Bugger of a night, too hot, too cold and not able to get happy medium.
Today we bug out and head to Paris, via Compiegn.
Compiegn is a forest where just prior to 11/11/1918 the Armistice was negotiated and finally signed.
It is quite remote, as the negotiations were all done in secrecy.
The negotiations and signing took place in a railway carriage, which was, after the war set up as a museum and famously the place where Hitler made the French sign the cease fire in WW2. His revenge for the Treaty of Versailles.
He then ordered the carriage be taken to Berlin where it was put on show. The Waffen SS burnt it towards the end of the war.
The carriage on site is an oxymoronic exact replica, however NO photos are allowed.
It could be said the signing of the armistice lead directly to WW2.
From there onto Paris, past Charles De Gaul airport, and rather circuitously to our hotel which is 3 minutes walk from the Eiffel, the Seinne and other things.
We had a quick walk to Napoleon's tomb, just to stretch our legs and tonight we have a final dinner together on the Seinne.
Dinner good fun cruising the river past some reasonable bits of real estate, like Notre Dame, Pont Neuf, Musee d'Orsay to name just a few.
Late finish and too tired to finish blog hence its late publication
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Today we bug out and head to Paris, via Compiegn.
Compiegn is a forest where just prior to 11/11/1918 the Armistice was negotiated and finally signed.
It is quite remote, as the negotiations were all done in secrecy.
The negotiations and signing took place in a railway carriage, which was, after the war set up as a museum and famously the place where Hitler made the French sign the cease fire in WW2. His revenge for the Treaty of Versailles.
He then ordered the carriage be taken to Berlin where it was put on show. The Waffen SS burnt it towards the end of the war.
The carriage on site is an oxymoronic exact replica, however NO photos are allowed.
It could be said the signing of the armistice lead directly to WW2.
From there onto Paris, past Charles De Gaul airport, and rather circuitously to our hotel which is 3 minutes walk from the Eiffel, the Seinne and other things.
We had a quick walk to Napoleon's tomb, just to stretch our legs and tonight we have a final dinner together on the Seinne.
Dinner good fun cruising the river past some reasonable bits of real estate, like Notre Dame, Pont Neuf, Musee d'Orsay to name just a few.
Late finish and too tired to finish blog hence its late publication
Picasa Album Pictures
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