Travel Meesh
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Day 2 - Dec 16 - Centre Pompidou
Day 2 - Dec 16 - To market, to market
Day 1 - Dec 15 - Random walk
The journey begins along les Champs D'Elysees where I am quickly accosted by a Mandarin/broken English-speaking Chinese lady who wants me to buy purses from LV for her using this wad of 900EU. I have never seen a wad of anything worth near 900EU before and am rather skeptical of her story. After I leave, I see her approaching other random tourists trying her luck. Sketchy. How would she possibly think that I in my sneakers, jeans and battered looking travel purse could possibly look not out-of-place in that store?
I keep walking, mainly admiring the window displays. I am a little intimidated about going into the stores, especially the ones that aren't very full. It reminds me most of the Magnificent Mile, but with wider sidewalks (see van backing up into a car-sales shop above). The Mile is positively claustrophobic with all those shoppers and tourists crammed on narrow sidewalks. Paris strikes me as more pedestrian friendly.
I criss-crossed along the bridges making my way up to the obelisk, where there is now also a ferris wheel installed. Nothing the scale of the Eye, but it directly faces the Arch. One side of the sky is a fiery orange, and the facing side is a light pink. I see the same hot air balloon (photo below) that I had noticed going up at the Arch.
Day 1 - Dec 15 - l'Arc de Triomphe
Back!
Ok, so I did not actually really blog while I was in France, but I will be retroactively blogging and posting pictures. I'm not sure how long it will take.
First post - Dec15 - l'Arc de Triomphe