Pompidou Center Reopens

Pompidou Center Reopens: "Workers at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris have suspended a strike that had shut down the museum for three weeks."

Workers at several other major French museums and cultural institutions went on strike in sympathy, including the Musée d’Orsay, Notre Dame Cathedral and the palace at Versailles, but have since reopened.

Paris Breaks in the Marais, place des Vosges

Place des Voges is a busy courtyard in the fashionable Marais quarter not far from some famous shops and the Picasso Museum

photo by Pete Reed

Sacre Coeur, Paris

Sacre Coeur, Paris
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This is the famous Sacre Coeur, Paris on the hill at Montmartre. There's a funicular railway but it wasn't working

Dalida

Dalida
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Dalida was a singer and comedienne in Paris. This statue is in a leafy square around the back of Montmartre

ST Martin

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Walking around the streets is one of the best things to do on Paris breaks, and you never know what you might find.

This picture shows a typical old building with a narrow end where two roads intersect sharply. That because Paris isn't built on a boring square grid system like some other cities I won't mention. Let's just say that Paris breaks beat transatlantic flights any day.