Tag: museum
Versailles
Today we took the short train ride out to Versailles. Sheila and I were both a little disappointed at first because we had imagine big open green gardens that you typically see in pictures. Instead what we were greeted with was suburban Paris with many buildings and traffic. We made our way to the actual [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2009 under travel.
Tags: day trip, france, garden, museum, versailles
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The Louvre and more food
Today we we visited one of the most famous art museums in the world, the Louvre. The Louvre is MASSIVE, it contains over 35,000 pieces of artwork, we would try and hit just a few. We started early in the day and saw the most famous piece first just to get it out of the [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2009 under travel.
Tags: artwork, food, france, museum, paris
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Museums, Gardens and Happy Thanksgiving
We had planned much for our second day in Paris, but actually ended up doing more than planned. We started out by walking through the Jardin des Tuleries, the giant gardens between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde and not far from our hotel. On the other side of the Jardin was the Musee [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2009 under travel.
Tags: food, france, french, museum, paris, sweets, travel
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