Coucou tout le monde!
I just returned home from spending the weekend in Paris. I went and visited some UVA pals who are studying at Science Po Paris (thats a university, apparently the most competitive in France!) and tried to hit all the typical Paris tourist destinations. I like to call it power-tourism.
Day 1:
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| i love this translation. ha. |
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| some random, ornate gold statues along the Seine river |
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| ohhh Camps Elysees....ohh champs elysees...(thats the beggining of a slightly annoying, classic french song :) |
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| they were having some type of memorial as we were leaving the monument. The bugler was playing Taps, so I think it was in honor of the death of someone important (which i recognized because i had to play it for the civil war encampment in 5th grade, hahhaa!) Pretty cool. Except that they were blocking the exit and we wanted to leave because it was really cold. |
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| the Eiffel Tower! |
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from below.
Then after our first night of sightseeing, we visited dear Courtney Seldon in her cute little tiny-tiny Paris appartement! :) We chatted so long the metros were closed. Luckily, Theo, one of french guys whose apartment we were staying at (a highschool friend of my host-sister in Lyon) was with us, and knew where we were. So we rented city bikes (Lyon and Paris both have a city bike program, there are bikes at designated locations throught the city and you just swipe a card and take one from one spot and return it at another, for free! its amazing) and took a 2am bike tour of Paris! Past Notre Dame, the Centre Pompedieu, the latin quarter....all over. It was incredible! and absolutely freezing. But as our french friend said "But it is not everyday that you are in Paris so maybe you can just do it."
Phew! I believe thats a long enough post for now. More to come! |
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