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I received an email from a potential renter that inquired about an apartment I rented while in Paris. I thought I would post my reply here. Hi Eric! I did stay in Apartment #108 from June 22, 2008 – June 28, 2008. This was my first time to Paris and wasn’t sure where to stay. [...]

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I have finally uploaded the last few videos that I was unable to upload to YouTube. I have also uploaded 255 photos to the photo album. The Eiffel Tower at night videos: Get the Flash Player to see this player. var sd = new SWFObject(‘https://media.dreamhost.com/mediaplayer.swf’,'mpl’,’320′,’240′,’8′); sd.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); sd.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); sd.addVariable(‘height’,’240′); sd.addVariable(‘width’,’320′); sd.addVariable(‘file’,'http://www.blog.blogmike.com/videos/spaintrip08/MVI_3939_320x240.flv’); sd.write(‘MVI_3939_320x240.flv’); Get the Flash Player [...]

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I am back in Madrid after being up 29 hours. I arrived in London and meet some guys hanging out at McDonald’s trying to kill a few hours like I was. Since January, they had been studying in Sweden and backpacking around Europe. We walked a couple blocks away from the train station and found [...]

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Right now I am here on the Eurostar traveling at light speed, well pretty much just as fast, on my way back to Paris. I arrived at the train station a couple hours early and bough some snack for my train ride and used up all my remaining Pounds. I still have about 30€ in [...]

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This morning, I woke up at 4:30 and got ready to go to London. I quickly showered and gathered all my items and headed to the metro. When I arrived, I couldn’t find a place to buy a ticket to get on the metro. What do I do? Jump the gates of course. I walked [...]

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