Author's Note:
In the summer of 2007, I planned a trip that encompassed two weeks in Paris with four days in London sandwiched in the middle. We had planned to see Paris, the Champagne region, the Wimbledon semifinals, and the prologue of what would turn out to be a scandal-marred Tour de France. I had so many people who wanted to hear how the trip went that I ultimately decided to create this website, with real-time updates of what I was doing.
I quickly found that desktop publishing and relaxing vacations were incompatible. I bravely kept up the fight for the first week, but I sit in front of a computer for a living, so I promised the hundreds of people reading (I'm not kidding-there was a serious traffic bounce) that I would most certainly be back with an update.
Real life has intervened, as it tends to do, but I've finished it. Questions and comments can be sent to james - at - jameslyden.com. Thanks for reading!
James Lyden
Pre-trip notes, a quick note on airport security, and a brief introduction
31 hours awake, near unconscious on the Seine, birthday at the Eiffel Tower
Sacre Coeur, Pere Lachaise, and I get ruined for roast chicken for life
Boules, Jardins du Luxembourg, Latin Quarter, Pantheon
Versailles, and I'm stunned into mute silence at a grocery store line
Trip to London via Chunnel, cabdrivers, and our first rendezvous with Twitchy
Wimbledon quarterfinals and a attempt to visit the Bombay Sapphire Experience
Rafael Nadal, ALLEZ MARION!, jinxing Andy Roddick, and redheads on a train
Security at Harrods, the Tour de France prologue, and a train ride back to Paris
A rest and laundry day for us, the YouTube apartment tour video for you
Champs Elysees, Place Vendome, downpours at Hediard, and the Orsonis
Reims and the Veuve Clicquot tour, Le Petit Nicoise, and White Owls on the balcony
Place des Vosges, rascasse, the Musee Picasso and the Pompidou Center
Sainte-Chappelle, Conciergerie, Ice Cream Island, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Bofinger
Louvre Day, Musee Rodin, scalping Ferris wheel tickets, Arc de Triomphe with tricolor
Parade, the Legion, fireworks on the balcony and saying goodbye
Bob Marley, distinguished gentlemen, Americans in full repulsive splendor, home again
