Sean Gillies (Posts about paris)https://sgillies.net/tags/paris.atom2023-12-31T01:26:18ZSean GilliesNikolaParis in a Dayhttps://sgillies.net/2018/08/22/paris-in-a-day.html2018-08-22T14:08:09-06:002018-08-22T14:08:09-06:00Sean Gillies<p>On the 5th day of my fortnight of solo parenting, Bea, Arabelle, and I went all
over Paris. Before lunch we took the metro to the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mnhn.fr/">Muséum national d'Histoire
naturelle</a> and toured its Gallery of Paleontology and
Comparative Anatomy. There are bones, many bones, and organs in jars, including
dissected brains of all kinds. It's enlightening and grotesque, very cool.</p>
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<p>After, we found lunch, and then walked back to our hotel. I had planned the
route very carefully. On every other block I would announce "Hey, look at this:
the old amphitheater of Roman Lutetia (<a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%A8nes_de_Lut%C3%A8ce">Arènes de Lutèce</a>)!" or "An Amorino
gelato shop, what are the odds of that?" or "What a surprise: the Pantheon!"</p>
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<p>After some relaxing and packing we took the metro to Montmartre and climbed up
to the top of the butte to see the touristic mayhem around Sacré Coeur. After
some negotiation we had a nice dinner away from the busy square, did some
souvenir shopping, and then hustled back to the metro and to the Trocadero to
see the Eiffel Tower at sunset, Arabelle's goal for the day, take many selfies
and congratulate each other on "doing Paris" in one day. We watched the tower
sparkle in the twilight and then we took the no. 63 bus back to the Latin
Quarter. This is a great bus route, studded with so many landmarks, and my new
favorite way to get from the 16th arrondisement to the 5th.</p>
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