Paris and Luxembourg
Pictures for Paris and Luxembourg are both up at http://photos.yahoo.com/d.provost
I don't have much to say about Paris. It was nice being back for the first time since I lived there in the 8th grade. I don't think anyone else had been there so we hit up the main stuff, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triumphe, Notre Dame, etc. I enjoyed going to the Musee d'Orcy, a museum containing mostly impressionist works. I know for sure that I appreciate museums much more now than I did back then. We also went to a concert opera in the Opera House. This is basically an opera, but it isn't acted out, just sang, and the orchestra is behind them. It was a pretty cool experience but also fairly boring.
After being in Germany for a week, some of decided to hit up Luxembourg for our first travel trip with our Eurails. Since it's pretty small and contained we just made it a day trip. I enjoyed it, and a day was definately enough time to spend there. It was a nice place to walk around in without any specific sites to see. We stopped at a cafe to get some coffee (it was pretty cold out) and the shopkeep found out we were from Texas, and kept making gun noises and shooting us with his finger gun, like a cowboy. He was a spirited chap.
Sorry these are pretty brief, maybe the pictures will tell a better story. I should start writing these closer to when they happen.
I don't have much to say about Paris. It was nice being back for the first time since I lived there in the 8th grade. I don't think anyone else had been there so we hit up the main stuff, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triumphe, Notre Dame, etc. I enjoyed going to the Musee d'Orcy, a museum containing mostly impressionist works. I know for sure that I appreciate museums much more now than I did back then. We also went to a concert opera in the Opera House. This is basically an opera, but it isn't acted out, just sang, and the orchestra is behind them. It was a pretty cool experience but also fairly boring.
After being in Germany for a week, some of decided to hit up Luxembourg for our first travel trip with our Eurails. Since it's pretty small and contained we just made it a day trip. I enjoyed it, and a day was definately enough time to spend there. It was a nice place to walk around in without any specific sites to see. We stopped at a cafe to get some coffee (it was pretty cold out) and the shopkeep found out we were from Texas, and kept making gun noises and shooting us with his finger gun, like a cowboy. He was a spirited chap.
Sorry these are pretty brief, maybe the pictures will tell a better story. I should start writing these closer to when they happen.
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