what a day. it was really amazing. the short summary of it is that there were widespread and highly charged up protests throughout the route, the procession was repeatedly disrupted, cut short, many banners were put up, lots of Tibetian and RSF flags were waved. stunning.
now for the details.
i guess it’s a big thing here: liberty. they like as much to meddle in other’s affairs as america does. the olympic flame is arriving in paris on monday, the Mairie de Paris (er i guess that equals to something like government administrative unit of paris? crap it’s hard to translate stuff without a page [...]
“Seule Paris est digne de Rome; seule Rome est digne de Paris”
Paris and Rome are Sister Cities. Something to do with fostering contact and cultural links. I never knew it was an official thing. Anyway I was wiki-surfing, and read a whole bunch of stuff about Paris, crap there’s so much I don’t know.
Anyway I [...]