Eiffel Tower
3 days, 600 pictures, and 5 hours at the Louvre later…
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | Travel | No Comments
I’m back in Siena, where I shall stay put until the 19th.
I’m not lying about the 600 pictures… I’ll have to sort carefully (during my designated procrastination time between papers and studying).
For anyone who has not been to Paris, I highly recommend it! Even if it costs you an arm and a leg (though I’ll loan you my student card to get into some museums for freeeeee) it is such an experience! I love Italy, the language, the people, the buildings, the food, the history, the art, the land, and everything else besides the pigeons, but if I hadn’t been here for a whole semester, I would not have felt like I saw enough. I don’t know if there is one place in Italy that has marveled me in every possible way, like Paris did. Milan, Rome, and Florence are all big cities, but none are as compacted with so much worth seeing and experiencing. We were there for just three days, but I feel like we were able see so many sights (granted, we did see the WHOLE city from the VERY top of the Eiffel tower) and do so many new things that it could have taken weeks to find equivalents in Italy.
I guess what I am trying to say is, if you have the time to stroll through Italy, and take your time stopping in Tuscan villages where you can still hand-pick olives and press your own oil, towns that still have the original medieval fortresses, and numerous cities that claim to be the birthplace, vacation spot, or at some-point residence of a pope or artist, by all means, it is completely worth it. But if you only have 3 days in Europe, head on over to Paris and be that tourist who takes a million pictures of the Mona Lisa. Did I mention that I actually stood next to a Vermeer painting? There are only 14 cities in the entire world where this is possible!
We did the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Champs d’Elysee, Pompidou, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, and so much more! Pictures are in the works!
I am going to go day dream about butter and sugar crepes now. Or write a paper.
Ciao!
Tricia