I am having a wonderful time in Paris seeing everything the city has to offer (not literally because this is a Gigantic city on the same level of scale as New York or Chicago and it has hundreds of years of history).
As an example of how busy but how interesting my time is right now, see the following quickly typed itinerary of what I did today on Easter Sunday:
Started out waking up and getting breakfast at the hostel.
Then had a bunch of walking to do because metro line 7 was partially closed for Easter
Saw the Notre Dame but before Mass started went to Sainte-Chapelle (crown of thorns church), and viewed the amazing stained glass windows. It was built in only 6 years!
Open air market with birds and flowers
Notre Dame grounds and then looking through the offerings of individual's shops along the river Seine
Notre Dame Easter Mass
La Conciergerie, the prison that held Marie Antoinette before her beheading
Then authentic french lunch and pastries along the river
The Louvre (Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, works from Raphael, De Vinci, and many many others)
Musée d'Orsay (impressionist paintings from Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, etc.)
Metro to the Mount of Martyrs
Awesome smoothie made of nothing but actual fruit
Walk up to the church at the top of the hill, the highest point in Paris
Enjoyed the great original artwork there, on sale by people painting
Enjoyed the spontaneous music performance on the steps of the church Sacré Cœur with the great view of the whole city.
Walked down some famous steps to a famous intersection and ate at that corner at an authentic French restaurant. I had duck accompanied by french wine and it was awesome.
Walked down the mount and took the metro to the Arc de Triomphe and climbed to the top so, as night had fallen, we could look out from the roof onto the Avenue des Champs-Élysées back towards Notre Dame with all the cars' headlights and taillights and many pedestrians. Also saw the rest of the city again from a high perspective, as we did from the Eiffel Tower, and it was beautiful yet again.
After we came down we walked the entire Champs-Élysées to the Egyptian Obelisk and then headed back to the hostel.
Another very full day in the awesome city of Paris.
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