Grand Palais Paris

Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris , Île-de-France, France
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    Architectural building

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    Day #3 Boxing Day

    Venture out at 1:30 pm. Stop and have omeletes and grill cheese for brunch. Go to Grand Palais and the Luxembourg gardens (awesome gorgeous sunny day) Then head over to the Pantheon and University of Paris. Most things closed and very quite wandered around St. Germain and went into chocolate shop and to hiking skiing shops. End up after wandering a …

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    So the Adventure Begins

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    (All the pictures in this section are not mine as my pictures were lost)

    After my wonderful date with Sir Paul, we left around 2 and got back to Twickenham around 3. This left me about 20 minutes before I had to turn around to make my 5:40 train to Paris. While the adrenaline was enough to get me home it was not enough to get me to the …

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    Day Twenty Four - Eiffel Tower

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    I called the bag hotline when they opened, the service representative told me they had my bag. I said, thank god! (No longer an atheist when it comes to praying for my suitcase)

    I said is it on the next flight? she said, probably. I asked why probably. She said, well if the bags in Venice, it should be on the next flight. I then realized …

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    Paris, Je t'aime

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    ... deck of a hop on-hop off tour bus and listened to the commentary. We passed by The Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral, Orsay Museum, Grand Palais/Trocadero , Champs-Elysées, Opéra, and Champ de Mars. We rode the whole circuit before getting off back at the ...

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    Arrival in Paris

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    ... and come back tomorrow. We had a great (albeit quite long) walk along the Seine, seeing some great sights - like the Grand Palais (across the river), the Pont Alexandre III (in honour of Alexandre the Great, which is beautifully ornate and has statues ...

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    Awwwwwsome Paris!

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    ... de Seine, Pont des Arts) 9. Concorde (Obélisque de la Concorde, Musée de l'Orangerie) 10. Champs-Elysées Clemenceau (Grand-Palais, Petit Palais, Marché aux Timbres) 11. La Boétie - Champs-Elysées (Avenue Montaigne) 12. George V (Arc de ...

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    Spring time in Paris

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    ... busy roundabout. As if that wasn't enough to see for the day, we boarded the Metro once again en route to the Petit Palais, the Grand Palais and the Palais de l'Elysee, where President Nicolais Sarkosi works when he's in town. We walked to the ...

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    Paris - Day 6

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    ... when I arrived at the Champs Elysees Clemenceau Metro stop, I succeeded in purchasing a Mobilis, yay!  I walked the perimeter of the Grand Palais, which appeared to be undergoing some type of renovation. And then it was off to make my money back on ...

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    Chinatown, Louvre and more dead people

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    ... over their land - specifically the ornateness of the Byzantine influence. Also checked out an exceptional exhibit in the newly renovated Grand Palais on Sunken Treasures of Egypt, which was very long, very crowded, and actually quite cold. Yet it ...

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    Grand Palais, Place de la Concorde, and l'Opera

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    ... place. To this day, people bring roses to place around the flame to remember her. We then walked along Cours Albert I to the Grand Palais to see the temporary art exhibit of Anselm Kiefer. He was the son of a Jewish man captured and tortured during ...

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    Paris in 8 hours

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    ... . We continued on with the tour, but decided to sit on the lower deck as it was raining. The bus drove between the Grand Palais (palace) and the Petit Palais - the Grand is now used for art exhibits as well as theatre, dance and music productions, while ...

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    Ultima noite em Paris...

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    ... !! Enorme, brilhante e linda! - - -     Na segunda começamos o dia em uma incrivel exposição, no Grand Palais: "De Bizance a Istambul", uma super aula de historia! O que mais me chamou a atenção foi um quadrinho retratando ...

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    SUNDAY: The Last Stage of the Tour de France

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    ... were massive alongside the Champs Elysées. The Spaniards and Luxemburgers were occupying the same spot as last year, near the Grand Palais. In both cases, this year, they had reason to be proud, with the Spaniard Alberto Contador wearing the yellow ...