Things I saw/did during my last journey to Paris (oct, 27 till oct, 31)
Submitted by 1922 on Fri, 11/11/2005 - 03:32
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- a walk over the 'allée des cygnes', right in the middle of the Seine
- the house of the French writer Honoré de Balzac
- a museum about Brazilian romanticism
- the one-man-show 'Merci' by Daniel Pennac
- a museum about French romanticism
- Montmartre
- an exposition of some sculptures by Salvador Dalí
- the cemetery of Montparnasse
- two plays by Eugène Ionesco: 'La leçon' and 'La cantatrice chauve'
- an exposition of the major works by Pablo Picasso (except, of course, 'Guernica')
- the exposition about the Arabian culture and sciences
- a museum about Middle Age
- the 'jardin du Luxembourg'
- the Champs-Elysées
- the 'Arc de Triomphe'
- the exposition Klimt-Kokoschka
- the Panthéon (with, for instance, the graves of Emile Zola or Victor Hugo)
- the play 'Le Cid' by Pierre Corneille
- the Eiffel Tower
- Sacré Coeur
- the Sorbonne (university of Paris)
- Notre-Dame
- the book shop 'Shakespeare and Company' (where I bought two books)
- the Ritz (got into the entrance hall, and than I was thrown out)
- and less pleasent things:
- robbery
- poverty
- suicide
- CRS men (because of the riots in suburbs)
Author Comments:
It was not my first stay in Paris, but the most interesting one.
Wow, that's a busy four days. I saw some sights, but most memorably spent a lot of time sitting in cafes smoking and drinking either coffee or wine. And eating.
Yeah, it was pretty busy. I also spent some time (and a lot of money) in cafes, but not that much. What I found especially interesting there were the people and their behaviour.
Oh, what I nearly forgot, I even managed to get into the Ritz, or rather into the entrance hall till they threw me out...
Well, if you're going to get thrown out of somewhere, at least you're classy enough to get thrown out of the Ritz. :P