Perusing Paris: Part 2

Saturday, we hit the streets again for some more sightseeing. First on our list was the Arc of Triumph, a huge arc decorated with carvings and dedicated to those who fought in French wars. I found that I could read some of the French because of its simmilarity to Spanish, but I still missed a lot of what was written.

Next; we got a look at the Eiffel Tower in the daytime while heading toward a market that is open twice a week and sells a variety of French foods that we could try.We took our findings to a park where we settled in for a relaxing lunch. Here, a French woman said "bona petite" as she walked by, adding something more to our French experience.

We spent some of the afternoon in the apartment of two Americans  with whom one of our friends from another Sevilla program was staying for the weekend. They were nice enough to invite us in for some drinks while helping us plan out the rest of our day in Paris. It was nice having someone who knew the city, knowing we would no longer have to guess about where to go next.

Later, we went to a statue garden that I believe was once someone's very fancy backyard. The most famous statue here was "The Thinker," of which there are actually a few copies in the world, but this was the first one cast and therefore the coolest.

The next day, the guys and girls seperated and us guys went to another art museum, the Orsay. Unfortunately, we were not able to take pictures here, but I  suppose art mueseums are not the best place for this anyways since the art is always better in real life. There were several works from Van Gogh and Monet, some of which I had just seen in their travel to Chicago a year before. I am just following them all around I guess. 

The museum was our final destination in Paris, so after this we walked to the train station for our next, and very different, part of our travels in France: the peaceful countryside of Grenoble.