Paris: Day 5

Our final day in Paris wasn't to long, we had just enough time to see one final site and then we had to head off to the train station to come back to London since I had class the next day.

We got up early enough to pack up all of our things, get ready for a half day out, eat breakfast, check out of our room, and store out bags at the hotel.  Once all of that was done, we took the metro to the Musee d'Orsay.

Since the Musee d'Orsay opened at 9:30, and we made really good time getting through the Metro, we had about 45 minutes to walk a few block.  So we took our time, window shopped and walked through the Tuileries Garden which is situated between the end of the Champs Elysee and the Louvre.

View of the Luxor Obelisk at the end of the Champs Elysee.

Seine River

There were thousands of locks on the bridge, each with a couples name on them.  The sentiment is similar to visitors writing their names on dried gum on that is placed on the wall of Juliet's balcony, except much more sanitary.

View of the Musee d'Orsay from a bridge crossing the river.  The building is a converted train station, but the layout inside keep the open train station feel.  It houses the largest collection of impressionist works in the world by Monet, Manet, Renior, Degas, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.  We had a couple of specific works that we were looking for, Van Gogh's self portrait and Renior's Moulin de la Gaulette, inspired by our dinner two nights before.  Photography wasn't allowed inside, however the thing I wish I could have photographed was the architecture inside the building, not necessarily the priceless art around me.

Dad while we waited in line for the doors to open.

Once we were finished in the Musee d'Orsay we headed back to the hotel to pick up our bags and head to the train station.  We again took the Eurostar under the English Channel.

The was the view for two and half hours, except for the twenty or thirty minutes under the English Channel, which Dad and I were both, not surprisingly, asleep for.

We arrived, and while we were back "home" we still had a good amount of running around to do in order to get Dad settled in and myself ready for class the next day.  So we jumped on the tube, walked up to my room to get Dad's bag, and drop off mine.  Then we walked back down to the tube station, and then past it several blocks to get to his hotel for the rest of his trip. Then finally we sat down and once we realized that we were both starving and slowly fading we went to a pub we had passed by on the way.  I'd never been there but dinner was delicious and I introduced day to cider, he greatly enjoyed his.  He got a standard apple cider and I tried a strawberry cider.

Seabass, shrimp, and bacon with new potatoes, grilled tomatoes and string beans.

It may have been how hungry we were but we both devoured our dinners in silence, then agreed that all we wanted to do was sleep so we split and agreed to meet up the next day after my class.