{"id":68478,"date":"2019-09-01T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/09\/02\/sunday-night-delayed-i-was-a-free-man-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:04:29","slug":"sunday-night-delayed-i-was-a-free-man-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/09\/01\/sunday-night-delayed-i-was-a-free-man-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night (delayed) – I was a free man in Paris …,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got home at 3am last night so blogging in the morning .. if waking at 11:30 still counts as morning . Church bells woke me up.. more Hannah and Olivier wedding fun today<\/p>\n

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I have the Joni Mitchell song ‘free man in Paris’ going through my head<\/p>\n

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I was a free man in Paris ,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I felt unfettered and alive<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

nobody was calling me up for favors,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one’s future to decide …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a great feeling.. (slight hangover notwithstanding:-)<\/p>\n

We had a great day in the city yesterday …. my best ever here and I’ve been in Paris more times than I can remember . I think it was being here with so many friends and having a few native guides and translators.<\/p>\n

Diane and I began the day with a 4 mile run down to Notre Dame and back.. it was so weird seeing it so damaged<\/p>\n

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Right around the corner,We found a cool market that was just selling birds<\/p>\n

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We got back just I. Time To get ready for the bachelor and bachelorette days. The girls were going off wine drinking and we were headed to the catacombs and then out beer drinking<\/p>\n

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The line to the catacombs was over an hour\u2026 So we bought some food and beer<\/p>\n

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The catacombs them selves were pretty crazy\u2026 Stairs leading way deep into the lime stone quarries below Paris\u2026 In the 18th and 19th century many old church yards were emptied and the bones brought down to ossuarys Below. The tunnels were just enough to stand up in\u2026 There were miles of tunnels lined with neatly stacked leg bones and skulls\u2026 There’s somewhere between two and 6 million bodies interred here<\/p>\n

Only 200 people are down there at any one time to prevent crowding<\/p>\n

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Gabe visited the gift shop and found this perfect addition to his duck collection<\/p>\n

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I found this perfect addition to my cr\u00eape collection<\/p>\n

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Next we all metroed up to a jazz festival in the Northwest part of town<\/p>\n

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There we ran into more of Olivier’s friends..<\/p>\n

Including Matthieu who Has the same hat as I do and oliviers brother in law Alexey and his daughter Lisa<\/p>\n

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And there we drink more beer..<\/p>\n

Then we stopped at a restaurant on the boat at one of the canals and drink even more beer\u2026 At this point the waiters were telling us to keep it down\u2026 I guess we were being too noisy<\/p>\n

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On the way to the next restaurant and next place to drink beer we ran into these guys that were fishing scooters and shopping carts out of the canal. Barry and Devon helped<\/p>\n

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When pleasure of the day was discovering these outdoor pissoirs <\/u>. They would never fly in the United States\u2026 Because you’re out in the open but man are they convenient<\/p>\n

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Then we’re walking with more beer drinking<\/p>\n

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The. A snack<\/p>\n

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The. Another bar .. this time pastis<\/p>\n

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The. A midnight walk to a mysterious meetup<\/p>\n

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The surprise was that Matthew had reserved a karaoke place with the girls who’d also been out all day<\/p>\n

Karaoke was sooooo fun.. and more drinking<\/p>\n

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Then a rather wobbly walk home at 3 am<\/p>\n

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Now another day in this crazy city<\/p>\n

More tonight<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got home at 3am last night so blogging in the morning .. if waking at 11:30 still counts as morning . Church bells woke me up.. more Hannah and Olivier wedding fun today I have the Joni Mitchell song ‘free man in Paris’ going through my head . I was a free man in Paris … Continue reading Sunday night (delayed) – I was a free man in Paris …,<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68532,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68478\/revisions\/68532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}