Hey, just got back to Amsterdam from Paris this afternoon. Beautiful city but very big and whole lota people. Will post more details tommrow .
So I stayed with Geoff Cant ( Lucy’s brother) which was super easy to find in Montmartre, only one metro line from the train station where I got in and a 5 min walk. I was very lucky to have some one to stay with as i imagine the hostel prices would have been pretty expensy. My first day I checked out the pompido centre, a very cool mondern building that has several galleries of modern art picasso mondrian and an amazing kadinsky exhibition (one of the tutors at the original bauhaus.)I used the metro to get around it seemed to only take about 5-10 mins to go anywhere and only 1.60 euro , although some of the stations where I had to conect to another line were crazy busy with so many metro lines.
Thursday i checked out Montmartre, the sacre cour bassilica on the hill behind Geoffs and the surrounding area, again loads of tourists. Friday i was a very sucessful tourist and did the arc de triumph , eiffel tower, hotel invaldies and part of the louve Museum. The arc was pretty nuts because it is a giant roundabout with about 8 or 9 roads coming off it! the drivers in paris are crazy too , people on the roundabout have to give way to the people coming onto it so , it looked like quite a mess. The Eiffel tower was very cool, i took the stairs ques were much quicker than the lifts. Spectacular views in all directions and super sunny day.
April 30, 2009 at 5:55 am |
Wow you did heaps in a week!
Surprised you were allowed to pix the Mona Lisa – did you inspect the security fittings?
All good here but too many feijoas to deal with.
I am feeding my and Ken’s extras to the students at school.
Au Revoir
Rachelle
April 30, 2009 at 9:54 am |
Awesome Sach! very much wishing I’d had a little more time up my sleve for Paris, looks like you got stunning weather.
May 1, 2009 at 3:41 pm |
Yes I was also surprised you could take photos in the museums and galleries too, no flash was allowed tho.