On our last day in Paris, the weather was just as wonderful as the first day, and of course we had a few more places to conquer.
Musee Lourve - of course we went here, as if I will miss this for the world. CS was more excited about the queue at the Apple store for the iPad 2, lol... The sale of iPad2 only started at 5pm and will only be released then so there were no display sets for him to play with. With our wonderful museum pass, we zoomed past all the queues, woo hoo! The Lourve is seriously big, you can spend a whole day there, heck probably a week and still not see everything. As we were on limited time, we skipped through most of the exhibits and did the major ones, like Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Coronation of Napoleon etc. We used the audio guide which was quite good, though on hindsight, we should have joined one of the guided tours. I must say that Mona Lisa is NOT that small at the end of the day, though the crowd to see her was obviously quite crazy. Still worth a look no matter what people say.
IM Pei's Glass Pyramid
It's really not as small as it looks!
Amazing! Amazing how many people there are....
Welcoming us to Egypt!
Tourists just snapping away..
Shakespeare and Co - oh how can I come all the way to Paris and not come here! Ever since I watched Before Sunset, I decided I have to go to the bookshop if I ever made my way to Paris and it was every bit as charming as I thought it would be. It's the kind of bookshop I would love to own/ work in if I ever have the chance. The whole place just has books, books and books stacked all over and you can probably spend the whole day on the second floor if you wanted to. People probably come here cos of Ernest Hemmingway, I'm shallower than that, I came here to feel Ethan Hawke/ Julie Delphy, haha.
The famous storefront!
Books galore!
Sainte Chapelle - this was a nightmare to get into, there was a long queue and it seemed like there was no proper queuing system. There were a few people who jumped queue and we waited quite a while to get in, this was actually the first place we had to queue to enter even though we bought the museum pass. The church itself is quite small though the stained glass is really quite spectacular, BUT there was not much sun by the time we got in so they didn't look as amazing as they could have been. In any case I thought it was weird that the Justice Department is just next door as members of the public can just wander so near it. I just thought it wasn't very secure for them even though there were security checks.
The famous stained glass windows
Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris - there was some kind of concert going on just outside the cathedral so there were lots of people around. As we got there too late, we didn't manage to climb up the cathedral to stare at the gargoyles. We just walked around the church and that was it. No sightings of Quasimodo nor of Esmeralda.
No bells ringing but there was lovely blue sky
Cruise by La Seine - we did this in the evening when the museums were closed. We didn't get to see mini Statue of Liberty though I took the one that Y mentioned went there, oh well... It was totally freezing though and we did get very good views of the Eiffel Tower. We were aiming to do a Ethan Hawke/ Julie Delphy and stand at the back and talk about life but it got way too cold. Will be interesting to do this again when we are back in Paris for Roland Garros, J mentioned that the French government brings in sand and put it along the Seine river, wonder if we will manage to see that, lol...
Tour Eiffel as the French says it
The famous Arc de Triomphe
So that was our whirlwind Paris trip. Next tasting the high life in Reims!
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