next week because of a strike over planned job cuts, the General Confederation of Labor union warned on Friday.

On the flight to Paris for my fiance's sister's wedding, I was recounting stories from my past trip to the City of Love and was reminded of the passion, regardless of driver body type or size, for tiny, tiny, tiny cars.

For less than $10, a ride on Venice's vaporetti lets you belly up to the city's many fine palaces.

By ALEX BRANCH PARIS - The bartender had long gray hair and the sleeves of his rumpled jacket rolled up to his forearms.Three women slouched on stools over Stella Artois beers at the end of the long, wooden bar.And so much was lost in translation during our drink orders that we first got a glass filled with Campari.My wife and I wanted to see ...

A marvelous painting of a gourmand at his table hangs in the Muse Carnavalet in Paris - a portly, pink-faced figure happily gorging on a regal casserole, with a bottle of wine at one elbow and a luscious-looking souffl at the other.

Ah, Paris! The Eiffel Tower, the berets, the apache dancers, "La Vie en Rose," haute couture, zee Fransh ak-sant, onion soup, vin rouge, escargot.

By all accounts, Paris is a city happily reconciled with death: its cemeteries, from Montparnasse to Montmartre and Pre-Lachaise, aren't dour sites of mourning and mortality so much as elegiac pleasure grounds.

Paris receives more visitors than any other townin the world, but nightlife in the City of Light is not much to write home about.