day two in paris

Oct 1, 2007

[Gloomy autumn day in Paris]
You always tell yourself that when you get to Paris, you’ll spend the first full day there checking out the Louvre. Instead you end up holed up in your hotel room, surfing Facebook. Plus ca change…

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peter

17 years ago

if you are in paris I think watching Hotel Chevalier is highly appropiate.. great little short from wes anderson.. it’s free from itunes(US) http://www.hotelchevalier.com/
let me know if you can’t access itunes US..

jmdesp

17 years ago

You’ll just have to tell everybody back home that the Louvre was on strike, that’s why you couldn’t visit 😉

Kimber

17 years ago

The Louvre.
Future home of a gaping void business card.
(I suggest reserving the spot next to the Mona Lisa, lots of walk by traffic, as with any real estate, its about location, location, location).
Does this mean our cartoons will be en francais this week?

Igor Carron

17 years ago

Not today. However, the Louvres is closed on Tuesdays.
Igor.

B.L Ochman

17 years ago

I tell myself I will visit the wonderful little Picasso Museum, and then I go there. Facebook will be there when you get back.

latinbombshell

17 years ago

Mon dieu, Hugh. Step away from that computer tout de suite!

Eric

17 years ago

I must say, checking facebook from a Paris hotel has a certain allure.

Bertil

17 years ago

Peter: he probably can’t log in as a US user unless he uses a proxy for his entire connexion (hotel wifi not gonna like that).
Igor: he’s probably at one of the rare hotels who advertise properly abroad. . .
JMDesp: Simpler, just have to say he didn’t feel like it on Monday, and it was closed on Tuesdays (hey!) — then the rest of the week was too busy to go.
Oh: and the Louvre is over-rated, and over-crowded (I can send you a live feed of the queue: those people won’t stop standing there for anything. . .) If you are into classical stuff, go to this one instead:
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/en/jacquemart/
Otherwise, you’ll have to tell me if you prefer modern or contemporary. . .

Valeria Maltoni

17 years ago

… plus c’est la même chose. Applicable to business, etc.

Basil White

17 years ago

I could have sworn this was the north side of Dupont Circle in DC.

Laura

17 years ago

That’s what a gloomy day in Paris is for…holing yourself up in a hotel room for a few hours and rolling around in some delicious Gallic melancholia.
Try Julie Doiron’s “Tu Es Malades” and “Ce Charmant Coeur” for a soundtrack. It’ll drive you to drink – in a good way.

Badger Gravling

17 years ago

Is it sad that my favourite part of the Louvre is probably the lift in the main entrance hall?
Although I must admit, I do enjoy the Goya drawings out of the ‘proper’ art… Moreso than my work colleague, who waited until we’d paid and gone into the first exhibit to say he doesn’t like ‘classical art’….

Makina

17 years ago

nice shot..

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