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July 09, 2006
Paris - Day 5
A semi-full day since I had a late start this morning. A few people that I hang out with were leaving the hostel yesterday and this morning, some goodbyes were said and and pushed my start to late morning. I still managed to fit in two major sights today, first is the Panthéon then Musee d'Orsay. I love the Panthéon, the building is very beautiful and more importantly the crypt contains a few worthy men/women. I visited the crypt of Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, Louis Braille and several others. However the most popular of them all is Marie Curie. People left flowers, metro tickets, notes, personal items to thank Marie Curie as the source of their inspiration. I saw notes from all over the worlds, Japan, Korea, China, I was going to leave an Indonesian note only to realise that I had left my notebook in the hostel.
Musee d'Orsay is famous for the its impressionists and post-impressionists collection. I spent my afternoon admiring the works of Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh and several other really famous artists that I've never heard about. Lacking art knowledge, I didn't bother to rent the audioguide which would have set my back EUR5.
I visited two English bookshops today to find travel guidebook for Spain with no luck, hopefully there will be some in Lyon or cities closer to Spain. The bookshop that apparently have LP guidebook does not open on Sunday argggh, in fact half of Paris doesn't open on Sunday!
One last note, the final is on tonight a lot of people from the hostel went to Champs Elysee to join the crowd, I'd really want to go but I rolled my right ankle .... again! I just had an accident last month in front of Angkor Wat, I couldn't believe my luck and my inability to walk properly.
Posted by vhadiant at July 9, 2006 07:00 PM
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