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We're in Paris (not TX). This is a crowded city! People have been friendly and helpful. Cities are awfully noisy! Stuff is expensive here. The women dress much nicer than the U.S. I found the attire relatively impressive. Men in suits. I haven't seen the rough biker and tattooed types here with the crazy styles and weird hair colors. Lots of immigrants. The streets seem relatively safe. I'm thinking about visiting the Paris catacombs. Interesting read.

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Get back to work...young whippersnapper!!!...Someone has got to pay into my ss! I need some new tats and a nice gold earring.!!!!

 

Enjoy your trip. I have yet to get to Europe but it is on the list.

Karl

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What about us ex-sailor biker doctors? Are we scumbags too? Dat be raysis.

I'd expect and ex-sailor or a "real" biker to have tattoos and maybe piercings. A 19 year old non-veteran punk with tats and piercings is just a punk. A 19 year old girl with tattoos and piercings is disgusting. But I guess that's my yankee-puritan heritage coming out.

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We saw an oriental guy in a head lock between a cop's knees. He was hollering and trying to get away. 2 cops got him down. I might have some pics of it for when I get back.

 

The scooter/bikers drive crazy like Italy.

 

Eiffel Tower really is big. This is not a cheap city. 64 per person to get into the Louvre Museum. We skipped and rode around up top on the "Big Bus". High schoolers were on smoke break. Reminded me of the 70s.

 

I think they have more wine than food in Paris, & I'm not joking.

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My Uncle was a professor of French and so loved all things French, well except for de Gaulle , he and his friends would bring home wines and French foods of all types. I never cared much for the food , far too rich, but the bread was not bad, not as good as Italian bread mind you, but not bad. However, when I was older, I did like French wines and the Brandy was out of this world.

Enjoy pal

karl

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What about us ex-sailor biker doctors? Are we scumbags too? Dat be raysis.

 

Have phun over there. Bet it is like Louisiana in that you can't get a bad meal in the whole place.

Several years back I visited a museum in Philadelphia that showed medical abnormalities. Mostly in jars filled with a liquid preservative. The general public had to wait as it was closed to the public and two groups medical students accompanied by teachers were visiting and listening to the instructor's lecture. I was really surprised by the appearance of a few of the younger medical students. Tats and piercings on a few. A woman waiting in line with me asked a museum employee about a freakish looking lady student in particular. Asking "is she going to be a Dr." The employee pointed to the students in two groups naming the schools saying those will be MD's and those are DO's.

 

Doc you are absolutely spot-on about the food in Louisiana. I spent a week there back about 89. I got hooked on the side walk stands selling po'boy sandwiches in New Orleans and the happy hour crawdads were delightful. The only place I was disappointed was a fancy New Orleans restaurant with a 400lb world renown chef. I just can't recall his name. We had to wait over an hour to get a seat and the menu prices broke the bank. The blackened fish my step-daughter ordered was really good but everything else wasn't any better than a typical mom n pop restaurant.

 

Just east of the Texas border was a small town with a huge billboard saying something like "home the famous deep fried corn on the cob" I got the Cajon style that immediately made my nose run it was so spicy hot. Step kids and X opted for the sweet type. After my corn was rolled in corn meal and spices it was deep fried in lard. The sweet ones were dipped in what smelled like a molasses solution before being fried. Not really healthy but it was so tasty we went out of our way to stop there on the way back to Phx. Best of all each one was less than a buck a piece.

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My Uncle was a professor of French and so loved all things French, well except for de Gaulle , he and his friends would bring home wines and French foods of all types. I never cared much for the food , far too rich, but the bread was not bad, not as good as Italian bread mind you, but not bad. However, when I was older, I did like French wines and the Brandy was out of this world.

Enjoy pal

karl

My grandfather brought home from WW1 France a recipe for green beans and almonds. Delicious but as you say a bit rich. I can recall him mixing in heavy cream and real butter a minute or so before taking it off the stove.
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My medical school had a collection of oddities in the gross anatomy lab. It was very impressive. A cyclops, for instance. You just don't see a cyclops very often, now do you? The lab was on the top floor of the old medical school building and the top floor was wiped out in that last hurricane they had. I hope the collection survived. It was irreplaceable.

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Are we speaking of a classical "Cyclops" very big with one eye?

 

karl

I wonder if he got a 50% discount from the ophthalmologist!!

 

It was Mutters Museum in Philly I couldn't remember the name of. I don't recall any Cyclops. Did see some heads with horns, skulls that looked like Grey Aliens some really weird looking human fetuses of Siamese twins and an 1800's photo of a child with a penis so incredibly large it would have made John Holmes feel insecure. My tour group was told an old photo of a hermaphrodite's business area and some others sexual in nature were removed from public viewing due to complaints. I didn't hear the question but heard the guide respond to somebody in my tour group's question. "Some might consider it child pornography".

 

Sorry Tony for jumping off track, hope you enjoy Paris. I hope someday before I croak to travel in Europe.

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That's okay. Today we toured the Roman ruins of Trier. Luxembourg was interesting. Well off nation due to banking. Ww2 history of Luxembourg is interesting. I saw a building with bullet holes, and one building in Paris like that too. We're on the Moselle River headed for the Rhein. If I pull a Patton and, "Piss in the Rheine" I'll probably get caught. Lots of hills with vineyards and neat villages. Tomorrow is Cochem. Avalon is our cruise line.

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For the wine hangover get a drink from the Lourdes Fountain.

AZ

 

That would be a "Blessing"

sorry the devil made me do it!

karl

A semi-retired Dr that was contracted by my brother's insurance co to evaluate the risk on multi-million dollar life insurance policies. Joined with a group of retired American Dr's to investigate the Lourdes Fountain. The Dr described tumors shrinking overnight and disappearing within a week. I also heard second hand the Dr making claims of hearts, kidneys and other organs repairing themselves many overnight. The downside was, it was something like one out of tens of thousands being miraculously cured. The American Drs were going to study a group of 10 people, not the water. That had a medically documented miracle cure. The Dr told my brother "I've seen it with my own eyes". Telling my brother he saw it on X-rays, CAT and PET scans. Ironically the Dr my brother knew died during the study. He was in his mid-80's.

 

I find it a bit hard to believe the hocus-pocus cures. However during the coarse of my treatment and the top of my dresser looked like a pharmacy. I read up on some of the meds I was taking. I was a bit surprised to read about the placebo effect in drug studies. Always a number of people being cured or their health or quality of life improving by a pill the are led to believe will work.

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Hi all, I'm not used to being served and pampered, so we're starting to feel the itch to head home soon. We'll be in Bamberg tomorrow, then Nuremberg, then bus to Prague. The swans are beautiful. I'd recommend this trip. River cruises are geared to the older set, since they have the funds. Most people are 50s to 60s. We

Are among the younger. Only one young couple, traveling with their parents. Miltenberg was one of the best stops on the River Main. Lots of locks. It will be interesting to go through Nuremberg and the Sudetenland. I'd love to go on a metal detecting tour. Most of our crew are Hungarian.

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