PARIS : 2nd-5th March 2003
France wasn't a scheduled holiday destination for us, but a short stopover enroute to Tunisia. Our Air France flight from Kuala Lumpur transitted in Paris so we took the opportunity to break our journey there for 4 nights - just long enough to give us a feel of France.
Our quick tour of Paris started at 6:30 am when we arrived in the city on a very cold spring day in March. Not wasting another minute, we dumped our bags at the hotel lobby as we couldn't check-in yet, and set off on our
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Early Spring in France As we flew over France, something told me that it was still going to be very...
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Paint Palettes of France As we headed back towards earth, the colours of France began to emerge. Farm...
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Charles De Gaulle Airport Our first contact with Paris. The copious amounts of glass & metal...
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The Metro The Metro or Metropolitain - a lifeline for many who live and work in Paris,...
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Art Nouveau Entrance To The Metro Newspaper vendors wait in the front of this art nouveau entrance,...
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Hotel Des Invalides A beautiful spring day in Paris was not to be the first day we were there. It...
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Courtyard of Hotel Des Invalides Hotel Des Invalides was founded by Louise XIV in 1670 to house wounded and...
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Mystery Woman, Hotel Des Invalides Although I imagine that pain & suffering of wounded soldiers would have...
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Eiffel Tower I had my first glimpse of Eiffel Tower from the gardens of Hotel des...
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Musee de L'Armee Hotel Des Invalides houses one of the world's most notable...
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Spare Parts, Musee de L'Armee How handy! Or maybe their bodies went missing in action.
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Eglise Du Dome Also known as The Dome Church in English, this church was added later between...
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Napoleon's Victories Live On in Stone In the 19th century, Eglise Du Dome became the burial place of Napoleon. The...
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Napoleon's Tomb Napoleon's ashes are placed in a series of six coffins, one inside...
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Musee D'Orsay Musee D'Orsay is in itself a museum piece that has a very interesting...
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Herakles Archer at Musee D'Orsay This sculpture (Hercules the Bowman) by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle dated 1909 is...
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When Will The Suffering End? Never, it seems for Ugolin, immortalized here in bronze by Jean-Baptiste...
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Looking Ahead Of Time A couple looks through the glass face of this giant clock at the...
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Walking Above Paris One of the weirdest experiences at Musee D'Orsay is walking on...
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The Pyramids of the Louvre The Louvre is one of the great attractions of Paris. However it did...
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The Louvre's Number-One Attraction The Louvre that we see today is a culmination of centuries of change that...
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The Apex The blue sky which I saw for the first time since arriving in Paris no doubt...
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Vestiges of a Medieval Fortress, Louvre Parts of the foundations of a 13th century fortress, which is the...
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Big Impressions The Louvre has an amazingly huge collection of paintings. Some of them are so...
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The Louvre's No.1 Attraction This is certainly the most unflattering way to see the Louvre's No.1...
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