Nutella Crepes to the diet
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Sorry friends, it’s going to take me a bit longer to upload pictures. I have nearly 1700 to sort through so the computer has been acting very slow.
So like I said, Paris was spectacular! I guess I expected the Parisians to be rude like you have always heard about and the city to be way to high maintenance, but the people were actually friendly and the city has so much to offer. Defiantly a place I would consider living for a short time. My first afternoon I hit up the famous Louvre. Of course the museum is overwhelmingly huge and if you are really into art you could spend an entire day there. But I did some research beforehand and went to the sections with pieces I knew I wanted to see. I focused on Da Vinci paintings, Aphrodite-Goddess of Love, Winged Victory of Samothrace-woman with wings poised on a prow of a ship once stood on a hilltop to commemorate a great naval victory, the famous Mona Lisa which is surprisingly a small painting that sits behind glass in a huge room, works by Michelangelo, and I even hit up the Egyptian section. Needless to say, this is a must see while in Paris. [read on]