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Day Two : The Great Walkabout

audiomic — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:30:22 +0000

Today we started later than we intended. For some reason we both slept through our 08:30 alarm (which is rare for Lily, but not for me). We got out of the apartment around 11:30.
We made up for it by walking for almost 7 hours straight.
We headed towards the siene with our original intention being to walk along it to La Tour d'Eiffel.
We accidentally stumbled upon the Louvre of all things. We walked through the courtyard to the main entrance and enjoyed the ambiance of the crowd for a bit. We passed through our first small glimpse of beautiful Parisian gardens and big water fountains.
We continued along to Place de Concordes. We got our first sighting (from a distance) of the Tour d'Eiffel from here. From then we set our sights on the Champs-Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe.
We crossed to the west side and moved forward. By this point already we began to feel tired (not helped by the fact that we only had a cup of coffee and quarter of a palmelo for breakfast due to our late start). We came across lots of overpriced, touristy restaurants and other "high end" retail. Suprisingly there were a few car manufacturer showcase stores in amongst regular downtown retail (something we don't come across in North America).
We came to Arc de Triomphe and could not figure out to get across the vicious roundabout to it.
I wanted to just try and go for it (across all the speedy cars). Lily was more sensible and insisted we keep looking for another way across.
She was right, we finally came upon an underpass on the north side.
We rested for a bit beneath the arc, regained our bearings (I did, Lily was never quite sure which direction we were facing).
We crossed to the other side of the Champs-Elysées and headed south.
We finally had some lunch. Two fantastic baguettes from Brioche Dorée (a chain restaurant?) to go.
We went into a Virgin Megastore and looked around for a bit (I was going to get a Jean Vigo boxset, but decided to wait).
The store alarm buzzed on our way out and security waved us over. We asked if he wanted to check our bag and he looked confused and pointed at his ear. Eventually he waved us on. We still don't know if he was a deaf security guard or did not understand English (he didn't say a word to us).

We walked back down and passed behind the Grand Palais on Franklin D. Roosevelt avenue and crossed back to the left bank. We had heard so much of the view of the Eiffel Tower at the Place des Invalides that we headed that way. -- BTW, they were wrong! Near there was Napoleon's statue, more beautiful architecture and his tomb.

Finding our way back to Mouffetard and going through our dark courtyard was a pleasure to finally rest our feet again. [gallery]

L'église du Dôme des Invalides

galyee — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:24:08 +0000

restaurées...

Deux nouveaux monuments de Paris!!

Clémentine — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:03:43 +0000

Le Panthéon (ici) et les Invalides (ici) vous ouvrent leurs portes!

Les questionnaires sont disponibles dans la section Muséexpos ou en suivant les liens ci dessus! Les beaux jours arrivent, profitez-en!

Invalides

wulfmachine — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:05:28 +0000

today i visited the museum invalides in paris which is famous for the tomb of napoleon and the museum of he french army.

i updated my Picasa Web-Album with some pics of there

End of February Adventures: Invalides & Paris Erasmus Party #2

meaganmak — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:53:18 +0000

Well, it looks like I have to write another post for February again! So my friend Stefania turns out to be leaving for her internship this Saturday, March 1st, so we decided to have a little get together as out last time to see each other in Paris on Wednesday. We trekked over to Invalides, where Napoleon is buried. However, we were just an hour too late, getting there at 5pm, the tomb being closed at 4pm. So we ended up just taking a walk outside the building and around the garden. The pictures I took are posted on Facebook!

The next day I went to the Paris Erasmus Party for the second time at Mix Club. This time was a lot more fun as I was bothered a lot less. I still got grabbed a few times, but no one kept at it after I shoved them off of me like the last time, so it wasn't so bad at all. And not only that but I bumped into a friend of mine from school, in fact my friend Claire whom I went with the last time I went there! Anyway, it was a lot of fun and my friend and I even met another Canadian girl and her friend who's American. All in all it was a silly, fun time, and some of the moments are recorded and can be found on my page on Facebook again!

Tonight will be another night out with friends. I am heading out with Michelle, a girl I met volunteering with the animal rights group here called Droits des Animaux. She invited me out with her friends, so we'll see what mayhem ensues! I'm sure pictures will surface on Facebook soon enough!

Thanks for listening and I hope all of you are doing well, my thoughts are with you!

Cheers,

Meagan

La tête dans les nuages ...

Catherine — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:39:44 +0000

Bonjour à toutes et à tous.

Tandis que, sur Paris, le ciel menace de nous tomber sur la tête d'un instant à l'autre, je vous propose aujourd'hui une photo prise il y a quelques jours, un soir de brouillard, sur l'esplanade des Invalides.

Notre pauvre tour Eiffel a la tête dans la brume, pendant qu'une petite pluie fine et persistante achève de flouter la scène ...

(c) Parismages.com

En espérant que vous passez un bon après-midi au chaud et à l'abri, je vous souhaite un bon dimanche à toutes et à tous.

Desvendando Hôtel Des Invalides

Mônica Azevedo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:00:47 +0000

Foi construído durante o reinado de Luís XIV, para alojar veteranos de guerra feridos e desabrigados. Destaca-se na paisagem, o Dôme dourado da igreja, que abriga os restos mortais de Napoleão. Abriga também o Musée de l'Armée, que mostra curiosidades como uma das barracas usadas por Napoleão nos acampamentos durantes as muitas batalhas travadas por ele, a evolução da badeira do país e a parte que realmente achei muito interessante, dedicada a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Como chegar lá:

Metrõ: Linha 8, Latour-Maubourg, Invalides
Linha 13, Saint-François-Xavier, Invalides, Varenne
RER : linha C, "Invalides"
ônibus : 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, Balabus
Estacionamento : esplanade des Invalides

Horários de Abertura:

Todos os dias do ano, exceto as primeiras 2feiras de cada mês e as seguintes datas 01/Jan, 01/Mai, 01/Nov e 25/Dez
Aberto de 10:00 às 17:00, de 01/Out à 31/Mar,
Aberto de 10:00 às 18:00, de 01/Abr à 30/Set

Quanto custa:

- Tarifa cheia : 8 €
- Tarifa reduzida : 6 € (estudantes com menos de 26 anos de idade, grupos com pelo menos 15 pessoas com mais de 60 anos de idade e veteranos de guerra)
- Grátis para menores de 18anos
Exibições temporárias serão cobradas à parte como nos outros museus

Como eu disse anteriormente , a visita do Hôtel Des Invalides não é imperdível, mas para quem gosta de História e principalmente do assunto segunda guerra ,vale a pena conhecer o museu.

Il y a des jours...

Claude — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:36:36 +0000

... où ce n'est même pas la peine de prévoir ce qu'on va faire ! Hier, après avoir déjeuné du côté du Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées avec mes cousins, qui sont allés visiter la rétrospective Courbet que j'avais déjà vue, au Grand Palais, je me suis dit que j'allais entrer faire un tour au Petit Palais, un musée superbe et rénové, gratuit, qui plus est, (merci à la Mairie de Paris).

Fermé le lundi

mais où j'ai trouvé la superbe porte close !
Comme il faisait un temps superbe, je me suis dit que j'allais plutôt prendre des photos sur le Pont Alexandre III, puisque jusqu'à présent, je n'y avais pris des photos que par temps gris.

Pont Alexandre III, détail

Puis, je me suis dirigée vers les Invalides, parce que j'avais entendu parler d'une expo qui m'intéressait, Amours, guerres et sexualités, 1914-1945, et là encore, j'ai trouvé porte close. Les Invalides se reposent le premier lundi du mois !
Je n'allais pas m'avouer vaincue pour si peu, donc je me suis attaquée aux mascarons de la façade des Invalides, --côté gauche uniquement ;)

!!!

Quelques mascarons des Invalides

The dome of the Invalides

Claude — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:59:52 +0000

and a peek at the Eiffel Tower

Rendre à César ce qui appartient à César

switchie — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:18:37 +0000

Rien à dire ce soir (comme depuis le début d'ailleurs). Juste ceci en vitesse : en rentrant, je passe devant le Dôme des Invalides. Au second plan, la création du Roi Soleil. Au premier plan : la Création de Dieu. J'ai bien regardé sous les petits trèfles : pas la moindre signature sur les tiges ou les feuilles. Humilité absolue de l'artiste : Dieu n'a pas jugé nécessaire de signer son oeuvre ; ça me fait plaisir. Je me rappelle que quand la sonde Pioneer était passée entre les anneaux de Saturne, la NASA avait pris des clichés, et que, là aussi, on avait pu voir que Dieu n'avait pas mis son nom à l'intérieur des anneaux. Pas de © ! Les vrais artistes ne signent pas leurs oeuvres. Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto, sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Le Paradis est un état
"Installations" de Dieu
Peut-être que le Bon Dieu...
L'infini dans la paume de la main
Que Dieu éteigne le soleil un moment

Video my revolution stack in the middle of Paris

revolutionkite — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:01:44 +0000

My Stack filmed by some tourists in the middle of Paris, (The Invalides by the river) - February 2008

As you see, it's a 3 revolution kites stack made of mylar with the colours of the french flag wich matches with all the other flags on the top of the bulding in the area !!!

Train de cerf-volant aux couleurs du drapeau français - qui va parfaitement avec les drapeaux flottants sur les Invalides, au milieu de Paris !!!

All the videos on that site are downloadable in the mpg4"http://revolutionkite.free.fr/

Paris in Four Days

bspicher — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:05:55 +0000

[caption id="attachment_44" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Glass Pyramid from Inside the Louvre"][/caption]

At last, I have published a page detailing my adventures and misadventures in Paris. For four days, I was lost in Paris' narrow, twisty streets lined with tall, stone buildings. Yet, I managed to stumble upon the sights I planned to visit and many more. Paris, for me, was about the journey of place and time, which allowed me to dabble in the art, architecture and culture of France.

The full account is here: http://winentrip.wordpress.com/perdu-lost-in-paris/. Or, you can just click on "Perdu (lost) in Paris" under Pages, to the left.

I have posted my pictures in a set entitled, "France," on Flickr. This is the link: www.flickr.com/photos/bspicher.