Touristyisming Paris
I'd like to welcome everybody to day 4 of our stay in Paris!John and I have finally moved out of our hostel, or as we call it "THE WORST PLACE EVER!!"and have relocated ourselves to a nice basement apartment which as previously stated we have all to ourselves. It is situated in an area of Paris famous for its little known burlesque house, 'The Moulin Rouge". In other news we walked a lot today and saw more monuments/structures/thingies.
In addition if you check your lastoke calendars you will see that John and I have been traveling straight for a full month now, and having successfully completed this feat we have decided...to continue.
I cannot do the Can Can,
Stuart from Canada
P.S PANTS PARTY!!!!!!!!!!
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posted by Stuart from Canada at
15:13
5 Comments:
Outside Musee Pompidou is the most fantastic fountain ever. Inside Musee D'Orsay (a former railway station) is some wonderful art, but the view along from end to end makes it worth a visit. Crazy Horse Saloon is overpriced and overrated. I agree about the book stalls along the Seine. Boul' Mich is great for people-watching, so is Sacre Coeur, and many Metro trips.
I hope you are going to buy black and white striped shirts and red berets before you leave Paris... Feel free to bring these home for me if you feel so inclined...
Is there revolution there? Have you joined the underground yet? All very important things to do in paris.
I love the mini statue of liberty. Brings back memories of Cherbourg France, which is dotted with tiny obelisks put there by Napoleon, who was trying to re-create the slendours of Egypt. On an obviously smaller budget.
Strangely, the area was dotted with condoms, also. ;-) Must be part of the display, as in take that, USA! Fock you, Egypt!
the accordion theme and comment about revolutions and undergrounds reminds me of Edith Piaf, patron pin-up singer to the French 'paras' who went down to bitter defeat and abandonment in Algeria (see the classic 1966 movie Battle of Algiers) and hired an assassin to kill de Gaulle by whom they felt betrayed (see the not-so-classic move The Jackal) then the can-can stuff brings Offenbach to mind - you should ask older locals if they remember de Gaulle and Piaf, and what they think of them... maybe they'd buy you a pastisse while they tell you the story, and you could practice french until they force you to marry their daughters...on second thought...maybe slip away to the provinces and play boules for baguettes...
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