Kyriad - Meaux

... in the Italian and French sections of the Denon wing and found some paintings that grabbed us with their emotion. One was of a burial of a young women by her boyfriend and Priest, they were puting her in the ground but the boyfriend was tormented and didn't want to let go. Very moving. Taylor surprised me with her critique and interests. She is becoming a great young woman, Andy and Kristen should be proud! The Mona Lisa is overrated as a museum piece but ...

... Juri s*ys ... Fougeres w*s * gre*t experience. It w*s our first big 'outing' *s * f*mily, h*ve h*ving been l*id low for * number of d*ys. As mentioned, it r*ined, but it w*s not cold *nd it seemed to *dd to the over*ll *tmosphere in * positive w*y. We h*d our r*in co*ts on. This w*s *lso quite novel h*ving come from Perth's dryness. Seeing * cycle r*ce from such close qu*rters g*ve me *n insight into the *ddictive qu*lity of the sport. Loc*ls c*me out in big numbers to ...

... U.S. I spent the majority of the day on train back here. The hostel I'm in is VERY nice. It is more like a hotel than a hostel which is nice for decreasing stress on the way back. Tonight I walked through the area a bit. The hostel is somewhat far away from where I was living so I got to look around yet another interesting arrondissement of Paris ...

... home around 4pm and took a nap. The rest of the day was spent running errands (including pants shopping for me as I managed to split one of my two pairs of pants in Paris). Wednesday: Another biggie here- the Louvre. Again we started with the Rick Steves audio tour (thank God for Rick Steves) which took us to the biggies of the Louvre (Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, Mona Lisa) and, of course, the most crowd filled. By the time we finished the tour, we were sick of ...

... a diet of acorn and grass, and I'm certainly not going to argue whether it's better than Italian prosciutto, but it tasted damn good that night. 8) Cheese plate: the only uninteresting course of the meal. In fact, I can't even remember what we had... Dessert consisting of a soufflé with pistachio ice cream and a raspberry sorbet. Fantastic meal.... We ended the evening by taking a night boat ride along the Seine. So touristy, but highly enjoyable, especially after ...

... The Louvre is massive, 4 levels of mostly European and Egyptian art, it will take the entire day just to speedily walk through them all, if you want to "see" all the arts and antiques, it could take 10 days. The collection is very impressive, even in the low season for tourists, the place is jam packed. I can't imagine how crowded it would be like in peak season of July and August.

... De Gaulle Avenue until we got to our town of Neuilly again and jumped into a little cafe and had some lunch. For sure, we were the only tourists in there. The special of the day was a big steak with a bowl (and I mean bowl) of Bernaise sauce. He was amazed that the men were chowing down on those steaks and tossing down a couple beers with them ...

... bit of a flat tire, which made it ***********trol, so there were more times than not that I almost went ass over tea kettle. When Marie Antoinette was Queen she wanted to make her own cottage on the grounds, so that is exactly what it is. We rode our bikes to this cottage which also serves as a small farm/petting zoo. It was quite magical, you could totally picture it back in the day. We all wanted to go see the animals, but it turned out to be 9 euros (what a waste ...

... off with a guided sightseeing tour of the city. It was a good orientation of the city. Then off to go exploring some more. The main goal of the day was to see Michaelangelo's "David" at the Academia, so after a failed attempt to jump the queue, we waited in the long line and ate gelato. The line only took an hour or so, then we went in and saw David. Very cool. Took some sneaky pictures. Wandered around the rest of the museum, but the rest was nothing compared to David. More walking ...

... pilattu mutta hyvin sillä nyt laskee paremman puutteessa.. Suomalaisia on taas pilvin pimein..kolme kämpällistä, about viitisen toista lisää. Taidetaan osaa majoittaa meillekin loppuviikosta. Arska paistaa todella kuumasti ja mukavahan se on ollut yhdessä istua puuteripäivän jälkeen terassilla. Tänään olisi taas bändi-ilta, joten eiköhän siellä törmäillä. Auto on vähän heikossa jamassa lumikerroksen alla ...