I’m grateful that Loic and Geraldine invited me to keynote LeWeb ’09 in Paris last week. It was my first time in Paris, my first time in France – and I’ll undoubtedly make my way back there at some point in the future. The food was just too good to forget!

I didn’t take too many photos or videos while I was there – probably because I was too jet lagged to see straight (and I really didn’t have much time to sightsee). I’m not one to snap photos of faces, though. Despite being tied up inside a solid tech event, I managed to sneak out to the Tower Eiffel on my final night there.

And the view from the top?

Yes, “everybody” goes to the Eiffel Tower when they’re in Paris – but did you ever get to see the inside of City Hall? Keep in mind, they only open it up to the public one day per year – which means that most locals never get to see what some of us got to see. Yep! I partied with the current mayor of Paris!