Ireland
Ireland was a blast. I went to Dublin and also to Cork. Dublin was very cosmopolitan, and reminded me of Amsterdam (mainly the river running through the middle of town). Cork is in the South of Ireland, and is a college town, yet is smaller than Dublin. Close to Cork is Blarney, home to Blarney castle and the Blarney stone. I ventured there and kissed the stone. All in all I had a good time and I will put pictures up when my computer is out of the shop.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Paris
Maren had planned to visit me in London on her spring break. One day she emailed saying that since she was coming all the way to London, we might as well go to Paris. So we did. We spent 3.5 days in the city of lights. We did the tourist things (Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Arc d'Triomphe) but our favorite part was just walking around the city, especially through the Latin quarter. We ate good food (even though we had some issues as we didn't know all of the food names in French, yet some restuarants didn't have English menus or speak English... it was an adventure). We tried to speak French (well I did, horribly might I add). We took pictures (once again this was me). It was fun, but made both of us appreciate traveling to countries where we speak the language. The one thing we were most surprised by is that more people didn't try to speak English to us. We had been told that if you try to speak French, and the person detects your poor accent/you speak English, they will start speaking in English. This simply didn't happen with us. I don't know if we just hit all of the lcal hotspot, or what (it wasn't that the people were being mean, as they were all still very nice and friendly). Another surprise was how nice everyone was. And a third was how much Paris resembles Madrid, just more tourism and hence tourists. And its bigger.
Now the pictures!
Arc d'Triomphe
Paris
Maren surveying Paris
Maren and the Eiffel
Clint + crepe = happy
Where am I?
Maren by the Louvre
The Louvre and one of its pyramids
Us in front of Notre Dame
Notre-DAMN!
Polar bear at the Musée d'Orsay
Sacre Coeur
Moulin Rouge... we stayed very close to here
Maren had planned to visit me in London on her spring break. One day she emailed saying that since she was coming all the way to London, we might as well go to Paris. So we did. We spent 3.5 days in the city of lights. We did the tourist things (Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Arc d'Triomphe) but our favorite part was just walking around the city, especially through the Latin quarter. We ate good food (even though we had some issues as we didn't know all of the food names in French, yet some restuarants didn't have English menus or speak English... it was an adventure). We tried to speak French (well I did, horribly might I add). We took pictures (once again this was me). It was fun, but made both of us appreciate traveling to countries where we speak the language. The one thing we were most surprised by is that more people didn't try to speak English to us. We had been told that if you try to speak French, and the person detects your poor accent/you speak English, they will start speaking in English. This simply didn't happen with us. I don't know if we just hit all of the lcal hotspot, or what (it wasn't that the people were being mean, as they were all still very nice and friendly). Another surprise was how nice everyone was. And a third was how much Paris resembles Madrid, just more tourism and hence tourists. And its bigger.
Now the pictures!
Arc d'Triomphe
Paris
Maren surveying Paris
Maren and the Eiffel
Clint + crepe = happy
Where am I?
Maren by the Louvre
The Louvre and one of its pyramids
Us in front of Notre Dame
Notre-DAMN!
Polar bear at the Musée d'Orsay
Sacre Coeur
Moulin Rouge... we stayed very close to here
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