Here Comes The Sun

It's Spring in Paris, so the weather is so beautiful now or like they'll say here 'Il fait beau'. We decided to take advantage of this weather and go to one of the gardens. We went to Jardin des Tuileries, my new favorite place in Paris.

 

 

 

Ma Belle Sœur

My failed attempt to look cool. The Sun was in my eyes

We walked down the Quai du Louvre. Parisians really know how to enjoy life. Just love how everything is so laid back... Le Bon Temps!

People sitting by the Seine

Le Pont des Arts

I love every possible schmaltzy scenario-  messages in a bottle, serenades, coins in a fountain and all that. Le Pont des Arts is one of the most famous bridges in Paris. Hundreds of Parisian lovers attach a strong Lovelock engraved with their names and a few words to the side of the bridge. After which they throw the key into the Seine, and leave the lock behind as a symbol of the strength of their everlasting love. The sweetest thing!! Peut-être un jour, je mettrai un la!

View of L'ile de la Cite from Pont des Arts

Fontaine de la Concorde is one of the most beautiful fountains in Paris. If you've seen 'Devil Wears Prada' this might be of interest to you. This is the same fountain that Anne Hathaway throws her cell phone in after she leaves Meryl Streep

Le Louvre: Part Deux

Finally got a chance to go to the famous Louvre. This museum has a vast collection of sculptures and paintings. It's quite impossible for someone to see every single one, well maybe if you go on a tour. But I can't spend 4 hours in a museum. So I'm just going to post things that I liked or was interested in

Musée du Louvre

 

Interior of the Grand Louvre Pyramid

View of the Grand Louvre Pyramid from inside the Louvre

 

   

 

 The ceilings were so extravagant.

Greek & Roman Sculptures

I found that I was more interested in the sculptures especially the Greek sculptures. After taking a Greek mythology class, I have become with anything that is associated with Greek mythology.

Zeus/Jupiter: God of the Sky & King of the Gods

Bacchus/Dionysus: God of Wine

Narcissus

 

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Athena/Minerva: Goddess of War

Ares/Mars: God of War

Apollo: God of the Sun

Hercules & his son Telephe

Hermes/Mercury:  The Messenger God

Venus de Milo (Aphrodite):  Goddess of Love

Cupid/Eros: God of Love

Doesn't Cupid look like he's doing the doggie. LOL

French & Italian Sculptures

Spartacus

The Three Graces

I really loved this sculpture. Simple, but yet so beautiful and elegant.

Satyre and Bacchante

Captifs

Paintings

The Famous Mona Lisa

The crowd around this painting was always much. So annoying cause people were trying to pose with the painting. Pose with a painting  really. Getting a good picture was a problem

Liberty guiding the People

  I was excited to see this cause Coldplay used it for the cover of their "Viva La Vida: An Death of All His Friends" album and I LOVE Coldplay!!

Egyptian Sculptures

Egyptian Sphinx

Egyptian Mummy

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Bises! x

Pigalle

My sister came to Paris for a few days and I was happy she was here. As a gallavanter, I felt it was my duty to show her everything Paris has to offer. The weather was wonderful that day so our first stop was Pigalle. It's right by the Montmartre area. I had been here by myself before but this was a totally different experience. Pigalle is known for being the raunchiest part of Paris. With its sex shops, peep shows and cabarets. If you're lucky to be there at night, that's when the prostitutes come out. Well, we were there in the day so we didn't see any of that, thankfully, but I think we got the gist of it just from what we saw.

 Moulin Rouge

Yes, it's 175 Euros you see and that was the cheaper fare.

Which explains why we just looked around, but calling all sponsors... hehe

 

 

 

These sex shops were everywhere. They were priority on the street. If you were trying to find a boulangerie or a pharmacie, it would be hard.

 

*sings* "I'm too sexy for my shirt"

 

 

Nahhh, this can't be eroticism a

We stopped for lunch at La Marmite on Boulevard de Clichy

  Dubem :-)

 

 Moi

Was a lot, rest assured, we didn't finish it all.

Then we walked to up the hill to see Sacre-Cœur

 

It was so packed cause it was so nice out

 

 Us

Bientôt!!