Even rain is more awesome in Paris
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mousmeIntermittent rain since yesterday. I got soaked running back to the apartment for my umbrella, but getting soaked in Paris is infinitely preferable to getting soaked at home, I have discovered.
I had forgotten that in Paris almost everything is closed on Mondays (bookstores, museums, what have you). Slept in. Made coffee. Burnt a croissant in the microwave: we don't have an oven in this apartment. Made another croissant. Consumed said croissant, and a yummy lemon-flavoured yoghurt. Finished the book I was reading.
So much to write about yesterday's trip, not enough patience to deal with the teeny-tiny keyboard. Don't know how people with Blackberries put up with them. We're going out to dinner in about two hours, to a Vietnamese place that's apparently really good.
We have a neat little apartment in the 7e Arrondissement. Literally across the Seine from l'Arc de Triomphe, les Champs Élysées, and le Palais des Tuileries. It has taken some getting used to: the kitchen is lacking in a number of things I normally find quite basic (the oven springs to mind, as does a proper bread knife), and it would give a rocket scientist pause to try to figure out the myriad different locking systems on the three sets of doors separating the apartment from the outside world. Five locks, two buzzers and a numerical code. And I thought the RCMP were paranoid...
The plan for tomorrow is to visit the Jardin des Tuileries, and pick an exhibit at the Louvre (don't know which one yet, and it breaks my heart that I will never in my life be able to visit the whole thing). I have never seen le Jardin de l'Infante, so I shall try for a "detour" there as well. Then I am going to walk along the Seine until I hit the Pont Mirabeau, and possibly go up the Tour Eiffel, which I haven't done since I was twelve and have an urge to do again.
Wednesday I am going to spend the day in the Jardins du Luxembourg. I am going to find the ducks at the Fontaine de Medicis, buy a sandwich and a limonade, and have a luxurious time.
No plans yet for Thursday and Friday. It's not so much that I can't think of anything to do, as it is an overabundance of things to do and not enough time in which to do them all. So I am trying to pick only one or two things per day, with plenty of time left for walking and loafing and looking at the bouquinistes' stalls along the Seine.
I am ridiculously happy. I just wish I had more than four days in the city. Saturday morning will be devoted to packing and heading for the airport. My "whole week" here is suddenly seeming awfully short. *sigh*
I had forgotten that in Paris almost everything is closed on Mondays (bookstores, museums, what have you). Slept in. Made coffee. Burnt a croissant in the microwave: we don't have an oven in this apartment. Made another croissant. Consumed said croissant, and a yummy lemon-flavoured yoghurt. Finished the book I was reading.
So much to write about yesterday's trip, not enough patience to deal with the teeny-tiny keyboard. Don't know how people with Blackberries put up with them. We're going out to dinner in about two hours, to a Vietnamese place that's apparently really good.
We have a neat little apartment in the 7e Arrondissement. Literally across the Seine from l'Arc de Triomphe, les Champs Élysées, and le Palais des Tuileries. It has taken some getting used to: the kitchen is lacking in a number of things I normally find quite basic (the oven springs to mind, as does a proper bread knife), and it would give a rocket scientist pause to try to figure out the myriad different locking systems on the three sets of doors separating the apartment from the outside world. Five locks, two buzzers and a numerical code. And I thought the RCMP were paranoid...
The plan for tomorrow is to visit the Jardin des Tuileries, and pick an exhibit at the Louvre (don't know which one yet, and it breaks my heart that I will never in my life be able to visit the whole thing). I have never seen le Jardin de l'Infante, so I shall try for a "detour" there as well. Then I am going to walk along the Seine until I hit the Pont Mirabeau, and possibly go up the Tour Eiffel, which I haven't done since I was twelve and have an urge to do again.
Wednesday I am going to spend the day in the Jardins du Luxembourg. I am going to find the ducks at the Fontaine de Medicis, buy a sandwich and a limonade, and have a luxurious time.
No plans yet for Thursday and Friday. It's not so much that I can't think of anything to do, as it is an overabundance of things to do and not enough time in which to do them all. So I am trying to pick only one or two things per day, with plenty of time left for walking and loafing and looking at the bouquinistes' stalls along the Seine.
I am ridiculously happy. I just wish I had more than four days in the city. Saturday morning will be devoted to packing and heading for the airport. My "whole week" here is suddenly seeming awfully short. *sigh*
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Date: 2008-06-02 05:21 pm (UTC)I am so envious!!
If you have a chance at all, go to the Musee D'Orsay for the Impressionists. There is no print in any student apartment that can possibly do justice to the originals. They quite literally glow. (I'm not knocking the Louvre, but it is quite overwhelming, and my lasting impression of it is its exhausting immensity, rather than what it actually contains in the way of masterpieces.)
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Date: 2008-06-02 08:32 pm (UTC)I love Paris! And what a wonderful time to be there, too! I absolutely LOVE Asian food in Paris. Some of the best Chinese and Japanese I've ever had. Have a wonderful time!!
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Date: 2008-06-03 03:59 pm (UTC)However when we went back the *following* day we took the opinion that there was no way of choosing one thing above another in terms of what we wanted to look at during our time there.
Therefore we just went in without a guidebook and simply ambled from room to room, I think we saw so much more that way than trying to pick something.
Paree!
Date: 2008-06-03 07:30 pm (UTC)Awww, I'm glad you're having such a good time.
You certainly have worked hard since I've met you.
Must be great to take a break. :)