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Sometimes you need a little extra help when it comes to achieving a certain level of intimacy.
There are many supplements for sexual health and satisfaction on the market, but women’s supplements for sexual health tend to be a little known or discussed topic.
Below you will encounter a variety of women’s supplements for sexual health available, when a female wishes to enhance some of her sexual experiences, as well as energy.
Natural Products
When looking for a 100% natural product to stimulate pleasure, there is an item called “SEX for Women,” – a herbal supplement geared towards enhancing a women’s sexual health. The main ingredients of this selection include Saw Palmetto and Siberian Ginseng, said to increase a woman’s sex drive.
Another women’s supplement used for sexual health is “Alpine Root,” which is marketed as an alternative for ginseng. It has been proven to show overall positive changes within women’s sexual performance, desire, energy, as well as stamina. Not only does this product aid women’s sexual health, and used to treat poor memory and depression.
Lubricants
Women’s supplements for sexual health could also include lubricants created from a variety of natural ingredients. The Forever Virgin Vaginal Toner and Lubricant, created to awaken the body’s senses. This European formula has passed the test within the United States, Zurich, Paris, and Amsterdam. The product claims to encourage multiple orgasms through its unique combination of flowers, seeds, and plants. You should know that this item does not contain spermicides, artificial perfumes, colors or flavors.
Nutrients
The GH Female Super Formula is supposed to improve women’s sexual health and well being by supplying her body with necessary nutrients, as well as creating a balance within her body. Women suffering from PMS or menopause may find comfort with this product, as well as females who wish to increase their sexual desire and mood. This selection of women’s supplements helps with the sexual health of the user by improving their overall health.
Supplements
The next time you are looking for women’s supplements for sexual health, you may want to consider a female pleasure enhancer named “Sensuality.” This product provides quick results and delivers a maximum strength dose that does not disrupt a woman’s daily routine. Women of all ages can find comfort with this product, which contains isoflavones, ginko biloba, as well as a stamina blend.
The name may sound funny, but there is a women’s supplement for sexual health, called “Desire-X Horny Goat Weed.” This product aims to help a woman find their desire and pleasure. The main ingredient’s common name comes from the plant known as Epimedium Grandiflorum, which hails from China and Japan where it’s aphrodisiac properties have been respected for centuries. This product seeks results through increasing the sexual hormone production level within the user.
Another women’s supplement for sexual health is a product referred to as Maca 500mg, which is used to increase a female’s stamina and endurance. Maca is actually a root vegetable found in areas such as Peru. There is a high concentration of iodine, zinc, amino acids, as well as vitamin C, which are essential for promoting the progress of sexual fulfillment and functions.
Speaking about Paris one can’t help thinking about the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame and the Arch of Triumph. But there’s another Paris, away from crowds of tourists and flash guns. Here’s a list of original things one can do in a French capital:
1) To order chicken-soup with noodles for €4 in one of the Chinese restaurants. To understand which dishes are the tastiest one should have a look on what the Chinese eat themselves and then to ask a waiter to bring you the same. Bear in mind that the menus are in Chinese only and the waiters hardly speak French.
2) To visit a local market. Paris offers a great variety of markets: from bourgeois to the cheap ones. Go there right before closing time (that is immediately after noon). The salesmen will gladly give you fruit and vegetables for €1 as they need to get rid of the products at the end of the day.
3) To take a steam bath in the mosque’s bath-house (2bis, place du Puits de l’Ermite). You will be offered a black soap that is made by a secret formula. Don’t need to hurry. After the washing enjoy mint tea with oriental sweets and idle in the sun.
4) To pop in the La Villette Park and find a small bamboo summerhouse. To sit there for a while feeling the fascinating atmosphere of the place. Then to have a picnic with cheese and champagne on one of the lanes.
5) To swim in the Pontoise swimming-pool (19, rue de Pontoise) as the heroine of Juliette Binoche did (do you remember «Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)»?). This is one of the most beautiful swimming-pools under the glass roof. You don’t need to show any certificates of health. All you need is a swimming cap. By the way, the pool works until 11 pm what is very uncommon for Paris.
6) To feel the Bohemian atmosphere of Paris and to have a free drink at the opening day in Tokio Palace (13, avenue du PresidentWilson). This is a museum of a modern art that hosts different exhibitions once in a month. The entrance is free. The palace is huge so it’s possible to realize the craziest projects like knight tournament in a glass retort.
7) To attend the main Parisian cold store – Les Frigos (19, rue des Frigos), a present habitat of the local artists. Nearby there’s a place called Les Voutes where one can order some home-made dishes. Then go to a concert, visit a cinema or some performance that take place there almost every day.
 To visit «Mamie», a shop where one can buy a fine vintage bag or a pair of shoes.
9) To go out Paris. To visit some abbey, to look at the cells, stroll in the park, walk along forests and fields. The tranquility of this place will help you get rid of the daily stresses.
10) To enjoy a croissant and coffee in one of the numerous Parisian cafes. Choose the one where Parisian music is played. So you will feel the atmosphere of a Hemingway Paris!
Oui oui, Paris is the city of light, romance, fashion and fine food. But what happens after finishing that bottle of champagne when nature calls while you’re strolling down the Champs-Élysées? Welcome to peeing in Paris.
Quel problème?
When a city of 2.1 million people has over 30 million visitors a year, it’s obvious that there are only so many thrones one can install without chipping too much into a palace’s royal rooms. But as a tourist who recently experienced the perils of public peeing, I observed a few things that could make or break your day.
Not even a Royal Throne
The grand Palace of Versailles is sight to behold—enough to distract any bladder until the end. Alas, I almost missed my tour bus because I had to wait 30 minutes in a line to go to the loos. And listen to over-tanned Russians having an argument—probably about why the bloody hell people were taking so long.
Waiting
Maybe it’s a chick thing, but I swear some women were in there for a minimum of 10 minutes. Are they reading Madame Bovary? Doing their Lancôme makeup? Searching for wrinkles? It takes an average of 30 seconds to pee. Surely anything else can wait. The men have the right strategy: there never seems to be a line.
Pee-pay
I found it strange that in the land of ‘Liberty, equality, fraternity’ that one would charge others to pee. Yes, the equivalent of Australian 75 cents is not too bad, but imagine that multiplied by three times a day x 21 days. Or even then, at a café, having to buy a drink—which could range from $3 to up to $9—to use the loo. At least in Vienna, spending a penny to spend a penny gets you into a burgundy silk-coated room with gilt edging and a Mozart ditty to taps one’s feet to.
Commodes without the mode
If loos were fashion, then Paris ones are those tossed into after-season sale bins—with missing buttons. Or maybe their loos are like dirty y-fronts with skid marks, flung in the corner of a mouldy bathroom. Compare the French fashion faux-pas with Changi Airport toilets in Singapore, which are like Givenchy silk haute couture, fresh from the drycleaners.
Je ne comprends pas
After the wait, finally entering the cubicle, it’s not as easy as it seems. Firstly, some don’t have toilet seats, so you either have to crouch, get a cold butt and risk falling in. Then the head scratching moment: whether to flush: push, pull, yank, foot pedal or leave for automatic.
Where to go: Types of loos
Right, so now you know that to do something biologically simple is logistically tricky in ‘gay Paree’. What to do then when those three espressos to rouse you from jet-lag catch up with you?
The Loovre
Public monuments usually have loos, but there may only be three cubicles, in an area tucked behind some obscure art display. And don’t mistake Marcel Duchamp’s artwork in Georges Pompidou for a quaint European public peeing area. But then, desperate times call for desperate measures. Perhaps that’s why I saw a guy willing to risk relief on a tree behind the Eiffel Tower, which is patrolled by chaps with automatic rifles.
Blast Off
Walks between one beautiful building to the next is perhaps why Paris have the sanisettes. These single cubicle, permanent street fixtures feel like an escape pod, except instead of space age technology, you need a peg to hold your nose, and the door could open at any moment ‘in flagrante de squatto’. There’s even a rumour going around about small children being trapped in the wash cycle that occurs after 15 minutes.
Cash to Dash
Then there’s the Relais Toilettes, aka, you pay to pee. Usually found at train stations, the system works by the pe-er deciding from the menu (pee only, or shower, or both (or not!), then handing over the money to someone behind a glass screen. Usually a heavy-set lady with a sour face; ‘she who allows who pees’. So for two times the price of a two-litre bottle of water, (ranging 50-70 centimes from a supermarket) one can again walk the cobbled stones without cringing.
Bar-humbug
So why not just go into a bar? In the rush, you may not notice that the quaint little corner brasserie doesn’t even have a toilet: tricky after you’ve just gulped down a glass of mineral water to justify your presence. Or the locals perched on stools swearing at the football game sneer at ‘l’étranger’ and make you feel like Al Gore at a Shell company cocktail party.
Code of silence
Even family-friendly tourist havens like Maccas and KFC have the trick of locking their loos with keypad codes. One day, after sculling a tea, I felt like throwing a seated Ronald through the glass upon pulling the lock-tight door. Alas, it was with minor mirth that while in Nice I looked at my receipt for the first time. Yep, you guessed it. A code for the loos. Sigh.
Shopping centres may not even have public toilets, or if they do, then the signs lead you through the entire shop to reach it, right next to impulse buying items such as Evian water and tranquil water devices.
Lid of luxury
There are also the fancy toilets, but I never had the pleasure of manicure services or glossy magazines. Called the ‘PointWC’ at about 1.5 euro a visit it’s a stretch, but when you can undo all the good work with a coffee from a vending machine or buying some fake nails at the same time, why not?
General Advice:
The key is not to wait until you need to go: use the can when you can, not when you must.
To make this trip less random, buy Philippe Dorcourt’s booklet ‘Paris-Pause-pipi’, which lists and maps where all the sanisettes are in Paris. Available online for approx 2,80 euros. http://www.paris.pause-pipi.fr/
Try not to think about water while waiting in line. And set a good example. Get in and out like a rescue mission to the Congo…
Which you’d probably want to do anyway due to the filth. And as for how to use, remember the four ps: push, pull, pedal, automatic. Well the last one isn’t, but I’ve mentioned pee enough haven’t I?
Toilet jokes aside, there are many people out there with conditions who need to consider in all seriousness the availability of a toilet when going places; for men, an enlarged prostate; for women a smaller bladder during pregnancy, or a weakened pelvic floor post-pregnancy. The Australian solution to this need manifests in a government-run website for public toilet locations. The British have the ‘British Toilet Association’. But, just as we tourists cannot force the Parisians to serve tea with tealeaves, we cannot dictate the standard and quantity of public toilets. But being aware of where to go and not go can see you strolling down those Champs-Élysées instead of sprinting cross-legged until the miracle ‘W.C.’ appears.
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I have read in many places about the use of Plaster of Paris as a calcium source for both ponds and freshwater aquariums (I too have used this many years back when old timers in the hobby suggested its use for ponds to me), however with the exception of a calcium emergency (or possibly to absorb pollutants in a pond in bulk, which I have used Plaster of Paris for); Plaster of Paris is not the same as products such as Wonder Shells or Sealab blocks. My own years of use have shown me the vast difference in fish health and vitality.
In this article I will hopefully explain this a little more scientifically.
PLASTER OF PARIS:
Plaster of Paris is manufactured by heating gypsum at 120o – 160oC. When Plaster of Paris is mixed in water it dehydrates and form dense matrix of gypsum crystal.
Here is a list of ingredients of Plaster of Paris:
*CaSO4 , 1/2H2O: 97.97%
* SiO: 0.94%
* Al2O3: 0.69%
* Fe2O3: 0.28%
* MgO : 00.12%
What I see here is some Magnesium, Iron, Sulfur, Aluminum, Silicone and mostly Calcium.
Where is the Strontium, the Sodium, Potassium and more? These ratios are also NO WHERE near correct for proper assimilation.
This is not to say that products such as Wonder Shells or Kalkwasser are also spot on in these ratios, however they are much closer than this (or at least Wonder shells are). This also why Marine Buffer by Sea Chem is better for KH control as the proper ratios are applied in this product.
Plaster of Paris is a poor choice for GH or Calcium as Calcium needs to be in the proper ratios with other elements such as Magnesium to be utilized by aquatic life (such as osmotic function).
PROPER OCEAN CHEMICAL ANALYSIS:
By contrast here is the chemical composition of the ocean as a percentage:
Chloride- 55.03%
Sodium- 30.59%
Sulfate- 7.68%
Magnesium- 3.68%
Calcium- 1.18%
Potassium- 1.11%
Bicarbonate- 0.42%
Bromide- 0.19%
Borate- 0.08%
Strontium- 0.04%
Fluoride- 0.003%
Other- less than 0.001%
As you can see, calcium is actually less than magnesium, so even the Wonder Shells that I promote are out of balance here. The Calcium in Wonder Shells is used as a carrier and will raise your GH, at least the other proportions (with the obvious exceptions of Chloride and Sodium) are in basic proportion to this other than the Calcium.
For more about Calcium, Electrolytes in aquariums, please read this article:
CALCIUM, KH, AND MAGNESIUM IN AQUARIUMS; How to maintain a Proper KH, why calcium and electrolytes are important.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCEAN WATER AND INTERNAL CHEMISTY OF ANIMALS:
I brought up ocean water chemical analysis to make a point that is the plasma and internal chemistry of all animals and fish is similar in composition to the ocean. This is why many electrolytes (elements) are important in the chemistry of aquarium environment (even fish food!)
Rene Quinton is a scientist who died in 1925.
“He postulated that from the mineral point of view, human and marine plasmas are environments of the same nature. In other words, there is physical and physiological identity between seawater and the internal environment of the organism. Not only do they exhibit very similar mineral compositions, but the particular form, organization and synergy of trace elements and mineral salts that make up the saline matrix of seawater closely resemble those of the internal environment constituents.”
For more about proper Osmotic Function in fish, pleas see this article:
PROPER OSMOTIC FUNCTION
SUMMARY;
Basically my point is that all you add to your aquarium (freshwater or saltwater) should emulate this ocean ratio as close as possible, so why would you want to throw a product in your aquarium manufactured by heating gypsum?
For my full article, please visit this URL:
The Difference between Plaster of Paris and Aquarium Products such as Wonder Shells
By Carl Strohmeyer
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Information.html
The fourteenth arrondissement is located in southern Paris on the Seine River’s Left Bank. The arrondissement covers about 2.2 square miles (over five and a half square kilometers) and is home to over one hundred thirty thousand residents and about seventy thousand jobs.
Some people will want to visit its famous Catacombs, Roman limestone quarries converted to burial grounds more than two hundred years ago. In all my years in Paris I never saw the Catacombs but never felt that I missed them. But hey, that’s just me. The Catacombs were created because improper burials caused lots of disease in the famous Les Halles market district and in fact all over Paris. These quarries by no means limited to the fourteenth arrondissement definitely reduced disease but did cause many safety problems. During the construction of Paris’s newest subway line the courtyard of an elementary school collapsed. What luck that there were no children present.
You can take an authorized tour of the catacombs or explore them on your own. There’s a word for such people, cataphiles. Among the authors fascinated by the Catacombs are Umberto Eco and Edgar Allan Poe. With all the underground visits it is interesting to note that only a single death has been confirmed in the Catacombs during the last 250 years.
The Cimetiere de Montparnasse (Montparnasse cemetery) is the final resting place of many famous French intellectual and artists including Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The cemetery also has monuments to Parisian police and firefighters killed in the line of duty.
The name Montparnasse comes from “Mount Parnassus,” said to be the home of the Greek muses to the arts and sciences. To my knowledge this neighborhood was not very important for science with a single, extremely important exception. Montparnasse is home to the world-famous Pasteur Institute, one of the leaders in the fight against the AIDS virus and numerous other viruses. This neighborhood has been a center of the arts since at least the Seventeenth Century. As many other artistic neighborhoods, it boasts numerous cafes, bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. But in the old days many Montparnasse artists lived in extreme poverty. In the local cafes the rule was simple; waiters did not wake sleeping artists. In some cafes such as La Rotonde, actually in the Sixth district on the other side of Boulevard Montparnasse, the artists “lent” their work to the cafe owners until they could pay their bills. In the words of Marc Chagall, “The sun of Art then shone only on Paris.” And while some of that sunshine was in Montmartre, most of it was in Montparnasse.
The famous music hall Bobino was and still is a neighborhood fixture on the Rue de la Gaite, which lies just west of the Montparnasse Cemetery. Among its famous non-artistic residents were Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Symon Petliura, an anti-communist Ukranian political leader. History does not record whether the three ever met at Bobino or other Montparnasse nightspots.
You can immerse yourself in the spirit of the times at the Musee du Montparnasse (Montparnasse Museum) located at the former studio of the Russian-born Montparnasse painter, Maris Vassilieff. Vassilieff was quite a character; she founded a canteen for starving artists and once pushed the Italian-born Montparnasse painter Amedeo Modigliani down the stairs. Afterwards she did a drawing of the incident. The Museum offers members a monthly cultural gathering. Try as they might, I don’t think they can capture the flavor of old Montparnasse.
La Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris (International University of Paris) is a complex consisting of several dozen residences for students and visiting academics. First started in 1925, many of its buildings were designed by famous architects; for example Le Corbusier designed the Swiss and Brazilian pavilions. North of the Cite is the lovely Parc Montsouris (not translated as Mouse Mountain Park) designed as an English garden.
La Sante is one of France’s most famous prisons. It includes both VIP and high-security sectors. Founded in 1867 it owes its name (which means health) to the nearby Ste-Anne hospital. La Sante was divided into four blocks to place prisoners with others from the same geographic or ethnic environment. During the Twentieth Century it was the sight of many executions by guillotine, the last one in late 1972. Near the end of World War II on July 14, 1944 political prisoners revolted. Many were massacred by the Vichy (collaborationist) forces.
Of course you don’t want to be in Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. In my article I Love French Wine and Food – A Bordeaux Rose I reviewed such a wine and suggested a sample menu: Start with Andouillette (Chitterling Sausage). For your second course savor Esturgeon a la Libournaise (Sturgeon cooked with White Wine). And for dessert indulge yourself with Fanchonette Bordelaise (Puff Pastry with Custard and Meringue). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be only too happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.
In his younger days Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten computer and Internet books. Now he prefers drinking fine Italian, German, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods and the right people. He knows what dieting is, and is glad that for the time being he can eat and drink what he wants, in moderation. He loves teaching various and sundry computer classes at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his Italian travel, wine, and food website www.travelitalytravel.com and his Italian wine website www.theitalianwineconnection.com.
The 20th arrondissement of northeastern Paris is located on the Right Bank of the Seine River. Its land area is 2.3 square miles or a sliver less than six square kilometers. The population is over one hundred eighty thousand and the district is home to about fifty five thousand jobs. The arrondissement contains two special neighborhoods, Menilmontant and Belleville discussed below but we’ll start with the Twentieth’s number one tourist attraction, the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, the largest cemetery is Paris and frankly one of the best-known cemeteries in the world. This slice of Paris attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. While there are several metro stations serving Pere-Lachaise many tourists prefer the Gambetta station right near the tomb of Oscar Wilde and from there its downhill in more ways than one. This property occupies almost 120 acres (almost 50 hectares) and includes several war memorials.
This unusual tourist attraction is named for Pere François de la Chaise, confessor to Louis XIV, who lived on the property some three hundred years ago. For health reasons cemeteries were banned in Paris way back in 1786. When Pere-Lachaise Cemetery was established by Napoleon in 1804 it was far from the city. To drum up business the remains of La Fontaine and Moliere were transferred there the same year. Then in 1817 the supposed remains of the famous couple Abelard and Heloise were reinterred on the property. Within a few years its population went from a few dozen to well over thirty thousand. Today over three hundred thousand have been buried without counting those who were cremated. The notables who repose here include the French writer Honore de Balzac, the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, the Polish composer Frederic Chopin, the American dancer Isadora Duncan, the American singer and songwriter Jim Morrison whose grave has a full-time security guard, perhaps the French Resistance leader Jean Moulin, the French singer Edith Piaf, and the Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
The Mur des Federes (Communards’ Wall) is also located in the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery. This marks the spot where 147 Communards, the last ditch defenders of the Belleville workers’ district, were shot in May 1871 effectively marking the end of the Paris Commune. The cemetery and in particular the wall are a short of shrine for French left-wingers and many of their leaders are buried in the vicinity.
Belleville which means beautiful town is a Parisian working-class neighborhood situated mostly in the 20th and 19th arrondissements with a bit of overflow into the 10th and 11th. It was once an independent village and distinguished itself during the fight for the Second Republic in 1848 and the Paris commune from 1870 to 1871. It’s quite a colorful area and is home to a large Chinese community. Tuesdays and Fridays you’ll find farmers from the region selling their wares in an outdoor market on Belleville Boulevard. Many artists now live and work in this district. According to popular legend the incomparable singer Edith Piaf was born under a lamppost on the Rue de Belleville. This part of Paris was featured in many films including the 1951 Casque d’or (Gold Cap), the 2003 Triplets of Belleville, and the 2007 biography of Piaf, La Vie en Rose (Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses), the name of one of her signature songs.
Of course you don’t want to tour Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. Let me suggest a sample menu: You might start with Escargots de Bourgogne (Snails in Parsley Butter). For your second course savor Fondue Bourguignonne (Beef Fondue). And as dessert indulge yourself with Poires pochees au vin de Bourgogne (Pears poached in Burgundy Wine). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.
Levi Reiss authored ten computer and Internet books, but would rather drink fine French, German, or other wine, paired with the right foods. He loves teaching computer classes at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his Italian travel, wine, and food website www.travelitalytravel.com and his wine, diet, health, and nutrition website www.wineinyourdiet.com.
Every Paris travel guide seems to have something to add to the already voluminous information available on such well-known spots as the Louvre and Orsay museums, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Eiffel Tower.
Yet what about discovering the quaint neighborhoods of the 19th century Paris? Or taking pictures of the inn built for the paupers by Nicholas Flamel in the 15th century (yes, that’s the same Nicholas Flamel written about in Harry Potter)?
In my reckoning, there’s a truly interesting way of discovering Paris, and that’s to take the less traveled path. The one I take with my friends when we visit the French capital.
So, let’s assume you are as eager as we are to learn something new about Paris, and let’s take a peek at just two of its less-well-known jewels. The next time you take the trip to Paris, you’ll be the one leading the way!
The Lutece Arena, a return into time
Before Paris became Paris, the city was the capital of the territory occupied by the Parisii, the Gallic tribe after which Paris will take its name in the 4th century A.D. There is some controversy about the original Celtic name of the city, but when the Romans invaded it in 52 B.C. under Emperor Julius Caesar, they called it Lutecia (or Lutetia).
In the 2nd century A.D., the Romans built in its middle an amphitheater of about 25,000 square feet, which could hold about 16,000 spectators. During the next century, gladiator fights and other less palatable games (e.g. offering early Christians for lunch to beasts of prey) were held for the benefit of the local Roman population.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, such games became much less popular, and as Christianity became the State religion, man-eating events ceased to be held altogether.
The arena was demolished during the barbarian invasions of 280 A.D., and the site later became a cemetery. In the late 12th century, the ruins were buried under a large rampart built to defend Paris. They remained forgotten until 1869 when they were unearthed to the greatest surprise of all historians.
At the time, the City Council decided Paris did not have the funds necessary to excavate and preserve the antique discovery, and the development project which had dug out the ruins was green-lighted.
Later on, in 1883, the site was repurchased and rehabilitated under the guidance of French novelist Victor Hugo (author of ‘Les Miserables’). A further rehabilitation project began in 1916 which unearthed the site completely. Vicious attempts at taking over the site and destroying it by unashamed, greedy, low-life real-estate developers were thwarted by the local dwellers in 1980.
How do you get to see this beautiful place which, to this day, still remains ’stealthy’?
Orient yourself on a map, take the subway to the ‘Monge’ station, and walk to No. 47 Rue Monge. Enter the hallway, walk along the corridor and there you are! Right on the sandy ground of the arena where ghosts of ferocious lions still roam in search for a human prey!
A guaranteed, amazing leap in the past, just short of 2,000 years ago!
The Botanical Gardens and their Alpine Garden
Now on to another amazing curiosity which is sure to tickle the interest of our plant-loving friends.
In 1640 A.D., under the reign of King Louis the 14th (the same king who presided over the development of the Versailles Palace), the Royal Garden of Medicinal Herbs opened its doors ‘to the general public and students’. The project had been green-lighted in 1626 by King Louis the 13th.
The Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Gardens), as it has been called since the French revolution, is actually a collection of individual gardens — each with a peculiar charm and specific plants. It houses several old structures, including the Botanical School and the Magny Mansion (built in 1650). The Botanical Gardens are a huge site with a total surface area of about 2,600,000 square feet.
Each of the individual gardens is unique and deserves your attention for each one is home to specific species of flowers, vegetables, trees, and medicinal plants. On the Botanical School’s plot alone some 4,500 plants are grown. The Rose Garden (La Roseraie) counts some 170 species of roses!
Amongst these beauties, the Alpine Garden stands out. Between the Otter Basin and the Cuvier alley (Cuvier was a famous French botanist), a 40,000 square foot parcel was delineated in 1931 for the growing of a diversity of mountain plant species.
Today, the gardeners of the Alpine Garden tend to the health of plants coming from places as diverse as the United States, China, Japan, the Balkans, Morocco, the Caucasian mountains, Spain, and the Himalaya Mountains! A total of some 2,000 species to look after.
Among the hallmarks of the Alpine Garden is its 18th century Pistachio tree. The Botanical Gardens house several historical trees: the oldest one was directly imported from the Eastern United States and planted here in 1636 (an acacia). Among other ancient trees, you can also admire a Lebanese cedar, which was brought back to France in 1734.
A visit to the Botanical Gardens and its Alpine Gardens is a whole afternoon affair. Ten minutes into the place and its quietness will make you oblivious of the hustle-bustle of the city. You will come out of your stroll absolutely ravished, marveling at the job the gardeners do to maintain this privileged environment in full bloom.
How do you access this temple of Mother Nature? Take the subway to the ‘Gare d’Austerlitz’ station. Walk to the Austerlitz Bridge (Pont d’Austerlitz) and you will find yourself on a semi-circular plaza (Place Valhubert). The entrance to the Botanical Gardens is here. It is open every day from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
And on Hemingway’s words, I leave you until Part II of this series of “Paris: New Itineraries for a Fresh View”.
” If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” — Ernest Hemingway
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Paris; it’s considered to be one of the most romantic places in the world and is ever-popular as a tourist destination. A great choice for a short break or long-weekend, there’s a dizzying array of sights and places to see and it may seem like there’s never enough time to take it all in.
While it’s certainly impossible to take advantage of all the attractions the city has to offer in a short space of time, this article has come up with a selection of five of the attractions you have to see if you’re in Paris.
It’s seems virtually impossible to escape the landmark with which Paris is most commonly associated; every film with a scene in Paris has it looming in the background, walk anywhere resembling a tourist destination and there’s people with bunches of models on a key chain trying to sell you a miniature version of it; I’m talking, of course, about the Eiffel Tower.
Built for the World Exhibition in 1889, the Eiffel Tower rises 300 metres out of the ground and stands out in the Paris skyline, visible from all over the city. Seeing the Tower up close reaffirms like no other attraction that you are in the French capital and demonstrates just what a feat of engineering it was.
A magnificent iron framework made up of around 12,000 pieces of prefabricated iron fit together with something like 7 million nails. For those that don’t suffer vertigo or get easily bored with queues you can head to the top and get a view of Paris that’s unrivaled.
Another of Paris’ most famous attractions and one of the most visited museums in the world is the Louvre. Nestled in the heart of Paris in the 1st arrondissement on the banks of the Seine, the Louvre displays around 35,000 works of art including some of the most famous pieces in history with the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Winged Victory amongst its collection.
While you may well have seen the Louvre on television, postcards or in magazines, until you’ve seen it in person there’s no way to appreciate the size of the gallery. Occupying a staggering 60,000 square metres, the Louvre sees around 8.3 million visitors a year through its equally iconic Pyramid entrance and underground lobby which also serves as one of the strangest places to find a shopping centre. Beware, though, if you plan on seeing the Mona Lisa, there’s a bit of a queue and taking in the entirety of the collection is something that could set you back a whole day at least.
If you’re still in the mood for art then it’s worth taking a stroll to the Musee d’Orsay (that’s Orsay Museum) on the left banks of the Seine and it’s collection of French art dating from 1848 to 1915. Built in the Gare d’Orsay, the railway station architecture allows the museum a unique layout with a long, high, ceilinged ground floor gallery perfectly suited for the sculptures it contains. This author suggests a bit of time should be spent taking in the model of the Opera House interior and the miniature Paris through the glass floor in front of it.
The Orsay Museum is home to a breathtaking collection of impressionist masterpieces including works by Vincent Van Gogh (Self Portrait, Starry Night Over the Rhone, The Siesta), Manet (The Luncheon on the Grass), Cezanne, Monet, Whistler (including the famous Whistler’s Mother) and many more with sculptures by Paul Gauguin and Degas’ famous studies of ballet dancers’ movement.
If you make it up the stairs to the collection of impressionist art, be sure to take a look through the large clock and enjoy another great view of the city, on a clear day you can see straight across to the Sacre-Coeur Basilica – another of those sights you should see.
Set in the Montmarte district known for its many artists, the Sacre-Coeur Basilica (which translates as Basilica of the Sacred Heart) was completed in 1914 after a pledge to build a church if Paris emerged unscathed from the Purssian war and as a moral condemnation of the sins of Paris with a basilica true to Christian traditions. The architecture stands as a contrast to the more Romanesque stylings of the city and looks more like an Eastern temple.
The outside of the Sacre-Coeur Basilica is an example of excellence in architecture and the, free to enter, interior is no exception. When you emerge, though, be warned that on a summers day the sudden hit of daylight may leave you squinting for while across yet another jaw dropping view of the city below as the basilica sits atop a hill. The highest point in the city, the butte Montmarte is no small climb even for those in prime health. Give more than a thought to the lift service and save your legs.
Another and perhaps more famous of Paris’ religious buildings is the Notre-Dame Cathedral. The religious heart of the city, the Celts had a sacred ground here, the Romans used the site to build a temple to worship Jupiter and a Christian basilica was built in the 6th century with work on the Cathedral beginning in 1163 and finally completed in 1345.
The first cathedral to be built to such a scale, the Notre Dame Cathedral is a huge testament to faith at 128 metres long with two 69 metre tall towers and a 90 metre spire which was added in the 19th century. While many of the cathedral’s famous sculptures and gargoyles were destroyed during the French Revolution many remain and the Cathedral was restored between 1991 and 2001.
As imposing as the Cathedral’s frontage is, there’s no way to prepare for the size of the interior. Walking into the Notre Dame is like walking into an aircraft hangar. The impact of which is something you can’t experience from a postcard.
There’s plenty to see and do in Paris and, when your feet have tired from walking the streets there’s plenty of coffee shops and cafes to rest and take stock in over a crepe and coffee.
Heiress of the Hilton empire, Paris Hilton has managed to break through all possible preconceptions and prove to the entire world what she is capable of. The Hilton sisters are today two of the most famous people on this planet, attracting the media and not only with their glamorous, ‘bad girl’ look.
Model, singer and actress. She already had a famous name but decided to go farther and build up her own reputation. She managed to capture the attention of the public, appearing in various TV shows and movies, launching an album and even star in the reality show called ‘The simple life’. The blond hair, blue eyes and slender, sexy-looking body positioned her amongst celebrity hotties, only increasing her notoriety.
When the United States pop singer Madonna came up with the song ‘Material girl’, she surely wasn’t thinking about Paris. Still, this ambitious yet infamous young women, has succeeded in gaining a reputation for self-love and materialism. She is well known for attending wild parties, engaging in various scandals and making sure everybody turns her eye around her. For Paris Hilton, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
If you were to take a closer look at Paris Hilton, we could definitely say she tried a little bit of everything. After designing handbags for a famous creator, she started her own line of perfumes and made sure once more that she puts her mark on them. Paris Hilton Just me collection was created for both men and women, blending various fragrances and turned out to be a huge hit.
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Paris’s starring in ‘The simple life’ with Nicole Richie only made her even more famous. For four seasons, the audience watched with eagerness the show and increased with a large percent FOX’s rating. This reality show was indeed real, the two girls having to live for a whole month with a bourgeoisie family in a small town in Arkansas. Without cell phones or credit cards, they’ve discovered on their own what really means to lead the simple life.
Paris Hilton did not manage to pass successfully through the trying experiences offered by ‘The simple life’ reality show. She had trouble adapting to chores, couldn’t keep a job and destroyed a farmer’s milk supply. Even so, the public loved them and this led to the continuance of the show. In the second season, the girls traveled across US in a pickup truck, having all sorts of adventures and enganging in plenty of fun activities.
‘The simple life’ continued with the third season when Paris and Nicole took internships along the coasts of US. They had adventures throughout every season including in the fourth when they stayed with real LA residents and performed a similar version of Wife switch. The fifth season was originally set to begin production in November 2006 and air in March 2007, but has been put on temporary hold, as Nicole has had to enter a health care facility for her ongoing weight issues. In an interview with Australian Cosmopolitan magazine in January, 2007, Paris confirmed The Simple Life will resume shooting in March, 2007, in Malibu, California. The tentative title for the season being Malibu: Camp Simple Life, she explained how she and Nicole will be counselors for multiple camps, including, but not restricted to, a beauty pageant camp, a fat camp and a couples camp.
There have been said a lot of things of Paris Hilton. The truth is that she has managed to rise above and show that alluring beauty is sometimes a powerful attribute. Chic and sophisticated, Paris Hilton has definitely something to show and she will continue to appeal to the general public. How can anyone resist her vital energy and dashing style?
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The wonderful and charming city Paris attracts the tourist from across the world every year. The capital city of France is situated at the bank of River Seine. Paris is famous for its twenty five most celebrated monuments and 40 popular museums. Except these Parks, Gardens, nightclubs, discos, Bar and pubs are other reasons to visit the city. Paris is also famous for its fashion statement and the reason behind that is the Paris fashion industry, world’s most recognized fashion industry.
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