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