1100am-
Bonjour,
Hello everyone! How are things at home? I’m currently in the TGV (High -speed train) heading towards Lyon. It will take about two hours to get there, so here I am!
Haha, I arrived in Paris on 2nd January at around 1300h., but only arrived at the hotel at around 1700. Pourquoi? It was very difficult to find our way around because there weren’t many signs and Paris, being such an old city was rather chaotic. The first thing that struck me while I was on my way to the hotel was the stark bareness of the city. It sounds lame, but the landscape of Paris is very different from Singapore because there aren’t leaves. Everywhere! Just imagine Singapore without leaves. You get the idea? That’s the weird feeling that you will get. However, the city itself was a pretty sight. Old fashioned buildings lay around untidily, cobbled stone pavements juxtaposing with women in long coats walking their dogs (Very amusing!) When you are along the Seine river, the sight is even prettier. You have the Musee du Louvre, Musee d’orsay, Palais Royal, Eiffel Tower on the banks of the river.很有味道.
La cathedrale the Notre Dame
It was good, it was good. Very gothic and in a very beautiful way.
Musee D’Orsay
I wanted to go to the Musee du Louvre but there wasn’t enough time. Musee D’Orsay mainly exhibits Impressionist paintings and some post and pre Impressionist paintings. Thanks to the Art in the age of colonialism course that I took last semester, I knew a few of the painters that had their works exhibited there. Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Matisse, Renoir, Ingres, Degas, Delacroix, Whistler, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin…It definitely made things more interesting. For once, I knew a little about their art, their style of painting, their reasons, the external influences etc. Yay! I love going to museums.
Here I am at the metro station..on my way to the hotel...
Outside my room at the hotel. There's a little pretty garden outside. Very cosy. And yes, I did slept on a double bed with that guy. faint. Did I mention that their breakfast was superb? Try this. baguette with butter and strawberry jam. Yum Yum...
the roads of Paris...no leaves...very bare.....
La cathedrale de Notre-Dame. Isn't it very gothic?
Inside the cathedrale...
Across the Seine River...
Inside Mussee d'orsay
Lorshit..Look at this..! Familiar...? Matisse's work!
This came out for my Art in the age of colonialism exam!! And the painting is very very big...
The tower is indeed very very pretty.
Okay..the pills are making me drowsy again..
Muaks
Fatlady