Brass monkeys ahoy!

[lyore]

It was 2 degrees today. Bloody freezing. Went to the Arc de Triumph (but not up the top - I'm saving that for an evening, hopefully a slightly warmer one), and then wandered down the Champs Elysees, where I picked up a French stalker, who followed me around for a while, said I was 'very, very beautiful' and thought I was Spanish. This is the second person so far who's thought I was Spanish - really not understanding that, unless my French has some kinda Spanish accent or something.

Anyway, after I got rid of my stalker, I ended up at Les Hospitales. Didn't go into the museum, just wandered around, and took a lot of pictures, until impending frostbite made me put my gloves back on. There was some sort of ceremony going on when I got there - people lined up with flags, and then other people walked through the middle of the flag people after shaking hands with some religious-type people. Yeah, you can see I had no idea what was going on - I hadn't really planned on ending up there today, so I hadn't read up on the place at all. I'm not sure if it was a regular thing, or a special occasion, but given they had called out half the French armed forces for event, I think it was probably a one off.

And speaking of photos, I'm up to something like 400 so far... there will be a mass photo dump when I get back and have had a chance to cull those unworthy of saving.

Have I mentioned that you can see EuroDisney from my hotel? That's kinda cool. The hotel also only has two english channels, BBC world and Eurosport. In the last few days, I have learnt more out curling than I ever wanted to know.

Tomorrow I'm planning on going to La Defense, and then I plan on spending the rest of the week hitting the museums, as well as going back to Notre Dame and heading over to Montmartre. Might be a while until the next update, depending on the availability of Internet.

I need a 'cold' icon.

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[amethyste5.livejournal.com]

Try the French channels early in the morning or about the time school lets out, that's how I stumbled into an episode of Sailor Moon in French well before it came to America. (And some strange show called Peter Pan in Italy, at least, I assume that was the name, those were the only words I understood...)