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Orestes Fasting

The Mizzie Tour Guide

http://www.chanvrerie.net/tourguide/index.html

Because yes, I am pimping it all over the internet.

Remember the various and sundry threads where we posted Googlemaps' satellite images of, say, the spot on the Seine where Javert took his nosedive? And the thread where I posted the pictures from my trip to France?

Well, I took that idea and sort of... ran with it. And the result is a full-blown tour guide for pretty much all the places relevant to the novel: Montreuil-sur-Mer, Montfermeil, and all the places in Paris like the Rue Plumet and the Field of the Lark and the site of the barricade.

This has been in the works eight or nine months and I finally finished it. Very Happy
Kragey

You are so full of awesome. This is great!
lesmisloony

*faints*
Quique

That's sooo cool, Orestes! Applause
Kragey

Sooooo...who wants to go to France? You'd have to stay with me and my insane French relatives, of course.
music is my life!!!

lol thats a funky site

Smile
Orestes Fasting

Kragey wrote:
Sooooo...who wants to go to France? You'd have to stay with me and my insane French relatives, of course.


Insane in a good way or a bad way? Wink

(I wanted to go back to France this summer so badly, but it looks like I'm going to be in a show. Which kind of kills the summer travel plans, unless I want to go in the last week and a half of August.)
bigR

What a wonderful work! I particularily like the comparision between old map /new map / pictures, but I loved everything! You're the most wonderful geek on earth, Orestes! Wink

But watching your tourguide has been awesome and extremely weird as the same time... I had never tried to find the Les Mis locations in nowadays Paris before, and it is a really weird feeling to suddenly discover that I've lived just besides the Field of the Lark (rue cabanis, m�tro Glaci�re), that I've eaten at the caf� Musain (if it's any consolation I've catched a couple of worker's strikes at that particular mcdonalds), and a couple of my favourite hangouts are located in the barricade area!!
Orestes Fasting

When I was in Paris I stayed in a cheap hotel in the rue Saint-Denis, which sounds really trashy until you realize it was right in the barricade area. (Okay, it was still trashy--porn stores on either side--but the hotel was okay and it was right there.)
Quique

Cool! Porn shops or not, I'd stay there in a heartbeat. I will surely refer to your magnificent guide if I go to Paris someday. The pictures are especially lovely.
mastachen

Quique wrote:
Cool! Porn shops or not, I'd stay there in a heartbeat. I will surely refer to your magnificent guide if I go to Paris someday. The pictures are especially lovely.


I hope by "there" you mean Paris and not the porn shops... because it is kinda unclear what you meant. Smile

Edit: I read "be" there instead of "stay" there. Sorry. That's a mistake I should not be making.

Kragey wrote:
Sooooo...who wants to go to France? You'd have to stay with me and my insane French relatives, of course.


I can go. My mom has been trying to get me out of the country for the summer for a long time. She thinks I should think about going to Europe, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, or Australia for at least 2 weeks. A Les Mis expedition in France sounds better than all of the above.
Quique

mastachen wrote:
Quique wrote:
Cool! Porn shops or not, I'd stay there in a heartbeat. I will surely refer to your magnificent guide if I go to Paris someday. The pictures are especially lovely.


I hope by "there" you mean Paris and not the porn shops... because it is kinda unclear what you meant. Smile

Edit: I read "be" there instead of "stay" there. Sorry. That's a mistake I should not be making.



Hehehe! I meant the latter. XD Silly, silly Alex. Smile
bigR

Orestes Fasting wrote:
When I was in Paris I stayed in a cheap hotel in the rue Saint-Denis, which sounds really trashy until you realize it was right in the barricade area. (Okay, it was still trashy--porn stores on either side--but the hotel was okay and it was right there.)


Well, rue saint denis does seem trashy but I love the area and it is much more safe than it looks at first sight. The pics strike a lot of memories too since I�ve also lived rue du faubourg saint-denis (well, not really lived, but squatted for so long at a friend�s that I think of it as my own house, he, he)�.
And the barricade most certainly adds an extra cool factor to the area� are you sure you ended up there by pure chance, Orestes?

And I want so badly to be in Paris right now. But since I�m catching a plane to London in 42 hours and I have tickets to see the show on Saturday evening, I won�t complain! (sorry, but I was looking for an excuse to say it)
Kragey

Orestes Fasting wrote:
Kragey wrote:
Sooooo...who wants to go to France? You'd have to stay with me and my insane French relatives, of course.


Insane in a good way or a bad way?


Insane in a French way.
lesmisloony

Kragey wrote:
Orestes Fasting wrote:
Kragey wrote:
Sooooo...who wants to go to France? You'd have to stay with me and my insane French relatives, of course.


Insane in a good way or a bad way?


Insane in a French way.


Allons-nous !
Colle

It was great that you could put that tour guide, and you pictures together, Orestes Fasting. Seeing how those places in the book look like today is interesting. If I ever have the opportunity to go to France, I would love to visit some "Les Miserables" related sites. Seeing those pictures, I was thinking it would be a good idea for the "Amazing Race," the next time they go to France, that the teams should go to a Les Mis related site to get a clue(although I think they may have gone to the Paris sewer museum one year).
Electricity24601

OF, you rock! My mom and I took all of your sightings, and used them to plan out our Paris trip- we are hitting a ton of Les Mis sights.
We are leaving tonight- I'm so excited!
lesmisloony

^ *envies*
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