In the final entry in our three part series entitled Museum Madness, we explore the Palace of Versailles (sort of) as well as the culturally diverse museum Quai Branly. I’d heard of Rick Steves’ free mp3 tours awhile back but completely forgot about them until right before Paris. I was stoked to find that two…
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Where the Magic Happens
Where the Magic Happens Is there anything more magical than being in Disneyland on your birthday? At any age, I contend there’s not. We had just finished with a wonderful six days of touring Paris and decided to use one of our free nights from hotels.com to stay on the Disney resort at the Santa…
Museum Madness Part 2 – A&M, l’Orangerie, Pompidou
Side note: just testing a new layout/theme for the website. Let us know what you think either way– we’ll probably be experimenting for a while. On the advice of a friend, we sought out the Musee des Arts & Metiers and Pascal’s Arithmetic machine. Luckily, the museum was covered by the Paris Museum Pass, and…
Museum Madness Part 1 – Louvre and Orsay
Side note: just testing a new layout/theme for the website. Let us know what you think either way– we’ll probably be experimenting for a while. Paris really is a beautiful city– from what little I remember from being above ground and outside. As Charity likes to remind me, we spent most of our time either…
The Parisien Biggies
The Parisien Biggies Eiffel Tower, River Seine Cruise, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Sacre Couer, Latin Quarter On our very first night in Paris, I dragged Maylene immediately off to the Eiffel Tower and we arrived at dusk, staying long enough to watch the sun set from the middle viewing level of the tower. It…