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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8325866, member: 128351"]I know this area in Paris, near the Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (and its Cabinet des Médailles). It may be called the numismatic area, for there are many other coin-shops nearby... Many years ago I used to go shopping there, it was before internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like tourism too, and visiting cathedrals, castles, picturesque villages (like Gerberoy), visit vineyards and taste their production. I don't live far from Champagne and Burgundy, it's just 2 hours drive from my home. One day I even invited my in-laws to the Jules Verne Restaurant, located in the Eiffel Tower. Excellent cuisine and extraordinary view but for the same price I could have had an EF sestertius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like visiting small provincial museums who display something unique. I recommend Bayeux, in Normandy, for the museum in which you can see the Bayeux Tapestry. Or Angers, for the Apocalypse Tapestry. The next provincial museum I want to visit (1h30 drive from my home) is the museum in Châtillon-sur-Seine, it displays the Vix Vase, a monumental intact bronze Greek crater, the kind that adorned Greek temples and is represented on the staters of Thebes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8325866, member: 128351"]I know this area in Paris, near the Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (and its Cabinet des Médailles). It may be called the numismatic area, for there are many other coin-shops nearby... Many years ago I used to go shopping there, it was before internet. I like tourism too, and visiting cathedrals, castles, picturesque villages (like Gerberoy), visit vineyards and taste their production. I don't live far from Champagne and Burgundy, it's just 2 hours drive from my home. One day I even invited my in-laws to the Jules Verne Restaurant, located in the Eiffel Tower. Excellent cuisine and extraordinary view but for the same price I could have had an EF sestertius :eek:. I like visiting small provincial museums who display something unique. I recommend Bayeux, in Normandy, for the museum in which you can see the Bayeux Tapestry. Or Angers, for the Apocalypse Tapestry. The next provincial museum I want to visit (1h30 drive from my home) is the museum in Châtillon-sur-Seine, it displays the Vix Vase, a monumental intact bronze Greek crater, the kind that adorned Greek temples and is represented on the staters of Thebes.[/QUOTE]
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