Ramana Maharshi Video

Here is a nice and very rare video of Ramana Maharshi:

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Leftover Trip Photos

So now I have posted all the major events from our trip to Germany and Paris. Here are a few photos that are interesting but didn’t make it into the other posts.

When we were shopping in Frankfurt we stopped to rest on one of the little brick hills around the trees. Right next to us [...]

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Le Musée du Louvre

The Louvre. Is. Really. Spectacular.
Altogether the Louvre holds about 35,000 works of art, and has more than 645,000 square feet of exhibition space. We were there almost 4 hours, maybe saw 1,000 works of art, or less, and while we saw a lot we feel like we barely touched the surface. I think it is [...]

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Place de la Concorde, Champs-Elysées, Arc de Triomphe

Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde is between the Jardin de Tuileries and the Champs-Elysées. The whole time we were there they had trucks, barricades, port-a-potties and I think also a grand-stand set up around the Place. I think this was for Bastille Day, and then it was left up for the Tour [...]

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Picasso Museum

The Picasso Museum in Paris is full of the art that Picasso himself considered his best works. Not necessarily the art that is critically acclaimed.
I wanted to go because of all the famous artists, I understand Picasso the least. Some of his early pieces are ok, but his later works I really don’t like, and [...]

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Les Catacombes

The Paris Catacombs. A couple centuries ago some big cemetery started leaking into the Paris city center and so they got the idea to exhume all the bodies and move them to the catacombs.

In the turnaround next to the catacombs is this cool statue. I don’t know what it is, but i thought it was [...]

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Jardin des Tuileries

The Jardin de Tuileries was one of my favorite places to hang out and rest and people-watch while in Paris. It was built by Catherine de Médici in the 1500’s and redesigned a couple times since then.

At one end is the Louvre…

…and way at the other end is the Place de la Concorde. You can [...]

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Eiffel Tower videos

Here are a couple videos of the Eiffel Tower.

Riding down in the elevator from the 4th to 2nd level. July 12, 2009.

Eiffel Tower at night from boat ride on the Seine, you can hear the boat announcements in the background. Each announcement came in at least 4 [...]

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Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a magnificent monument. It’s just beautiful – and from so many different places around Paris you can see it and orient your direction. The first time you see it, it is impossible not to break out in a huge grin, because, there it is, what you had only seen in pictures [...]

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Le Château de Versailles

On our last day in Paris we went to see le château de Versailles, the Palace at Versailles. It’s about 30 km or so outside the city of Paris, but one metro train gets you there in about 30 minutes.
It was built by King Louis XIV, and then the Kings Louis XV and XVI lived [...]

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