I liked it that way.
- Breakfast: totally french. Baguette with Camembert cheese... amazing.
- waited in line for almost an hour to climb 400 stairs up the Towers of Notre Dame. view was great, liked the "gargoyles".
- Ate Nutella crepes on a park bench by Notre Dame
- Visited the Museum d'Orsay
- Ate another baguette with Camembert cheese
- Visited the Rodin Museum...
- Bought a trashy novel in the famous bookstore "Shakespeare and Co."
- Ate expensive ice cream in a little cafe
- Laid on a park bench near the Eiffel Tower and read some of my bad fiction
- Caught the metro to Montmartre
- Visited the Basilica Sacre Coeur in the middle of a Mass, the church is so beautiful and the ambiance during the mass was amazing--they sung and prayed (in french). it didn't even have that churchy musty smell!
- Browsed cheap gift shops in Montmartre-- realized I got ripped off paying 1 Euro for my Eiffel tower keychain AND 30 cents for postcards... oh well.
- Ate a cheese and tomato panini for dinner (YUM)
- Avoided strange black men
- Took the metro home... i love the metro
I climbed a lot of stairs, ate a lot of bread and cheese... and it was fabulous.
Some interesting things about today:
1. in the Musee d'Orsay, this guy got a business call on his cell phone and this older French gentleman/coot starts going off in bad English about how inappropriate it is to have a conversation in the middle of a museum, and after the guy leaves to continue his call elsewhere, the older French gentleman/coot continues going off to the guy's wife, who is obviously feeling a little intimidated by the French gentleman's/coot's audacity to make such a scene...
2. i saw this younger dude on the Metro on the way home and I totally wanted to take a picture of him, his hair was AWESOME.. it was longer, and he just had so much of it... i guess you had to have been there.
3. Musicians like to hang out in metro stations...and on the metros themselves. they even come around with a cup expecting you to give them money for the service, lol... it is kind of neat to have a sax or clarinet in the metro while you're riding, i'll admit
4. I have not had anything stolen from me this entire trip so far
5. I ate too much today and I don't really give a hoot nor holler. French bread and cheese is amazing and i know I'll burn everything off when I get home!
All in all it is really awesome to be able to travel like this. Quite an expensive hobby, i must admit, though. But it's a cool feeling when you suddenly become aware for a moment you're in the middle of a city with so much history. you're really there. I am really here. it was cool today to just sit. i made it a point to just sit. if I felt like doing something, I did it. I wanted to eat bread and cheese, i did it, I wanted to leave the museum, I left. I wanted to buy a book, I did. I wanted to take the stairs instead of the escalator? I DID.
And the whole day, well, it just rocked.
