Sunday, July 29, 2012

I love Paris in the Summer

So much has happened since I last blogged! Let me play catch up; first, with Paris.

Our week away from the Netherlands began with Paris. Everywhere I turned my jaw dropped. I thought I'd make a quick list of things I saw and learned while roaming the streets of Paris. 

1. Paris is home to some of the most (quite literally) awesome sights in the world. Here are a few that took my breath away . . . 

The Eiffel Tower:



We went to the tippy top - scary, but beautiful!



Back on solid ground.


Chad and the tower at night.

The Louvre-the building itself is stunning, even without art it is a sight to see:



Miss Mona herself


Venus


It seemed like the thing to do.


Notre Dame:





The Last Five Kilometers of the Tour de France:

 


Palace of Luxembourg gardens:


Look at the sailboats in the pond behind me. The children laughed so sweetly as they played with their "ships".


Isn't this grand?  


 

Yes, we ate macaroons in the park. :)


2. I do not like French food, except for: coffee (cafe au lait), croissants, beignets, crepes, fries (Belgium actually owns the rights to those yummies), baguettes, macaroons and... I think that's it. Breakfast and lunch is great. Dinners, on the other hand, not so great. Following a series of dry, poor tasting evening meals, we caved and ate Italian; something I vowed to wait to do until in Italy, but desperate times call for desperate measures. :) 

3. The cigarette industry will never die as long as the French still live.

4. French women are beautiful. On the same street in the same moment you will see a woman who looks as if she's just stepped off a runway; tall, slender, sleek hair, elegant heels, long legs, and a great dress, and also one who looks as though she just rolled out of bed, threw on a dress, tied her hair up, and splattered some lipstick on. They are both gorgeous. 

5. I would not survive in Paris on my current salary. Everything is just too tempting to buy, and, for the most part, comparatively too expensive. 

6. Paris has a way of romancing her visitors. I want to come back and fall in love with Paris again.

More on Rome and Venice to come.

K + C


1 comment:

  1. I've never had a macaroon... aside from the Jewish kind that is. They look too beautiful to eat!

    I think with French food, you have to stick to bistros that the tourists aren't going too.

    By the way, I found your blog doing a random google search on Yankee women dating/marrying/married to southern men! I'm on the marriage path with a lovely man from Mississippian. I'm from New York and we both currently reside in Washington, DC. :)

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