Paris through those who are gone

Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the largest and most famous cemetery in Paris was founded in 1804 in the gardens adjacent to Villa Mont-Louis, donated by Louis XIX her confessor, Père Lachaise (Father Lachaise). Hence the name of the cemetery. In a warm afternoon we went (by metro) to the cemetery. Each of...

Paris - step by step

Full of music impressions after the jazz concert,  we got a still greater desire for visual effects – we decided to start with  the Musee d'Orsay. It was as a very impressive decision of  Paris city authorities to waive the demolition of a decaying train station and turn it into an art museum. Not ...

Already in Paris!

EasyJet took us to the airport Orly, from which, by tramway (!) and metro we got to our hotel in the 6th district - right on the Boulevard Saint-Germain - in the heart of the Latin Quarter. I wondered why the university district is so called. Well, in the Middle Ages until the French Revolution in ...

Ottawa Centretown

We are spending our last day in Canada we spend in downtown Ottawa which is called here Centretown. Unfortunately, the temperature dropped to 12 C, which with fairly strong wind made us shorten the walk and sit longer over beers…. We show today's capital on a Friday, during lunch hours. It looks li...

Lunch in Ottawa, Nepean neghbourhood

Of the hundreds of restaurants it is to difficult to choose one original that would surprise us with their food which we have not tried before. After discussion it was decided: let's go to lunch the Koreans who run a restaurant  offering Asian cuisine "fusion" type with a little bit of everything. ...

Niagara-on the Lake

Niagara-on-the-Lake - a town located 20 km from the Niagara Falls. The town is located in the corner formed by Lake Ontario and flowing into it the Niagara River - the border river with the United States. On the other side lies of the lake Ontario lies Toront, whose silhouette can be seen on the ho...

An evening at Niagara Falls

At the end of the day at the Niagara Falls we stopped at an Italian restaurant. Outside, it was raining harder and harder; obviously, not only under the Waterfall  were we  supposed to get wet... We had to give up the walk to see night illumination of the Falls. So, we took care of  a 1.5-liter bo...

The Niagara Falls

The  Niagara Falls are also all known to everybody. Everybody have seen thousands of photos and videos. Probably one can say it's boring. We also used to think so: Big deal! Any way, it was an extraordinary experience and put us in an excellent mood. This may have been because of the water splash a...