Archive for April, 2006
Apr 25th, 2006
Google Maps
Google Maps now has maps of most of Europe, including Paris and Amsterdam. This is very exciting.
For me, anyway.
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Apr 24th, 2006
Amsterdam Audio Tours
This site offers a couple of walking tours of Amsterdam.
I’m particularly excited about the Rembrandt tour.
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Apr 21st, 2006
Itinerary Changes
Also, after poking around looking at fares and flight times, I’ve had a bit of a rethink on the itinerary.
To whit, I believe it will be more advantageous for us to fly into Paris and out of Amsterdam.
So I have changed the sidebar to reflect these changes.
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Apr 21st, 2006
Another apartment rental site
A rental site called Paris Attitude, found via the Paris Voice Magazine web site.
This one looks like it has some good inexpensive rental units. And lots of them.
Added to the sidebar.
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Apr 19th, 2006
Cinèma Trail
Cinèma Trail is a new website produced by PDIF.com, the official tourist website for Paris, to coincide with their new promotion campaign “Paris au Cinèma”. Here is an article from the New York Time about it.
I must say I love the idea behind the promotion, but the web site is a bit flawed in the execution. For instance there is a section called Wanders and Walks. Now a title like that would lead one to believe that is contained walking tours of locations used in various films, but not really. It instead offers general descriptions of films shot at in a particular location without providing details.
I was hoping for something more along the lines of the Rick Steves walking tours. In particular, a map with spots marked off and a short description of what was shot there and when.
I think this is still a good idea, and perhaps someone will come up with something along these lines sometime.
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