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| Sunday, June 25: Ah, Paris. City of
lights. Kind of like Durham, but a couple of thousand years older,
twenty times bigger, and with a few more museums. And a bunch of
people that speak French.
We arrived Sunday morning back at Chas de Gaulle, and subwayed to our
hotel in Montmartre. Montmartre would be like Paris' Greenwich Village
if most of Paris wasn't already like Greenwich Village. Anyway,
it's where lots of artists hang out.
After settling in, we visited the Georges Pompidou modern art museum, a
Picasso museum, and the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
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The Pompidou |
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| On Monday we took a self-guided walking tour of Montmartre,
and visited a Salvador Dali museum.
Later in the day, we made a turbo tour of the Louvre (a little museum
easily seen in an afternoon), and then strolled along the Champs-Elysees
that night.
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Sacre-Couer on Montmarte |
Hard at work in Montmartre |
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| Now THAT'S a traffic jam (view from atop the Arc de
Triomph) |
Just a pretty little church on Montmartre |
Arc de Triomph |
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| The Louvre, where we saw... |
Monets... |
and Picassos. |
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| Tuesday. The big day.
We returned to the Isle de France in the center of the city (where
Notre Dame is) and went through a magnificent Cathedral called St. Chapelle
and a huge government building called the Concierge. From the island
we took a boat up and down the Seine past the Eiffel Tower , the Louvre,
and Notre Dame. From there we walked south through the beautiful
Luxembourg Gardens, and then east to the Pantheon, a massive royal
mausoleum.
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| St. Chapelle |
2 Views of Luxembourg Gardens |
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At last, the evening of truth arrived. We returned
to Montmartre for the absolute best meal we had during the whole
trip. Have we mentioned the French can cook? Ooh la la!
After almost losing Scott to an overly tempting creme brulee, we headed
back south to the Eiffel Tower (y'all have heard this part, haven't ya?). |
| Views of the Tower |
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| There, amidst the city lights, Scott popped the question,
and Julia said....
yes! Whew!
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It's a long way to the top! |
Us, moments after he popped the question. |
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| Just as a reality check, because we stayed
atop the tower so long, we missed the last train home, then stood on the
wrong side of the road and missed the bus, so we had to wait about an hour
and a half for the next bus in the freezing cold. Ah, to be numb and
in love! |
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| St. Madeline church in the high class part of town |
Between the Louvre and Champs-Elysees |
La Defense |
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| On Wednesday, we tooled around in the high
class part of town (trying to find Scott silk stalkings- don't ask),
walked down the Champs-Elysees in the daylight, and finally rode out to La
Defense, a very modern part of town built partially for the department of
defense (French, not US). |
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| We where particularly fond of the statues on the
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Marie Antoinette's little "play
village". Wasn't she just the dearest thing? |
More of Versailles |
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| On Thursday we whipped through the Musee
d'Orsay, rented a car, and headed to Versailles. We loved the
magnificent architecture of Versaille, particularly some of the
statues. After touring the palace proper, we took a little tram
around the grounds, where we saw the little village Marie Antoinette had
constructed to remind her of her home back in Austria. What ever
happened to that sweet girl? |
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