Champ de Mars – The Intentional Travelers

Todays Featured Poster • The Eiffel Tower

The iconic symbol of Paris, the Eiffel Tower is an iron tower on the Champ de Mars. Named for the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Locally nicknamed “La dame de fer” (the iron lady), it was constructed in 1887 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World’s Fair. These giclée printsContinue reading “Todays Featured Poster • The Eiffel Tower”

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Fireworks Bastille Day In Paris

A Short Story Traveling And An Unexpected Bastille Day We had been traveling through southern France for a week and intended to finish with a few days in Paris since that was where we would catch our flight home. When we planned this trip we hadn’t realized that July 14th was Bastille Day. When weContinue reading “Fireworks Bastille Day In Paris”