Paris By Day

Since I heard its lines are monstrous during the day, the first thing I did was book it to the Eiffel Tower early in the morning. But I had to stop and take a few pictures from outside the Louvre first. The Tower is pretty cool. Definitely check it out if you're ever over here. I hiked over to the Arc de Triomphe, then all the way back through this like 2 mile long park in front of the Louvre before turning down towards the Cathedral De Notre Dame, and down to the Pantheon, but I didn't really feel like paying to go into any of them. I saw the view of the city from the Tower, and I can live without ever having seen the resting places of Voltaire and Rousseau (although I do admire them both).

Almost every building I walked past was amazing. I almost got used to constantly being surrounded by beauty. The sad thing is that there are beautiful buildings worthy of being photographed, but (and I'm obviously guilty of this too) when they stand right next to the Cathedral de Notre Dame or the Louvre, everyone is too busy taking pictures of the more well known architecture.

I'm not finding all that much night life here. My guidebook doesn't mention too much, my hostel got overrun by a group of kids on a fieldtrip or something, and my new roommates just wanted to play crazy eights in the room... so meeting people here has been something of a challenge... what's up with that? ...Paris definitely has the street cafe thing going on. Maybe the culture favors that more than clubs and bars.