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Impressions of Monet’s Home and Garden

 One early morning, we embarked on an adventure to Giverny to visit Monet’s house and garden. Ive longed to visit the home of Claude Monet since my semester of art history. I wanted to see the place that inspired the founder of French Impressionism. The very term Impressionism was coined from the title of Monet’s…

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Bastille Day in Paris 2014

 A little over a week ago was La Fete national, also known as Bastille Day which commemorates the beginning of the French revolution with the storming of Bastille on july 14 1789 by the Parisian revolutionary. What an incredibly cool day to be in Paris. Parisians as well as tourist crowded every street and square. National…

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My perfect day in Paris

 One of my favorite days in Paris started off at the Rodin Museum, a museum dedicated to the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin agreed to donate all of his work as well as his private collection of work by Van Gogh and Renoir to the state of France under the condition that his former home Villa des…

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Montmartre, Pigalle, and Marais

 Trudging along the old streets of Montmartre, every turn a new stairway leading to places unknown, I find myself submerged by the charm of it all. This is probably one of my favorite arrondissement simply because if colorful and charming mated and had a lovechild the 18th would be it.  Lance and I started our…

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Sainte Chapelle

 My absolute favorite church that Ive been to is Sainte Chapelle, located on Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris. The church isn’t very big nor grand from the outside, but the beauty is all in the details. Its quite interesting really. There are five different colors; red, yellow, green, blue and purple. They first make…

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Arc de Triomphe

 We braved the stairs of the Arc de Triomphe for what is in my opinion, the best view of Paris. Sure the Eiffel Tower offers a fantastic 360 skyline of Paris but the most important landmark, the tower itself, is missing from that view. And a little secret is while there may be a line…

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Versailles: Beauty and Decadence

 Versailles, built as a summer home away from Paris by Louis XVI is the definition of Beauty and Decadence. We took an early train out of Paris to try and beat the crowd but it was in vain. The crowds of people were a spectacle in and of itself. If you are going to Versailles,…

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Walking in Paris

 We spent the morning of our second day in Paris sleeping in so we could be well rested as to better enjoy ourselves. Our first stop was Île de la Cité to visit Notre Dame. From a distant I was wowed but it wasn’t until I got up close and personal with Notre Dame Cathedral that I…

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