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Paris Notes

Paris details

Suburbs - ????(can't read) driving to the airport -- red and white smokestacks, cell phone relay towers, antenas and then finally the return to the ritzy hotelsand communications centers that ring every western airport surrounding the airport and 

The bus was passing through Pont Nuef sores more ordinary, filled with men selling cellphones, perfumes, fromageries, boulangeries, magazine stands with decrepit old french movie stars their arms wrapped greedily around your starlets with bright eyes and come hither smiles, and two delivery men heaving brown boxes out the back door of a truck... green grocers with prunes, tabacs with spinning lotto signs and endless turkish blend tobacco or the coal black gauloise that the french love so much. It was the fall of the riots and from the expressway the burned out hulks of cars were a somber charred gray against the black and white graffiti walls interspersed between them at intervals that seems to stutter like ling ignored dreams, a glimpse of maples and poplars, a few stubborn brown leaves still clinging to each. As we moved out the of the 18th arrondissement and into the suburbs proper the grayish stone of Paris gave way to more modern stucco buildings and overpasses, billboard ads for bad french action films les dues cavilers.