Day 5 - tour de Paris
I should have mentioned this on the first blog entry made in Paris, but I didn't have the time to upload any photos then. If you can read between the lines, you should understand the good news now. Anyway, just click here to view the newly uploaded photos at Multiply.
From left: Qiuping, Grandma, God-mum, God-sis, Mum, Bro, God-pa.
I was the only one who had people sending me off on my trip to Paris. In fact the turnout was considered to be pretty big (7 people in all), and it made me very touched. More souvenirs to buy. Wonder if I have the luggage capacity...
My tour of Paris starts today. We started off with the nearest attraction, which happens to be 15 minutes walking distance away from our apartment - La Défense. The place is a central business district with its modern buildings and skyscrapers, but its history dates back to 1883.
My colleague were wondering what kind of a tourist attraction is the gigantic hollow square structure laying smack in the middle of the city.
La Grande Arche
It is actually the office for the local Ministry of Transport (and some other departments), an art gallery, and a viewing tower rolled into one building. Interesting combination, but the French have a penchant for combining art with everything.
There are artistic statues and structures scattered all over the the region (the same applies to the rest of Paris). Seeing them made me went trigger happy and resulted in about 100 megabytes less space in my laptop harddisk.
And also 100 megabytes more uploads into Multiply.
Since it was our first time wondering around Paris, yan-dao and I decided to make things easier for ourselves and tour the most prominent attractions in Paris - the Eiffel Tower and Arch of Triumph. Both could be spotted from La Grande Arche's roof top.
At the end of the road, somewhere near the centre of the photo, is the Arch of Triumph
Walking around the streets of Paris, we noticed that the architecture of their older buildings were decorated with very intricately carved stones. According to my colleague, who has played a lot of Civilisation 4 (a computer game involving history of modern nations), France was formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire and therefore, the older buildings share similar architectural designs.
I always knew that playing computer games are good in some ways, but some people will never be able to understand that fact. If only I had played as much Civilisation 4...
I was the only one who had people sending me off on my trip to Paris. In fact the turnout was considered to be pretty big (7 people in all), and it made me very touched. More souvenirs to buy. Wonder if I have the luggage capacity...
My tour of Paris starts today. We started off with the nearest attraction, which happens to be 15 minutes walking distance away from our apartment - La Défense. The place is a central business district with its modern buildings and skyscrapers, but its history dates back to 1883.
My colleague were wondering what kind of a tourist attraction is the gigantic hollow square structure laying smack in the middle of the city.
It is actually the office for the local Ministry of Transport (and some other departments), an art gallery, and a viewing tower rolled into one building. Interesting combination, but the French have a penchant for combining art with everything.
There are artistic statues and structures scattered all over the the region (the same applies to the rest of Paris). Seeing them made me went trigger happy and resulted in about 100 megabytes less space in my laptop harddisk.
And also 100 megabytes more uploads into Multiply.
Since it was our first time wondering around Paris, yan-dao and I decided to make things easier for ourselves and tour the most prominent attractions in Paris - the Eiffel Tower and Arch of Triumph. Both could be spotted from La Grande Arche's roof top.
Walking around the streets of Paris, we noticed that the architecture of their older buildings were decorated with very intricately carved stones. According to my colleague, who has played a lot of Civilisation 4 (a computer game involving history of modern nations), France was formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire and therefore, the older buildings share similar architectural designs.
I always knew that playing computer games are good in some ways, but some people will never be able to understand that fact. If only I had played as much Civilisation 4...
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Yo kid. It's never to late to start playing!
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