That's a pretty shot, kind of melancholy, viewed through the autumn trees like that. I haven't been to Europe in over ten years, and my younger kids never have.

just like April, but without the sun or the tourists
so it's completely different?
Where do you find apartments?

November is my favorite month to visit.

Nice shot. I love the Eiffel Tower...such elegant ironwork.

As beloved as it is by Parisians today, it's hard to believe how many of them hated it when it was being built. I love this petition that was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the 1889 Exposition Universelle:

"We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection…of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower … To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years … we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal"

IP, I was there in November once, for four days over Thanksgiving (got an amazing $199 fare from Seattle on Northwest, roundtrip.) We were fortunate to have gorgeous weather for that time of year and and we loved it. I went a few years later, also in the off-season, but this time in February. It was cold and rainy and, while I certainly didn't hate it (it was, after all, Paris) it was my least favorite time there.

Nice photo, and well done. I would be framing that one up on a wall somewhere for sure if it were mine.

JD, I have also been lucky twice and experienced a warm November while visiting on the cheap!