Our day of art at the Musee d’Orsay on Saturday was delightfully completed by a night of art at La Nuit Blanc, a city-wide, one night free annual arts festival. Justine, Michelle and I had some dinner at Justine’s, then hopped the metro to Le Marais (the Jewish and gay section of Paris), where La […]
Musee D’Orsay
Our second day in Paris started a bit slow on account of our first day ending in our first night, which turned out to be wild and late. What a treat, though, to sleep in, slowly wake up to the sound children playing in the square across the street, walk down to the boulangerie for […]
Nos Premier Jour et Nuit en Paris
On Friday, we made our way from the Eurostar train through the Metro to Dupleix, a cheerful neighborhood in the Southwest of Paris, just a short walk from the Eiffel Tower (I’m trying to mark all the major spots we visit on the map to the right, give it a click to see), where we […]
Prime Meridian
Haven’t fully adjusted to Greenwich Mean Time yet. We’re waiting now, groggy, to board the Eurostar train from London to Paris to take us through the Chunnel. We tossed and turned land commiserated about the ticking clock last night until we drifted blissfully off to sleep, about half hour before we had to wake up. […]
Touchdown
We made it! The plane ride was uneventful, the most terrifying part of being seated in the midst of 20 or 30 high-schoolers on some sort of class trip, but it was nothing a decent pair of earplugs and a half an Ambien couldn’t take care of. Once down in London, we made our way […]
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