Friday, September 29, 2006

Friday Trip Blogging

Day 5 - Louvre, Carnavalet, Picasso, Pompidou Museums and Champs Elysees walk

Winged Victory sculpture. I love this statue. It's really impressive in person.
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Venus de Milo's butt crack.
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Michelangelo's homoerotic slave sculpture.
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Some shots from the Louvre's ancient Egypt section.
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Couldn't take pictures in the Carnavalet museum, but it was pretty cool. Lots of French history.

Some examples of Picasso's genius/madness/pranksterism. I still haven't decided which of those three he was more.
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The funky fountain outside the Pompidou Modern Art museum. We were tired and not very enthusiastic about the art inside, so we didn't go in.
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Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, site of many beheadings during the French Revolution (but the Obelisk wasn't there yet during the Revolution).
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Looking down the line made by the Obelisk, Arc de Triomphe, and La Grande Arche de la Defense.
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This was our last day in Paris. I'll start London on Monday.