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  • Paris 2017 – Day 2

    Paris 2017 – Day 2

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    Versailles Bike Tour Highly recommended! We met at the tour office in Paris and took the train together to Versailles. We picked up bikes and spent an hour at a market to eat crepes and buy picnic supplies for later. Our guide was fun and informative and it was a nice, relaxing day, despite getting…

  • Paris 2017 – Day 1

    Paris 2017 – Day 1

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    We landed at Charles de Gaulle airport at 11am. It took about 30 minutes to get through passport control and to the RER train station connected to the airport. €10 to take the B line into Paris, which includes any connections you need to make via métro. Eiffel Tower I waited too long to buy…

  • Paris 2017

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    Justin Hill
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    Coming soon to hillfamily.net — way too many pictures of Paris and Versailles! In the meantime, please enjoy this short video:

  • French music que j’aime

    French music que j’aime

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    Justin Hill
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    I’ve told you about my music problem, right? I grew up in small-town Idaho where the only radio stations were hard rock, Top 40, pop country, and painfully easy listening. But we had a Rainbow Records store. In the age of Spotify and YouTube it feels so foreign now that I would wait for the weekly…

  • A mini-guide to Paris

    A mini-guide to Paris

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    Three of the four Hill brothers served missions in France (two in the Paris Mission [1992-94 and 1999-2001] and one in the Geneva Mission [2004-06] which includes parts of France). We try to get back when we can, even if it’s just during a layover from somewhere else. Since we occasionally get requests for info on…