le baron rouge

This is one of my favorite bars in my immediate area. They have oysters and good wine. Aaron can better put into words why this is such a great bar. Go on and read his posts about it here and here.

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let's see if anyone notices...

Yea, It's been a while... Here's a small street near me that I like:

dhl messing up my shot

paris on fire

Nuit Blanche 2009. James just arrived and we went out to check out some of the exhibitions that are scattered outdoors around Paris for the night. We were confronted by an unusually large crowd on the northern tip of Ile Saint-Louis. I thought it was for some exhibition but it turned out to be an apartment fire. Ile Saint-Louis is the smaller of the two islands on the Seine in the middle of Paris. It's more residential than the other Ile de La Cité. Needless to say, a fire like this is quite scary given how tightly the buildings are laid out. We came back around 15 minutes later and the firemen had already put it out. Hopefully no one was hurt.

bugatti veyron

Apologies to those of you who aren't interested in cars. I spotted this during a walk in the 16th. This is one of those crazy super cars - it costs about $1.5 million. It's more exotic than most Ferrari's or Lamborghini's. It boasts 1000 horsepower from an 8L, 16 cylinder engine in a W configuration (W16). I think it's a Volkswagen design (VW owns Bugatti). It's got 4 turbochargers, is mid-engine, and has 4 wheel drive. Full throttle will bring the car over 250 mph, and James May said on Top Gear that "the tires will only last for about fifteen minutes, but it's okay because the fuel runs out in twelve minutes". Read more about it on the wikipedia entry.