we spent ten glorious days in paris! i tried really hard to narrow down my photos but it's still going to take me three posts to publish all of the ones i deemed necessary. all of these photos look kind of dreary and overcast, because it rained pretty much the whole time we were in paris. i really like them though; i think they definitely capture the feeling of the city while we were there.
the first thing we did in paris was visit the beautiful notre dame and sainte-chapelle cathedrals and the musée de cluny, which has a collection of medieval art. during our free time we headed to the champs-élysées to see the arc de triomphe and get some macarons at ladurée and to the champ de mars to see the eiffel tower up close for the first time. paris was dreamy and exciting and everything i imagined it would be. and one great thing about paris is the delicious cheap food. we had crêpes multiple times a day and all of the street food was so good. we went to a famous place called l'as du fallafel in the marais and it was the best falafel i've ever had by far.
in paris, of course we spent lots of time in the louvre. three days, in fact. with 35,000 objects on display, of course we could spend three days there and still only see a fraction of it all! some of the highlights pictured above are the nike of samothrace, the venus de milo, canova's psyche and cupid, the seated scribe, david's oath of the horatii, rembrandt's bathsheba at her bath, and of course, da vinci's mona lisa. we walked past the mona lisa during the middle of the day and it was madness. the secret to getting up close is going first thing when the museum opens or last thing right before the museum closes. we went to see the mona lisa just before closing a couple times and it was always totally empty and we could get as close as we wanted! i love the louvre. and paris. two more posts to be continued!
the first thing we did in paris was visit the beautiful notre dame and sainte-chapelle cathedrals and the musée de cluny, which has a collection of medieval art. during our free time we headed to the champs-élysées to see the arc de triomphe and get some macarons at ladurée and to the champ de mars to see the eiffel tower up close for the first time. paris was dreamy and exciting and everything i imagined it would be. and one great thing about paris is the delicious cheap food. we had crêpes multiple times a day and all of the street food was so good. we went to a famous place called l'as du fallafel in the marais and it was the best falafel i've ever had by far.
in paris, of course we spent lots of time in the louvre. three days, in fact. with 35,000 objects on display, of course we could spend three days there and still only see a fraction of it all! some of the highlights pictured above are the nike of samothrace, the venus de milo, canova's psyche and cupid, the seated scribe, david's oath of the horatii, rembrandt's bathsheba at her bath, and of course, da vinci's mona lisa. we walked past the mona lisa during the middle of the day and it was madness. the secret to getting up close is going first thing when the museum opens or last thing right before the museum closes. we went to see the mona lisa just before closing a couple times and it was always totally empty and we could get as close as we wanted! i love the louvre. and paris. two more posts to be continued!
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