France

[ June, 2013 ] This time in Paris I could not enjoy shopping, so I went to a park and sat to watch people. This is the famous Tuileries Garden. This was created originally as…

[ June 2013 ] In France, the state decides the days of sales. This time I went to Paris on the day before the sale started. Just a few days before I left, I leaned…

[ June, 2013 ] I went to Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris for the first time. In my guide book, it says that there are works of Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani and so…

[ June, 2013 ] This is a cafe in Paris near Opera de Paris Garnier. There was a notice outiside saying ‘We speak Russian’ and surely they were taking orders from the Russian tourists who…

[July 2012] My visit to Paris was in the middle of summer sale. I went to other department stores, but  in the end came back to Galeries Lafayette. Here it is always full of activities….

[July 2012] It was early July when I went to Paris. It was the peak time for summer sale. It was even more exciting because the euro was low. I had some muscle ache for…

[July, 2012] At last we went all the way up to the top of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame. I felt as if I did one year worth of exercise. Apparently there are 387 steps. The number of…

[July, 2012] This time, we decided to go up the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Of course there was a long queue. we had to wait for 40-50 minutes. During that time, a few street performers…

[March 2012] On Monmartre, we asked one of the painters to draw us. When you go up the hill, after Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, there are a lot of ‘painters’ for tourists. They may have a hard…