A familiar landmark - La Tour Eiffel
'Ooh-la-la...Pa-ree!' C'est bon la vie en Paris. Personally, I find most Parisians to be contradictory: self-assured yet passive/melancholic, contemporary yet traditional, authentic yet pensive, sweet and bitter... They have much to be proud of - Paris is after all the capital of a national culture that is steeped in a long history of conquests that have contributed abundantly to the world's literature, art, science and modern inventions. Some pics of my weekend sojourn in Paris below:
Above: At the Lourve; for those who recall, the Lourve was a focal point of The Da Vinci Code book/blockbuster
Above: The Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace in the Lourve - a marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory)
Above left: The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci in the Lourve; above right: Venus de Milo in the Lourve
Above: Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787) by Antonio Canova in the Lourve
Above left: An ING Direct Cafe - so cool!; above right: Borat was a hit amongst some of us - here, a poster of Borat in the Paris subway
Basilique du Sacre-Coeur
Arc de Triomphe
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