I deleted the post I wrote earlier this morning. This is not a blog about politics — especially not about American politics. I violated my own rule. I hope I can be excused. Here's what I planned to post this morning. It's a few pictures of train stations in Paris.
It was April 2006, and Walt and I had taken the train from Saint-Aignan to Paris, to spend a week there. At the end of our week, an old friend from California flew in. We met her at the airport and took the train back to Saint-Aignan. That's Sue and Walt in the last picture.
I love the train stations :)
ReplyDeleteIl y a des gens bizarres dans les trains et dans les gares. Édith Piaf - Paris-Méditerrannée.
ReplyDeleteIt can be said that's what's happening in the US is unprecedented. When a mob is energized, who knows where it could lead. I keep my fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteGood choice but what has happened is so bizarre that I would have understood. Hope it has finally gone too far that action will be taken to stop the craziness.
ReplyDelete"I hope I can be excused." Not only excused, praised for what you originally posted.
ReplyDeleteMerci, Bob.
DeleteI'll second that. I was lucky enough to see it before bedtime.
DeleteI'm sorry I missed whatever it was you posted. It was a day for such things, and there will, alas, likely be more such. It ain't over, I'm afraid.
DeleteI love the train stations in Paris. I’ve been traveling by train for almost 75 years.
ReplyDeleteI think the first time I ever traveled by train was in 1970, in France. You must have been traveling by train for a decade or two before you were born!
DeleteThis is a good day for political rants, I too love train stations.
ReplyDeleteI was afraid you had zip interest in politics. I did not get to see your removed post, but when something as serious as yesterdays' "storming of the capital" it certainly couldn't have been harmful to at least acknowledge it happened? Anyhoo (as my Mother often said!), I just love european train stations! They are architectural, quaint (sometimes) and certainly we americans have seen many in all of the films we've all seen! What kind of product is Malmut?
ReplyDeleteMary in Oregon
It's Matmut and it's an insurance company. I don't know whether I have your e-mail address, but if I can find it I'll send you a copy of that deleted post.
Deleteblukazam@yahoo.com Thanks, Ken
DeleteI forgot to add something after the political part. France (especially Paris), and other parts of Europe, have some of the greatest train stations in the world. When I traveled through Europe in 1979, I had a Eurailpass (remember those?), and went everywhere by train. I loved the big city train stations, even the one in Rome, which I had been warned to be careful in. An interesting story involving a train station in the city I now live (Portland, Maine). There was a spectacularly beautiful train station building here, and when the passenger trains stopped running, the station was demolished in 1961 and a strip mall was built, which is now one of the ugliest parts of Portland. But because of that event, the Portland preservation movement was started, which is very active today. Interestingly, when train service resumed in 2001, a new "terminal" was built, which is shared with the bus company. The "terminal" is not much more than a shed.
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