Classy Paris Neighborhood Ignores Arrival of World MCAD Media
Autodesk has gathered members of the CAD media from throughout the known world, assembling them in Paris for the Autodesk Manufacturing Media Summit, which starts today.
Our home for these three days is the Grand Hotel Intercontinental, next door to the Paris Opera house. Classy joint for a bunch of lowlife CAD media hacks (present company included).
Our neighboorhood for the Summit. The hotel is the triangular building lower left; the opera house has the green dome. (Image courtesy Google Earth).
I am still on US Left Coast time, so I was wide awake at 4am. At 7am I went on the streets of Paris, smelling remarkably fresh after a good rain last night. (I've been here before, I know it won't last.) I am fond of strong protein at breakfast, but the French do not agree. So I had a bready thing with raisins in it, and of course that wonderful European coffee that Americans can only dream about. I am a tea person at home, but here the coffee is worth drinking.
I cashed in miles to bring two of my teens with me; any excuse to fill a free hotel room. They have been asleep for 15 of the last 20 hours. I wonder if they will get to see much of Paris at this rate.
Josh and Brianna (Dad in middle) were awake long enough to pose in front of the fresh-cut flowers in the Hotel Grand Intercontinental. Neither are allowed to date or even speak to members of the opposite sex, so just move long, nothing here to see.
More to come, often, from both Rach and I.
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