Musings from the Merse
Monday, November 20, 2006
PARIS IN THE WET
What to do on a wet day in Paris. 'Do' Notre Dame and the Pompidou centre. Full m arks to French enterprise-it was not raining when we went into the Cathedral but it was when we exited.A young man approached and thrust umbrellas thrust into our hands and we 5 Euro into his. There is an idea for post Kirk service (no pun intended) in Hutton. The Ile de La Cite is the site of the oldest part of Paris and a plaque outside the West Door of Notre Dame marks Kilo Zero-the point from where all other parts of France are measured from Paris
The Pompidou Centre is also spectacular-its looks as if the building was never finished and the scaffolding still there. Sadly the view from the top was mostly obscured by driving rain-the Eiffel Tower just visible if you like that kind of thing.
Verb Sap. You would need to have a full day to attempt to get round the centre and its 5 galleries and it is 'forbidden' to photograph the exhibits. I did manage a wall image with its joke in two European languages.
Our return to Saint Germaine en Laye was delayed by the fact that someone had moved the Metro station from which he had emerged three hours before. I had carefully marked it on our Map but when we returned it had vanished. Three enquiries and three conflicting directions (and meaningless pointing) later we found another entrance to Chatelet des Halles. Metro signs are insignificant and look disconcertingly like MacDonalds.
Ah well we can now return to the Merse with some culture under our belts.
What to do on a wet day in Paris. 'Do' Notre Dame and the Pompidou centre. Full m arks to French enterprise-it was not raining when we went into the Cathedral but it was when we exited.A young man approached and thrust umbrellas thrust into our hands and we 5 Euro into his. There is an idea for post Kirk service (no pun intended) in Hutton. The Ile de La Cite is the site of the oldest part of Paris and a plaque outside the West Door of Notre Dame marks Kilo Zero-the point from where all other parts of France are measured from Paris
The Pompidou Centre is also spectacular-its looks as if the building was never finished and the scaffolding still there. Sadly the view from the top was mostly obscured by driving rain-the Eiffel Tower just visible if you like that kind of thing.
Verb Sap. You would need to have a full day to attempt to get round the centre and its 5 galleries and it is 'forbidden' to photograph the exhibits. I did manage a wall image with its joke in two European languages.
Our return to Saint Germaine en Laye was delayed by the fact that someone had moved the Metro station from which he had emerged three hours before. I had carefully marked it on our Map but when we returned it had vanished. Three enquiries and three conflicting directions (and meaningless pointing) later we found another entrance to Chatelet des Halles. Metro signs are insignificant and look disconcertingly like MacDonalds.
Ah well we can now return to the Merse with some culture under our belts.
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