Thursday 2nd August (Paris)
Boy did it rain last night. My room is in the eaves of the hotel,
so I was getting the rain drumming on my roof all night. I was just
about to go out this morning wearing my emergency plastic mac, but I
spotted a bit of blue sky, so it went back into my room.
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| The Louvre |
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| The Famous Pyramid |
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| The pyramid at night |
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| The Venus de Milo |
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| Victory of Samothrace |
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| The Mona Lisa |
Visited the Louvre this morning. Got to say it's not what I
expected. To start there is a huge shopping mall as part of the
complex. I also didn't know that when they were doing excavations a
few years back, they found the walls of the citadel that was
originally on the site. These have now been rebuilt which gives the
whole complex the feel of a cross between Bluewater, the Tower of
London, the British museum and the Tate.
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| View from the First floor |
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| The Tower From the River |
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| The Tower at Night |
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| Notre Dame from the River |
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| Notre Dame |
One surprise is that they actually encourage photography, unlike
London where if you tried to use a camera the attendants would be
drawing lots to see who could jump on you from the greatest height!
From there I took a boat to the Eifel Tower for lunch on the
first floor. (No time to go higher as the queues were horrendous.)
Back to the boat again for a trip to Notre Dame and a look it its
Gothic architecture. Interesting to compare this with the French
influence in TRNC.
By the time I'd finished that lot I was shattered, and could have
done without my bus tour held over from yesterday. But hey! I'm
Scottish and I'd already paid for it! The tour round Paris was well
worth the effort, however, and made me realise just how much there
is to see in this city.
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