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PARIS TRIP

8/7/2013

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On Thursday 27 June 2013 the alarm went off at 3am, this is the earliest start I have had in a very long time.

Leaving the house at 3.30am I made rapid progress along empty streets and an almost empty motorway and was parked up outside Manchester Airports Terminal 3 before 4.00am just as the sky was starting to brighten in the East. After checking in and eventually getting through security following a thorough search after setting off the metal detector I was soon tucking into a full English breakfast.

The Picture above is of my plane which is an Embraer ERJ-195LR operated by FlyBe. The flight time was about 75 minutes to Paris Charles de Gaulle and I enjoyed the flight. Unlike some of the larger planes I have been on in recent years where you seem to amble along the runway before slowly climbing into the sky the Embraer rocketed along the tarmac and was soon heading skyward at quite an acute angle before turning South for Paris.
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Endless cloud cover over England - Not really unusual but the clouds were pretty much all the way to Paris.
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More interesting clouds over France
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Estonian Air Canadair CL-600-2D24 Regional Jet parked next to us at Charles de Gaulle's wet and windy Termimal 2E. 
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Heading into Paris - Traffic was not good following a series of accidents, the rain had stopped though. The large building on the left is the Stadt de France where I went watching Croatia v France in the 1998 World Cup Semi-Final.
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Nearing my destination in Paris's la Defense business district.
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One of more than 70 steel and glass buildings in the business district photographed through the glass roof of the taxi.
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Another tall building under construction.
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Despite the heavy traffic I made the meeting on time at 10am. I took the above photograph before heading inside. 
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Heading home on the1550.
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View of a town in France.
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Approaching the channel just West of Calais at 36000 feet.  Calais was just visible at the end of the arrow head of clouds on the left where they meet the sea. Soon after this the clouds were back and it was only after we were on final approach a mile or so from Manchester Airport that I saw the ground again.

Reached my front door just after 7pm.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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