Our Sunday in Paris...
Yesterday, we left our apartment at 11 AM and didn't return until about 10 PM. We took the Metro to Notre-Dame and did not get on another means of public transportation until we were heading home. If you know Paris at all, that was an extensive amount of walking and we loved every kilometer of it!
We began the day at a wonderful bird and flower market. The sounds and sights there were truly Parisian! We then visited an admirable amount of the top historical locations. From touring Marie Antoinette's cell at La Conciergerie to admiring the stain glass at Sainte-Chapelle, we did as much as our weary feet would carry us.
We paused to attend mass at Cathédrale Notre-Dame (1160). For being non-Catholics, we have been to some pretty spectacular church services in some very unforgettable locations. This certainly was one of them.
Archeological crypts, the amazing neighborhood English bookstore, Shakespeare & Co, concerts in Luxembourg Garden on a fall-like day- we absorbed everything Paris, including the rain.
The Panthéon demanded an explore. One of the most important architectural achievements of its time and the first great neoclassical monument (final resting place of Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo and Louis Braille). It is also where, in 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment by constructing a 67 meter pendulum beneath the central dome. Both Kegan and Steve thought this worth pondering.
We strolled down quaint rue, intimate neighborhoods and through numerous parks to our final destination- the Champs de Mars for a 'picnic' dinner. It was one of those days that, at the end of it, you feel like you accomplished something!
We began the day at a wonderful bird and flower market. The sounds and sights there were truly Parisian! We then visited an admirable amount of the top historical locations. From touring Marie Antoinette's cell at La Conciergerie to admiring the stain glass at Sainte-Chapelle, we did as much as our weary feet would carry us.
We paused to attend mass at Cathédrale Notre-Dame (1160). For being non-Catholics, we have been to some pretty spectacular church services in some very unforgettable locations. This certainly was one of them.
Archeological crypts, the amazing neighborhood English bookstore, Shakespeare & Co, concerts in Luxembourg Garden on a fall-like day- we absorbed everything Paris, including the rain.
The Panthéon demanded an explore. One of the most important architectural achievements of its time and the first great neoclassical monument (final resting place of Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo and Louis Braille). It is also where, in 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment by constructing a 67 meter pendulum beneath the central dome. Both Kegan and Steve thought this worth pondering.
We strolled down quaint rue, intimate neighborhoods and through numerous parks to our final destination- the Champs de Mars for a 'picnic' dinner. It was one of those days that, at the end of it, you feel like you accomplished something!
1 comments:
Wow, I'll say you accomplished something! What a day! It doesn't seem to crowded there. Is it just the way you framed the shots?
I love those pretty birds!
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