Our summer holiday this year has been amazingly wet! Although it wasn't raining when the plane landed in Beauvais airport, by the time the coach approached our Paris bus station it was pouring. That was in the morning. In the afternoon we headed towards Notre Dame....and had to use the umbrella we'd packed just in case.
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| a small mammoth in the garden of the Natural History museum |
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| Notre Dame and thousands of wet tourists |
Tourists with umbrellas, with plastic ponchos, on open-topped buses getting very wet. Massive puddles.
We were just too late to be able to climb the tower, so we stopped for a cup of coffee. Mistake. NINE EUROS for two coffees!
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| scaffolding disguised as the real building, sponsored by iPhone |
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| Pantheon at the end of the street |
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| View of the courtyard from a window |
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| Venus de Milo |
The Louvre is the old royal palace. It's just amazingly big! We were there for five hours looking at exhibits. As a palace it was very impressive. I was thinking; if Mary, Queen of Scots lived there during her time in France, the Scottish palaces must have been a real let-down!
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