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Le Grande Mosqu\u00e9e de Paris. \u00a92011 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

Paris-<\/strong> Took a long, brisk walk around the 5th arrondissement<\/a> tonight after another red eye transatlantic trip leaving me in a daze. After a falafel and a Delirium Tremens, I got lost on my way back to Hotel le Demeure <\/a>and stumbled upon the Moroccan-Algerian styled Grande Mosqu\u00e9e de Paris<\/a> on a quiet backstreet at midnight which made for an ill-focused Blackberry snapshot. Upon a brief Google, the mosque is much older than I would have thought and rather than being a post-war structure, it is in fact a post-Great War<\/em> construction dating back to the roaring twenties. Sometimes it’s good to lose one’s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris- Took a long, brisk walk around the 5th arrondissement tonight after another red eye transatlantic trip leaving me in a daze. After a falafel and a Delirium Tremens, I got lost on my way back to Hotel le Demeure…<\/p>\n

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