Another Winter Day Has Come and Gone Away (Paris)

Sorry for the wait, everyone. I’ve needed some time to recover back in the States.

So anyways…Paris.

Paris was a slow week but we did a few cool things. The food was really good in general, and I had a crepe and French Onion Soup almost every day. The Louvre was beautiful, and the Musee d’Orsay was pretty cool too. I’ve been chasing Monets all over the world.

The room with the Mona Lisa is pretty crazy.

We also, of course, did the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe and Notre Dame. The Ferris wheel at the end of the Champs Elysses was very nice and there are Christmas markets everywhere right now. My favorite was outside Sacre Coeur.

Christmas Market at Sacre Coeur

Sacre Coeur at Sunset

View of Eiffel Tower from the top of the Arc de Triomphe

Notre Dame at Night

View of Champs Elysses and Arc de Triomphe from Ferris Wheel

Seeing the Palais Garnier, the opera house that inspired Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, was really cool. It was an ornate as one would expect. I loved it.

The ceiling in the theater, with the famous chandelier.

We also spent one day at Disneyland Paris.

Paris was nice, but it’s not on my list of places to go back to. Things were overpriced and overdone, to me. Perhaps it doesn’t help that I just don’t like French. Getting by in German, Italian and Spanish was easier for me, personally. I really wanted to see a few things in the Normandy region, though, so maybe next time.

 Getting back to the States was surreal. I celebrated with a giant Frappuccino.

 I desperately miss Europe, but I’m glad to be home for Christmas.

So ends another chapter. Thanks for reading, everyone ~