The Paris excursion takes a week for us to understand more about the city. The first day, we mainly used for travel form Lacoste to Paris via Avignon. We rode on the TGV train and took 2.5 hours from Avignon to Paris Gare de Lyon. In the TGV station, there are some highlight photos of the Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013.
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| Gare d'Avignon TGV |
Unfortunately, it was raining when we arrived. After we've settled down at the hotel, we decided to have a walk on the Boulevard Beaumarchais to check out some camera stores. There are equipment in various formats of cameras from 110 to APS and from 135mm to 4x5 view cameras. However, the films are more expensive than in Hong Kong, I didn't but anything at all.
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| Camera Stores on Boulevard Beaumarchais |
We went to the l'Arc de triomphe after dinner at the Hippopotamus steak house. This is a famous triumphal arch built in the 19th century to commemorate the victory of the French revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most famous sculpture is called La Marseillaise, crafted by François Rude.
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| L'arc de triomphe |
On the second day, we went to the La tour Eiffel, Jeu de Paume and Maison européenne de la photographie.
La tour Eiffel is the most iconic architecture of Paris. It was built for the World Fair in 1889 as the entrance of the exhibition. Walking all the way down from the grassland Champs de Mars, there is another small architecture called Mur de la Paix (The wall of peace). Mars is the god of war in Roman mythology. So the wall symbolise the peace from the war place all around the world. The word "peace" in more than 35 languages are on the columns and the glass of the installation.
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| La tour Eiffel and Mur de la Paix |
On the third day, we went to Musee du Louvre, and the Little black dress exhibition in the evening.
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| In front of The Raft of The Medusa |
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| Somewhere in Le Louvre |
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| Le Sortie du Louvre |
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| Rainbow Spectrum under the pyramids |
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| Little Black Dress - Molly leads a guided tour for us |
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