#arcdutriumph

We aimed through the park in front of the Louvre museum. It was full of colors and people absorbed in different activities. There were group of people that had fitness classes, others had jogging, others relaxed on the chairs close to the fountains intended in conversations, people that just had a walk. The scenario was amazing due to the bloomed trees, the myriad of colorful flowers and the complicity of the sunny day. I smelled and felt the spring. At the end of the park we arrived in ‘place de la Concorde’ famous because of the executions that took places there during the French revolution (creepy). At the center of the square there is an Egyptian obelisk.

From ‘place de la Concorde’ we moved through the ‘avenue de Champs Elysees’. At the first cross-street, you will see two palaces called the ‘Petit palais’ and the ‘Grand palais’ which stand-out for their architecture. We entered the ‘Petit palais’. It is a free museum with contemporary artworks. The thing that I like the most was the courtyard, which is in the middle of the palace, where you can find a very nice restaurant.

I wanted also to visit the ‘Grand palais’. I read that it is very particular for its vaults, made completely of glass, but there was a temporary exhibition and it was mandatory to buy the ticket. I almost gave up, but we walked around the palace to admire it and we found an open door that allowed us to take a photo of the vault.

At the end of this street there is the famous ‘Alexandre III’ bridge with its gold statues, which gave us a beautiful view of the Sein and the ‘Eiffel’ tower.

We went back in the ‘avenue de Champs Elysees’ and we walked through the street. It was full of tourists that crowed all shops. It was very difficult to move along the road but at the same time was picturesque. The triumph arch was visible at the end of the street and it became wider and wider with each step. It is gigantic and below it I felt so small. It was very difficult to shoot a photo, it didn’t fit in the background. :P

We continued in the direction of the Trocadero. Anyway I was quite disappointed when we arrived there because the view of the ‘Eiffel’ tower was ruined due to some work in progress. We took anyway some photos, but I was sad. We passed through the stairs and we reached the tower.

The tower is a breath-taking building. We didn’t manage to go up because, when I organized the trip, it was already fully reserved. It was a misfortune because the view of the city from the top is inestimable.   We had some moments of relax in the grass of the ‘Champ de Mars’ with a lot of other people. It was amazing and charming with the ‘Eiffel’ tower as a background. I felt like in a French film :)

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”