Due to
the bad weather we decide to take refuge in the most famous big store of
France: Galeries La Fayette. We don’t like it at all, so we leave it
immediately. We walk through the whole shopping area till we reach Place de la
Concorde. We want to visit the famous Christmas markets on the Champs Elysees.
To be honest, we find them very expensive and the people in those cute little
wooden houses that come one after the other up to the Arc du Triomphe, sell
more or less the same things. We only buy the mint of the desert tea, the one
that we tasted the night before at the Moroccan restaurant near our
hotel.
When we arriveto at the arc du triumphe, we discover that it is
possible to get on its top to admire the view, but we think that it would be
better to do that in the evening, to enjoy the Christmas lights on the avenue.
So we decide to come back later when it’s dark.
We spend the afternoon visiting the Louvre; a full day wouldn’t be enough to appreciate it all. Once again, I find myself in front of the Mona Lisa, the most admired stamp in the world! So it was nothing new to me to find it so small. I will not dwell on the Louvre museum for too long but I can tell you that, in order to avoid the line of people that crowds around the pyramid, you can directly enter the museum from the subway exit: you follow the signs, get the ticket at the automatic machines (10 euro) and you find yourself right in the vast hall of the museum, where you can find info points, wardrobe, bars, shops, bathrooms, etc...
When we leave the museum is already dark, we dwell taking pictures and then retrace the Champs Elysees in the opposite side this morning to look at the stalls that we were missing. This brings us again to the bow but it's already past 8 pm, we’re destroyed and hungry and we didn’t want to do anything, not even to climb the Arc du Triomphe. So we decide to go back to the hotel and go out to eat at a French restaurant just nearby. The kitchen doesn’t satisfy us fully, tomorrow we’ll return at the Moroccan restaurant.
When we arrive
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| Markets Trocadero 2011 © Giovanna Puccia. All rights reserved. |
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| Arc du Triomphe 2011 © Giovanna Puccia. All rights reserved. |
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We spend the afternoon visiting the Louvre; a full day wouldn’t be enough to appreciate it all. Once again, I find myself in front of the Mona Lisa, the most admired stamp in the world! So it was nothing new to me to find it so small. I will not dwell on the Louvre museum for too long but I can tell you that, in order to avoid the line of people that crowds around the pyramid, you can directly enter the museum from the subway exit: you follow the signs, get the ticket at the automatic machines (10 euro) and you find yourself right in the vast hall of the museum, where you can find info points, wardrobe, bars, shops, bathrooms, etc...
When we leave the museum is already dark, we dwell taking pictures and then retrace the Champs Elysees in the opposite side this morning to look at the stalls that we were missing. This brings us again to the bow but it's already past 8 pm, we’re destroyed and hungry and we didn’t want to do anything, not even to climb the Arc du Triomphe. So we decide to go back to the hotel and go out to eat at a French restaurant just nearby. The kitchen doesn’t satisfy us fully, tomorrow we’ll return at the Moroccan restaurant.
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| Louvre2011 © Giovanna Puccia. All rights reserved. |
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| Champs Elisée 2011 © Giovanna Puccia. All rights reserved. |
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