Day 1 - Sunday
Went to the Luxembourg Gardens to catch a puppet show in the Theatre du Luxembourg. So much fun! It was all in French but since it was for kids, I could follow along with my very rusty French and my personal translator sitting beside me haha.
The best bit was the kids in front getting so excited!
The view from where we sat. 2 big heads in front but it was still a good view. Only 4E50 per person! French kids are so lucky...
Near the gardens, we walked to the Pantheon. It looks so majestic!
Went to the Luxembourg Gardens to catch a puppet show in the Theatre du Luxembourg. So much fun! It was all in French but since it was for kids, I could follow along with my very rusty French and my personal translator sitting beside me haha.
The best bit was the kids in front getting so excited!
The view from where we sat. 2 big heads in front but it was still a good view. Only 4E50 per person! French kids are so lucky...
Near the gardens, we walked to the Pantheon. It looks so majestic!
Couldn't go in because the Boy didn't bring his passport. Oh well, next time then :)
To the left of the Pantheon was the Universite de Paris area a.k.a the Sorbonne! Which got the Boy so excited - he might be applying there for next year - so we took a stroll the check it out. Very very impressive. It what you imagine a proper university should look like.
Well it was only a street after all and we didn't have anything else planned that day - seeing as it was drizzling with miserable rain. Ended up outside a Medieval looking wall. Turns out to the be the Paris Musee d'Moyen Age (The Museum of the Middle Ages). French tapestries and that. A lot of tapestries mind you.
One of the more impressive ones. There were loads. There was also some singing going on. I don't know how to describe it but it suited the location, that's all I can say.
Headed out after a while. The Boy bought a book on "The History of France" which he was absolutely obsessed with the next day. It was eventually banned on day 3 and 4 hehe.
Strolled around and ended up outside Notre Dame Cathedral. We didn't go in because it was crazy packed and there was a massive line. More pictures of the cathedral on another sunny day.
Near that was the Shakespeare and Company bookstore. I haven't heard of them personally, but the Boy and his brother do so we headed over. Unforch the side of it was covered in scaffolding but it still looked... cool.
Hint to English teachers: How to make Shakespeare cool? Name a bookstore after him and feature it in a movie.
One of the more impressive ones. There were loads. There was also some singing going on. I don't know how to describe it but it suited the location, that's all I can say.
Headed out after a while. The Boy bought a book on "The History of France" which he was absolutely obsessed with the next day. It was eventually banned on day 3 and 4 hehe.
Strolled around and ended up outside Notre Dame Cathedral. We didn't go in because it was crazy packed and there was a massive line. More pictures of the cathedral on another sunny day.
Near that was the Shakespeare and Company bookstore. I haven't heard of them personally, but the Boy and his brother do so we headed over. Unforch the side of it was covered in scaffolding but it still looked... cool.
Hint to English teachers: How to make Shakespeare cool? Name a bookstore after him and feature it in a movie.
The Boy bought a postcard for his brother and a cloth bookbag. Both I really like but it means more to the Boy for sentimental reasons. Also we got free cash! Which I reluctantly accepted was based on our luck and that we wouldn't be cursed. It was basically change from the cashier and she made a mistake. I didn't say anything at the time. The guilt! Ah well..
We walked around the Latin Quarter and around Rue de St-Michael and ended up at the Notre Dame cathedral again. Palm Sunday Procession! I had forgotten what day it was. Yay chocolate!
We wanted to head to the Louvre. I generally trust the Boy's sense of direction. However, on the way to the hotel on the first night we went the wrong way, saved only by asking for directions. So understandably I didn't want to walk in circles unnecessarily in Paris at night.
Hence when I needed to take a pee in one of the handy public toilet dotted around Paris, I also snapped a shot of the map next to it. Ah Paris, you understand us tourists so well...
We made it to the Louvre but it was nearing 10pm and we didn't know what time the Paris Metro stopped running (it was a Sunday, we panicked!) so we left without taking any proper pics.
Dinner on the way back to the hotel was Chinese! Cheap and cheerful and proper filling.
Hence when I needed to take a pee in one of the handy public toilet dotted around Paris, I also snapped a shot of the map next to it. Ah Paris, you understand us tourists so well...
We made it to the Louvre but it was nearing 10pm and we didn't know what time the Paris Metro stopped running (it was a Sunday, we panicked!) so we left without taking any proper pics.
Dinner on the way back to the hotel was Chinese! Cheap and cheerful and proper filling.
Then back to the Hotel. End Day 1!
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