Day Two ~ Down and Out in Paris
Our first stop on Day Two was Montparnasse, where we saw the Tower, the Jardins Atlantiques (Atlantic Gardens) and then headed to the museum we'd come to see.
The Jean Moulin Museum and Memorial to the Liberation of Paris took us a fair while to get around, esppecially as we put our history student caps on and started taking dissertation pictures etc.
The Jean Moulin Museum and Memorial to the Liberation of Paris took us a fair while to get around, esppecially as we put our history student caps on and started taking dissertation pictures etc.
So that's one of my diss pictures on the left and the Montparnasse Tower on the right. So if you thought that the Tower was a good example, here is the picture of the trip: my coursemate Sophia, who had the (mis)fortune to sit next to this man on the Metro.
Actually, it was probably worse for him - look at his face!!
Next up for us was the site of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv. Basically that's where 13,000 Jewish people were rounded up during the war and kept in a velodrome until they were eventually sent to Auschwitz.
After that we walked along the Seine and saw the Eiffel Tower up close. We also went to the Bir Hakiem Bridge to see the memorial
to the famous battle (of the same name) there.
We took a double-decker RER train to Notre Dame after that and also saw the Memorial to Martyrs of the Deportation, very annoyingly, the museum was closed, so I'm having to look it up on the internet and just pretend that I've been there!
We spent a lovely lunchtime sitting on the banks of the Seine, eating very yummy ice cream. I totally forgot that I'd given it up for Lent!!
We ate again that night at Rue Mouffetard and then went on again to Cafe des Arts for drinks. We also met my coursemate Phil's French girlfriend and they invited us out to a club!!
For details of that night, and our last day in Paris, head over to blog 3, which will be up soon!!
Actually, it was probably worse for him - look at his face!!
Next up for us was the site of the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv. Basically that's where 13,000 Jewish people were rounded up during the war and kept in a velodrome until they were eventually sent to Auschwitz.
After that we walked along the Seine and saw the Eiffel Tower up close. We also went to the Bir Hakiem Bridge to see the memorialto the famous battle (of the same name) there.
We took a double-decker RER train to Notre Dame after that and also saw the Memorial to Martyrs of the Deportation, very annoyingly, the museum was closed, so I'm having to look it up on the internet and just pretend that I've been there!
We spent a lovely lunchtime sitting on the banks of the Seine, eating very yummy ice cream. I totally forgot that I'd given it up for Lent!!
Next, we wandered to the Marais, which is the Jewish Quarter of Paris, where there are lots of plaques etc about the Holocaust.
We went to the the Mur des Justes and Musee de la Shoah (Wall of the Righteous Amongst Nations and Holocaust Museum). We also saw a girls school from which all of the pupils had been deported.
We ate again that night at Rue Mouffetard and then went on again to Cafe des Arts for drinks. We also met my coursemate Phil's French girlfriend and they invited us out to a club!!
For details of that night, and our last day in Paris, head over to blog 3, which will be up soon!!
1 comment:
That cactus is even bigger than you described! Poor Cactus Man, all he wanted to do was transport large vegetation around Paris and he gets you lot mocking him. For shame!
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