Bonjour! Today we did nothing…nothing but roam Paris on a rainy day for our May term final. Truly terrible…except not at all.
For our final we had a scavenger hunt around Paris. We made use of the wonderful metro and were able to visit sights and streets we hadn’t visited before.
First, we saw the fancy graves at the cemetery of Montmatre–beautiful houses filled with dead bodies. We then stared at faces–or bodies depending on our height–on the metro, because lunch rush hour in Paris is real. We ended up at Musee Guimet, a beautiful museum of Asian arts.
The middle picture shows the Grand Palais and Petite Palais, which were indeed as grand and very little petite in their majestic presence as their names imply. We then visited the golden statue of Joan of Arc near the Louvre.
After that we decided we were starving from walking and so we ate at the Carousel cafe near the statue. After butchering escargot and the French language we decided to walk towards Pont des Arts. From that picture you can see how much it’s been raining since the Seine has literally risen to the benches where we’ve eaten one too many baguettes.
We then went to St-Étienne-du-Mont to see where St. Genevieve’s tomb is housed. The church itself is stunningly beautiful and we stood there mesmerized by both its beauty and good ol’ Beethoven* playing the organ.
We saw the Romanesque church of St. Germain des Pres and landed among the high end retail stores and cafés where all the beautiful Parisians hang out.
This was our final. Roaming through the streets of Paris getting a glimpse of the history this beautiful city holds. It was awful.
*Beethoven wasn’t actually playing the organ…but he could have been 😉
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