le metro, l´autobus, le boat et le pied
we had, i guess, about 24 hours to do paris and we gave it our best shot. we arrived via the eurostar at 1100 am, used the metro to get to our hotel freshend up and then went out
i guess the best thing abut paris is the river. it helped us to find ourselves all the time. when we got lost (an alternative title to this blog was being lost in paris) we just found ourselves again by getting to the river. being lost in paris doesn't really matter anyway becuse it it all great. definitely on the list of places to come back to.
we visited the louvre. the things that made an impact were the reliefs of darius I- the colours, the size, pristine condition, the size. we searched all over for michalangelo´s dying slave. when we had finaly given up and went looking for the mona lisa we found the slave (probably a lesson in life there). also humarabi's code. didn´t expect to find that there. it is mind blowing (for me anyway ) to see something that i spent so much time staring at photos in text books at school. well now i've really seen hamurabi's code
another good thing about visiting the louvre was that it was excellent training for our pilgrim walk. the louvre is 700metres long and by the time you've been lost in it as many times as we were you have covered a lot more than 700 metres.
the following day we took an open bus tour and saw all the iconic spots. we hung around the eiffel tower for a while and took a lot of photos then went for a river cruise.
paris does not disappoint. it was beautiful when we expected beauty. relaxing and fun when we were just walking around. i think it would definitely be fun to work on my french and try to talk to people a little bit. i thought i might have been a bit ho hum about the eiffel twer but really seeing it is stunning.
we will be back. or have i already said that?
sorrry no photos. no place to put in the card
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