Last Night’s Lunar Eclipse
I didn’t see the eclipse here in London, but my son saw it in Cairo, where incidentally the BBC showed it on the television this morning. It looked fairly spectacular and extremely beautiful.
Two Obelisks, Paris
As I said I didn’t have too much time, but I did go to the Place to the Concorde and then walk back to Opera for lunch.
The obelisk is called the Luxor Obelisk and is one of three in London, New York and Paris, although it comes from a different place to the other two, which are a pair. I must have seen the pair to the French one in Luxor.
The Place de la Concorde was where the guillotine was setup in the French Revolution. The most notable person in my view, who was executed there was the founder of modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier.
The Anonymous Widower 