B&B Saint Denis Pleyel
Travel Blogs from St-Denis
Bright Lights, Big City
... for 1.5 euros you are escorted by a potty butler to a very nice stall complete with toilet paper in designer colors ... We took the subway to do the Rue Cler walk (Rick Steve's suggestion) a 3 block walk through a local neighborhood with, cheese Shops, flower stands, patisseries and a chocolatier, quaint and quick we walked the street and headed back to the Opera Garnier area. Stopped for lunch at a Cafe Oxliatte our waiter ...
Celebrating the human form.
... and Burghers of Calais capture our interest and attention. Such exquisite attention to the human body. The piece named Iris showcases Rodin's obsession with female genitals. After exploring the gallery and the garden and marveling that this building was once a hotel where Rodin lived and worked, we are cold. Time for a warming lunch; we find a cosy cafe nearby and enjoy a Berger Salad, shepherd's salad, goats cheese, jambon (cured ham) with loads of greens, eggs ...
A city growing lighter
... from the Musee D’Orsay so some of the pictures I had seen before. That made the gallery really special, every now and then I would stumble on a familiar painting, like bumping into an old friend in an unexpected place. Why seeing paintings from an exhibition from D’Orsay in THE D’Orsay could be a unexpected, I don’t know, am not applying the keenest logic, it would seem. Also the building it self is stunning, an old train station, ...
From Paris with Love
... Tower standing grand under yellow lights made my love for Paris instant. We drove through the most popular parts of Paris and ate in a nice little restaurant in the area of Bastille.
I ended up staying 6 nights with Aurelie, instead of the three originally planned. My days usually consisted of waking up around noon, visiting a new part of Paris and getting lost in the process, when Aurelie got off work she would show me ...
Paris, je t'aime
... and chocolate mousse. There are some girls from Sewanee studying in Paris for the semester, so we grabbed a taxi to meet up at one of their apartments. We decided to try to go to a new club they had heard about, so we hopped on the metro for what seemed like forever, but once we got there it was a 2 hour wait….so we went to a bar instead.
Monday was really our best day in Paris. We started early with our group at Notre Dame. It was ...