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Why Do They Call Jim Morrison The Lizard King?

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Jim Morrison. Photo by Electra Records (1968). PD. Wikimedia Commons.

If the title of this blog caught your eye, well then, you must be from my generation. If you know the answer to the question, good for you. Frankly, I didn’t know the answer when I decided to write my fifth book called Where Did They Bury Jim Morrison, The Lizard King? —A Walking Tour of Paris Cemeteries. So for those of you who don’t know the answer, here is a multiple-choice test.

Why is Jim Morrison called the Lizard King?

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The Uniqueness of Paris

Stew Ross (author) sitting on Sanson grave at Montmartre Cemetery. (Photo by Dan Owen)
Stew Ross (author) sitting on Sanson grave at Montmartre Cemetery. (Photo by Dan Owen)

Always Enough To Do

How many times have you visited a city you’ve always wanted to see, and allotted, a certain amount of days only to find out once you get there that you can see everything in half the time?

Yet there are other cities that it doesn’t matter how many times you return there is always enough things to do, to learn, and experience.

That is the uniqueness of Paris.

There aren’t that many cities in the world that you return to for the twelfth time and you’re still experiencing new things. There’s London, Rome, Tokyo, and New York City to mention a few.

I would never discourage first timers to Paris to disregard the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Tuileries Gardens, or a boat ride on the Seine. Any other city and they are called, “Tourist Traps” – not in Paris.

More Than the Eiffel Tower

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