Life on the Vine

Aside from visiting the great museums of Paris, we also visited some of the must-see sights of Paris.  This included, of course, the Eiffel Tower, but also the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame and Sacre-Coeur.  Visiting these sights included plenty of walking both the horizontal and vertical kind.  Many of these sights offer great views of the city.  The weather while we were visiting was a bit of a cornucopia so we didn't always have the best of views.  For example, it was raining when we visited Sacre-Coeur so the views weren't the greatest but it had cleared up some by the time we got to the Arc de Triomphe. I guess it's only right to start with the Eiffel Tower.  Its presence is virtually impossible to escape when exploring the city center.  There are elevators at the Eiffel Tower but the lines can be extremely long and it is more expensive.  For a reduced price, you can opt to take the stairs up to the first and second levels, 200 feet ...

My mom and I really had a great visit to Paris.  It was the first visit for both of us.  During our four day visit we went to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, Orsay Museum, the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Versailles, Rodin Museum, Sacre-Coeur, walked the Champs-Elysees, and visited the Holocaust Museum.  We explored mainly on foot but also took the subways, buses and regional train.  I've already done a blog about our first stop on Friday, which was Versailles . This will be a fairly lengthy post but it'll be mostly photos.  I thought I'd share some of the photos from the three museums we visited - Louvre, Orsay and Rodin.  We logged more than 10 miles walking to and through these museums.  Surprisingly no-flash photography is allowed in the Louvre and the Rodin but photography is not allowed in the Orsay.  I wrote down some of the sculptures and paintings I found interesting in the Orsay and was just now able to find most of them on the...