After a rough night adjusting ( wide awake at 5am, then slept til 3pm) to our new time here in Paris we ventured out to the Musée d’Orsay. Due to our late start, we skimmed through this museum in a couple of hours but we got to see a good portion of it. This museum hosts impressionists like Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. I was overwhelmed from the amount of work hosted here, I can’t imagine how I will feel when visiting the Louvre. The following are the pictures we took at the Museum. After that we went to the Eifflel Tower, a monument that is much more impressive in person than in pictures. But our battery had run out by then. I know, the gods of gadgetry are not smiling on me on this trip.

lilia taking a self portrait

entrance shot (over exposed but what can i do)

me, taking a self portrait (left) and next to my favorite painting (although blurry here)

admiring the ceiling

the ceiling


the most gigantic painting i have ever seen in my life. the thing is, this was one of may in this size.

We’re finally in Paris. And after much debating the PowerBook came with us too. Here I am trying to find our Hotel in the Map. We ended up picking La Manufacture, a little hotel in a very central area surrounded by lots of cafés and bistros and right next to a subway stop.

:-)

Here’s Lilia planning our days in a very efficient way.

I almost look like I am following along :-) but don’t be fooled. Notice that I’m not using my laptop. That’s because I made a huge mistake, I took off the tip off my power adapter right before I left. Yes I know, painful. Surprisingly enough, we where able to watch some Lost episodes, listen to some music and my battery never ran out. I love this 12″.

Our welcome to Paris was a disorientation in the Subway system when our train stopped and started going reverse. It turns out RER B has 4 segments, two on each side of a main junction. But they fail to list that on almost every map we saw. We finally figured it out and moved along. It took us 3 hours to get to our hotel from the airport.

We finally reached our destination, La Manufacture near the Place D’Italie. We didn’t really know what to expect from this hotel but where pleasantly surprised by the hotel and it’s location. I learned about La Manufacture in a book called Hip Hotels: Budget.

The rooms are tiny but very modern and clean.

after a nap, we went out for a bite at a nearby bistro.

then we walked… and walked… and walked.

looking like a tourist is inevitable when u are lost!

after this we went back to out hotel and crashed.