Les Chroniques de Paris

Monday, March 26, 2012

Day 75

The weather just keeps getting nicer here. Wish I had brought more summer clothes. Decided to walk around Paris. It really doesn't get old. Sundays, everything pretty much shuts down (no stores or super markets are open. Bakeries and restaurants are) so everyone is pretty much outdoor for a stroll or a picnic in their favorite spot.

Random art in a window of Le Monde Headquarters

Across the street

That's not bad if you think about it. 8d/7n all inclusive trip to a 5* hotel in DR for 990€

Cemetery at Montparnasse

Yeah, cemetery's are kinda nice and peaceful. You'll be surprised how many come and just sit like it's a park.

Day 72

Parc des Buttes Chaumont: A park where you can sit on the grass! And we did just that, while drink 0.75€ wine, classy. (Tasted like any other red wine to me) Then we were off to see the Hunger Games at Bercy village. It was such a good movie!

Day 67

Ok, so some people might not think to visit a cemetery while in a different country, but hey I'm here for four months and there are famous people buried here at Pere Lachaise cemetery.

It's a city for the dead

In Memory of the France-Brazil flight that crashed a couple of years ago

Oscar Wilde's tomb, covered in glass because the tradition is to kiss the tomb and was probably damaging it

Writer: Oscar Wilde

Singer: Edith Piaf's tomb

Actor/Writer: Moliere

Writer: La Fontaine

Singer: Jim Morrison (apparently the tradition here was to have sex or do drugs on his grave)

Monument to the dead

Just happened to come across a march for aid in Syria

Day 66

The weather is getting nicer here in Paris so the days must be spent outdoors discovering more and more of beautiful little Paris! Decides to go to the Jardin des Tuileries, once a royal garden now open to all (after the French Revolution) but apparently you can't sit on the grass. What kind of crap is that? Anyway, the park is nice and has a view of the Eiffel Tower, the obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the Arc of Triumph. Pretty nice spot indeed. But to get a seat you have to get there earlier than I do.

Place de la Concorde

Fountain at the Place

Made my way from the 1st district all the way to the 18th by walking. The 18th, the area called Montmartre is the cute, "old Paris" part of the city. Chilled in front of the steps of Sacre Coeur where one gets an amazing view of the city. Apparently everyone else has the same idea of going here and hanging out.

Street performer

This guy sang songs in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish

After being harassed by a creeper and giving out fake emails (sorry if anyone gets emails from him), my friend and I had to sadly leave Sacre Coeur. We hit up the river Seine next and sat by the river til it grew dark. We then headed to the Eiffel tower cuz we kinda missed her, and she had been calling out to us with her searchlight :)