I was able to get another day in Paris. Unfortunately, it meant an overnight 8 hour bus ride. The bus was full and I had to sit next to one of those people that probably would have felt better in an over-boned wide seats. I wanted to get back to Paris because I didn't get to go to the Louvre my last visit. First, though, I went to Montmartre Cemetery found a couple of blocks west of Sacre Coeur. It has a few famous people buried there including A.M. Ampere (for which the electrical unit Ampere is named after) and Alexandre Dumas (the novelist). This is a picture of Dwarf at the Ampere grave.
It was after the graveyard that I got to the Louvre. I've been to the Louvre once before but I don't remember it having so much security as it did this time around. I spent about four hours there. I obviously saw the big stuff, like the Mona Lisa and The Winged Victory of Samothrace. This is a picture of Dwarf with Venus de Milo.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
October 8th - London
I've been in London for the last few days since getting back from Istanbul. I've stayed a couple of nights in a St.Christopher hostel. Not bad, a little dirty but not as bad as the hostel in Paris. Then I stayed a couple of nights at the YHA at Canada Waters. It was very pleasant. I had my own room for some reason. Besides hanging out at Picadilly, Bond Street, and those common tourist trappy things, I've been trying to find some interesting and trivial things to search out. Such as the Tyburn Tree. Well, it's no longer a tree but a cement sewer cover on the island at the intersections of Edgware Road and Bayswater. (You'll have to cross to the middle of Edware Road to find the spot.) For 30 years from 1196ish Tyburn Tree was where every Monday condemned men and women were hanged. This is a picture of Dwarf next to the cement memorial.
Another interesting thing that I went and checked out was the St. Mary's Hospital. This is the hospital where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Well, it was a pretty nice brick building but other than that there wasn't much else to see. The hospital is near an area were a lot of arabic people are found and it was interesting to see all the men out on the street smoking the shisha again. I tried to buy one but they didn't seem very interested in selling me one.
I also got to go to the most famous Cathedral in the world: Westminster Abbey. This church is amazing! Tons of famous people are buried here, including: a million English Kings and Queens, Charles Dickens, Sir Isaac Newton, and Lawrence Olivier. Visitors aren't allowed to take pictures but because the fee was 10 Pounds I thought it was only right that I should be able to take one or two pics. Here's a picture of the burial spot of Sir Charles Darwin. Finally, I got to see Odette one last time. I stayed with her for my last night in London.
Another interesting thing that I went and checked out was the St. Mary's Hospital. This is the hospital where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Well, it was a pretty nice brick building but other than that there wasn't much else to see. The hospital is near an area were a lot of arabic people are found and it was interesting to see all the men out on the street smoking the shisha again. I tried to buy one but they didn't seem very interested in selling me one.
I also got to go to the most famous Cathedral in the world: Westminster Abbey. This church is amazing! Tons of famous people are buried here, including: a million English Kings and Queens, Charles Dickens, Sir Isaac Newton, and Lawrence Olivier. Visitors aren't allowed to take pictures but because the fee was 10 Pounds I thought it was only right that I should be able to take one or two pics. Here's a picture of the burial spot of Sir Charles Darwin. Finally, I got to see Odette one last time. I stayed with her for my last night in London.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
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