Traveling is a mind-expanding experience. In this series of blog posts, I would like to share with you some of my personal experiences as I have been lucky enough to travel to many places in the past.
Let's start with Paris.
PARIS
The Champs Elysee, (translation Elysian Fields) would have to be a number one like for just about any visitor to Paris. It's just a wide street with restaurants, stores, movie houses, and coffee bars, but -- it's the Champs Elysee. It reeks of ambiance and charm and you remember a stroll along it's pathways forever.
Then there is Montmartre. Five hundred people in a square that would comfortably hold fifty and every one a tourist, with the exception of the dozens of street artists, carrying pencils in one hand and a book of pastel paper in the other. You might think that with a description like that there was nothing to like but it is Montmartre the area of Lautrec, and Van Gogh, and Gauguin and it is a thrill to walk the streets in spite of the overflowing tourist trade.
The Eiffel tower, especially at night when it fairly effervesces with light, would have to be high on my list and I've photographed it many times trying to capture this icon of France.
I love the left bank and Michel's bakery for the crispiest, and therefor to my taste, the best croissants in the world. Here also are the restaurants and coffee houses you feel comfortable in, with prices that do not require a bank loan. I still recall, with a shudder, an $85.00 menu price for a shrimp cocktail at the Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel tower.
Also there is the Louvre to visit, the Seine to walk along, and the Ritz for a bowl of onion soup.
But perhaps most of all after training over a hundred in the PDQ concepts, it's just sitting at the outside table of any of a hundred small bistros and sipping cafe au lait while watching the passing parade.
Have you been to Paris before? What was it like for you?
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My name is Burt Goldman. I’m one of those “lucky people” who discovered a secret early in life. For the last 50 years, I have been traveling the world and meeting and studying spiritual masters from every inch of our planet. Now, at the age of 82, I'm ready to share with the world what I have learned. I started this blog to be able to share with you my most valuable teachings and insights I have gained over the past few decades. Here, you'll find plenty of valuable information on meditation, energy healing, spirituality, and my latest revelation, Quantum Jumping. I look forward to connecting with you and I sincerely hope you enjoy being a part of this blog.
