Venus Apartments

... pay for being able to see each start come out.  Besides, the food itself left me unimpressed. With our bare eyes, we saw Venus, Orions Belt, and then star after star I couldn't name twinkle into existence.  By the time we were all done with dinner and ...

... as the subject of the paintings of the seven salons of this apartment" (Félibien des Avaux, 1674).  These apartments included the salons of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Diana, and Apollo which were all dedicated to a heavenly body.  But as we entered the ...

... but prior to the early 1700's it was the center for the government (Kings and Napoleon), and contained the meeting rooms, apartments for officials and guests, and all kinds of other goodies. Very very cool. Last thing - the center rooms containing ...

... trip to the Beka'a Valley to visit Baalbek. You climb quickly above Beirut through hillsides covered with high rise apartments and plastic greenhouses growing the endlessly needed tomatoes. Only twenty minutes outside Beirut (or two hours by bus) ...

... and fresh fruit. The other interesting thing was the gas stations are located below residential apartments which I thought was a little strange. I really liked their recycling bins. :) They ...

... English language book store that Hemingway and James Joice frequented during their stay in Paris. Even today writers can rent the apartments above the book store for cheap and borrow books from the shop. The walking tour took us past the oldest ...

... walked straight in.  Went straight to the Mona Lisa, then wandered for several hours through the galleries seeing Venus de Milo, the apartments of Napoleon III, lots of paintings and sculptures, the Pyramid and Egyptian relics.  Outside we went ...

... room is dedicated to and decorated with a different celestial body/Roman god, eg Apollo/the sun, Jupiter, Venus), the chapel, and the Dauphin's apartments. All are impossibly extravagant, with no space for any more decoration to be squeezed in. Best of ...

... of Napoleon... while I myself intended to visit the moat, some of the statues that I missed the year before, Napoleon III's apartments, and the paintings section. I ended up seeing some of the things I had seen, such as objects from Mesopotamia, Sumer and ...

... minute) they found the original castle walls and they are part of this self-guided tour. We also got to see Napoleon’s apartments and an amazing room that had every surface covered with artwork. As for the pyramid, I don’t care what the ...

... embarked upon a very ambitious poddling project of land reclamation from the sea, land on which more and new hotels, offices and apartments will be buillt. To conclude our time in Beirut, Naji treated us to yet another great meal in the city before ...

... ; This edifice was completed in 1912 as an apartment complex.  Interesting, Gaudí wanted the people who lived in the apartments (“flats”) to communicate with each other so there are only elevators on every second floor so you’d ...

... , so when you arrive they give you a list of the 'must see's' of the Louvre (The Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), Napoleon III's apartments, etc) which still totals in about 40 different items. We decided to try starting at the bottom and work our ...

... observatory. Then off to River Cruise near Musse Dorsay for 2.5 hour Seine night cruise...was fantastic...lights flickering and the apartments on Seine just amazing...at Eiffel Tower flickering fest once again at 11pm. Nice walk home, about 20 minutes to ...

... . Our continuing tour took us through galleries of Greek statues, mostly men and mostly missing essential parts of their anatomy. The apartments of Napoleon III were magnificent. The emperor had only to snap his fingers to acquire a new jewellry box or ...

... because it was undoubtedly the most amazing palace I've ever seen. We toured the palace, the hall of mirrors and the kings apartments. Then we walked all across the grounds and gardens. I have learned much more about the French court and the Monarchy in ...

... all but spill out of the place. They even have a "Da Vinci Code" audio tour.  The Louvre also houses the apartments of Napoleon III with his grand dining hall, sitting studios and hardly modest bedroom.  Even with the impressive lineup of ...

... cheeky Mona Lisa (did she wink?), the sensuous Venus de Milo and wander through the opulent and majestic Napoleon III's apartments.  Consider some of Napoleon's decorating tips should you ever become a gazillionaire. -      ...

... coffee and rest before we hopped back on the met to take us back to the apartment. We made our way back to our apartments with the view of catching up again at about 7pm for drinks before dinner. From about 4pm the Bastille Place was starting to get ...