Self Shot: Saint-Martin River

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Well it was a fun, yet sad day in Paris as Anna and I enjoyed our last day here. We enjoyed a fun morning at an Antique Market, and then made our way to Pere Lachaise Cemetery (where a few popular people have been buried). After some time there we walked for what seemed like forever and ended up at Parc des Buttes Chaumont where I played on some free wifi courteous of the Paris government. We then walked by Saint-Martin River (which I am sure is related to me in some way) and had a great meal downtown.

Tomorrow we catch a 2:30pm flight to Glasgow where we pick up Ella and begin a new adventure. More to come as I have to pick up a car and drive on the wrong side of the road…AH!

Self Shot: Before going up the Eiffel Tower

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Well today was awesome.

After sleeping until noon (i know we are in Paris and we are sleeping in) we got up and Anna went fabric shopping, while I read and had a “cafe long” at a coffee shop near the Sacre Coeur.

We then went into the heart of the city and Anna went to Kookai and did a little shopping. After that we tried to rent some roller blades so we could participate in the rollerblade run in Paris on Friday nights, but we were unable to track any rentals, so instead we traveled over to the Eiffel Tower and took on the amazing view that was breath taking on such a clear and warm night.

We then settled in for dinner with the locals (beginning at 10:30pm) and hung out with a number of Parisians until 2am.

Such a fun day. Only one more full day until we fly back up to Glasgow.

Hall of Mirrors

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Today we ventured to Versailles to take in the Chateau and its grounds. It took us about an hour to venture out here, and it was worth the trip. The place was huge and quite extravagant. For those of you wondering, this is the place where the French revolution began as the poor of Versailles finally had enough of the Royalty building their kingdom on their backs. It is the home of Louis the 14th and Marie-Antoinette who had her head cut off by the revolutionaries at the beginning of the revolt.

Musee National du Moyen Age

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Anna and I decided to try a couple museums today. This picture is of us before we entered the Medieval Museum, which wasn’t bad, but we really enjoyed the Louvre, which we went to after this. We stayed there for over 6 hours!

We bought the headsets and traveled throughout the museum seeing a lot of French art, and Italian (including the Mona Lisa), and even a few sculptures from 100+ BC, including Venus de Milo.

It was a great day!

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Anna and I ventured out to the museum d’orsay today, which for me i enjoyed more than the modern art museum. My favourite piece was the Church at Auvers by Van Gogh. It is quite the interesting story, as the painting depicts a church with no entrances, and a woman running around it, with a storm coming and the church looking like it is trembling.

A simple way of describing the story is that Van Gogh had many former ministers in his life (his dad, grandfather, and so forth) and when he tried to enter the ministry the church turned him away for being a little different (specifically in his artwork), so you can see why this church has no doors.

Here is link with me and the painting.

Self Shot Modern Art Museum

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Today Anna and I went to the museum of modern art (Place Georges Pompidou).

I have to say, my favourite artist is Salvador Dali (even though I don’t really understand all his work). Anna really liked a piece by Yves Klein.