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Architecture class: Field Trips: P1 and P2
... over to the church of Saint Severin. St. Severin is a much smaller, Gothic style church, only a couple blocks from N.D. There is almost no information on the history of the building, (I know because i had to do a little presentation on it for the class). There was a hermit back in the 5th century, i think, Severin, who lived along the Seine, and at one point he was called by the King of France at the time to perform a miracle. There is no information on ...
36hrs
... the shops. However on closer inspection we were far from having missed the boat. Any one of the fantastic authentic cafe's would normally had the pleasure of our custom, but, having taken our life in our hands to arrive we were feeling picky. The eventual winner was Cafe Papillion, owing mainly to its position next to a delightfully stinky cheese shop and opposite a superior looking butchers. We selected a couple of typically French street facing chairs so that ...
5 Years Later, And Nobody's Changed
... only a few mintues away from our apartment. Early this morning he was at our front door, and I felt like I was back at the Guinness Storehouse again :)
Having finally figured out how to work around the closed metro line, we took it (in a roundabout way) to Notre Dame and got there exactly when it opened. NO LINE! We walked right into the place. If Tim hadn't been there I probably would've taken a look around, but Tim and I have both seen ...
Taking in the icons
... ice cubes arrive. Hmm this is the healthy version! It us quite tasty and very refreshing. We notice lots of gendarme (police) in the gardens. I remember reading that the headquarters of the French secret police is under the Gardens. Maybe this police presence is to deter trouble. Our apartment is not far from here. We take a short cut through Saint Sulpice Place and as we pass pop into visit Saint Sulpice Church (also featured in Da Vinci Code but we can't remember ...
First ones up the Eiffel Tower!
... first souvenirs of the trip).
While we had hoped to go the the Musee d'Orsay today, we decided that we had seen and done enough for the day and that it would just have to go on our next Paris "to-do" list. I expect that is going to be a long list, but we think we have seen quite a bit in our few short days here.
We returned "home" to our hotel, which is really beginning to feel like home, and ...