This city is just dripping with Romanticism. Also, our tour guide Ari Fishman noted that given the history, it's likely someone was beheaded on every block. What a yuxtaposicion!
Welcome to Paris.
Today...
We landed in Beauvais, took a bus through the countryside, found out none of our phones were working, wandered around, got wifi, made a skype call, got keys to the apartment, got to the apartment via the metro, saw the Eiffel Tower and freaked out, saw our apartment and freaked out, walked across the river, took Louvre pics, drank haut chocolate at Angelina and had a macaron tasting (incredible edibles right there), walking through the Jardin de Tulieries, past the Gran Palais, all the way up Champs Elysees, under the Arc de Triomphe, metro'd to Passy, bought baguettes/cheese/wine/tomatoes/pate, ate it by a footbridge over the Seine looking right at the lit-up Eiffel Tower, marveled at the awesomeness of life, mocked tourists getting on a dinner tour, enjoyed the baguette immensely, went to a dance performance of the Trisha Brown Company at the National Theatre where there was yet another awesome Eiffelview, took the metro ON MY OWN to an NU housing building, partied with NU kids, ate McDonald's fried chevre wrap (more cheese!) with some orange soda, and walked all the way back home with my roommates.
What a day. Louvre in the morning. Awesome photoblog to come when I get home again. Because, who really wants to sit and blog when they're in what many have called the world's best city ever ever ever? Not this guy. (Well, maybe a little. I want to remember this, and get some sleep, too!)
Bon Soir, mes amis.
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