Paris - Part 2

DAY 2: Monmarte & Sacre Cur, the Moulin Rouge, the Lapin Agile, several cafes, more wandering, a parfumerie, the Louvre just as it was closing and a wonderful dinner at a little pizza place just a few doors down from our hotel. Truth be told, we have come to call Monmarte our Waterloo. We may or may not have gotten into a wee bit of a disagreement and I may or may not have cried on the streets of Paris. Everyone should do it once, right? But it led to some really good conversations, so all was not lost.






I've decided Hal Holbrook would play this guy in the movie about his life. Either that or it actually IS Hal Holbrook.


Actual Moulin Rouge

The Louvre


DAY 3: Freeeeeeeeeeezing. Notre Dame, a stop for a warming cup of cafe in a cafe, wandering over near the Latin Quarter, an attempt to buy Geoff some gloves, but they broke after about 15 minutes, more photography, AMAZING french onion soup to warm me for lunch, a brief stroll through Luxembourg Gardens, a brief tour through The Musee d'Orsay (where we both fell for the same Degas painting), a frigid wait in the cold for a taxi, a nap at the hotel, a dinner at the corner bistro after being turned away from a reccommended restaurant, a late night crepe and a walk down the rue de Clare.



I was really taken with the statue of Jesus at the altar inside Notre Dame. I took about 47 pictures of him. You couldn't really see him directly from the front but I thought it was beautiful and there was something about it that really spoke to me. I know it's weird to talk him up and then show you a shot from behind the altar, but, again, angles of him were limited.


Reeeeaaallly ready for my soup now, please.


Luxembourg Garden




Latin Quarter - or thereabouts.


How amazingly Parisien is she?



Musee d'Orsay



All in all, Paris was pretty gorgeous. Even with the cold and the grey. We would love to go back.

Viva La France!

You were promised Paris travel videos. And here they are. Yes, I am self aware enough to know how atrocious my French accent is. Extra points for anyone who can identify how many accents I go through during the course of these videos while attempting to have a French one.





I count at least Italian, German, Spanish and Czechoslovakian. And virtually nothing that sounds remotely French. Any others?

Paris - Part 1

OK, there is FAR too much to say about Paris. I've been trying to write it all in one whole post for almost 2 weeks and finally had to break it into multiple posts. Even though, in my initial report I complained about the cold I wasn't prepared for, as well as how gray it was, as I look back on my pictures, I have to admit, Paris is pretty photogenic. I should really so about 6-10 dfferent series of photographs to really do it justice: Paris at Night, Black and White Paris, the People of Paris, Le Tour Eiffel, The Cafes of Paris, etc etc etc.

Day 1: Our favorite day. The Eiffel tower in the morning, wandering the 6th arrondismont in the afternoon, the Champs-Elyesee and the Arc de Triomphe in the evening and Geoff's 40th Birthday Dinner at the oldest restaurant in Paris. Kinda hard to beat a day like that.


A repelling class was there that day. Pretty cool place to take lessons.


Standard



Loved this little guy - marvelling at Just How Tall It Is


Lovers initials at the middle level of the tower


Me attempting to look impossibly Parisian at our first meal in Paris and mostly succeeding in just looking like a New Yorker.


Wandering around...










Standard couple making out shot


Stairs up to the top of the Arc De Triomphe


Arc de Triomphe


The view from the top...


More to come. And yes, there are videos from Paris as well. Brace yourselves.