Been some places
I'm back from my three week spring break. First we spent about 4 days in Rome, then 2-3 in Venice, and finally 8 days in Paris. So it was a long trip and we saw an ungodly amount of famous stuff. You know how you hear about all this big fancy old stuff like the Sistine Chapel and the Louvre and The Colosseum and whatever? Ya we saw all of that in 2 weeks time and they started to blur together. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But pictures help a lot with remembering. Speaking of which. I took about 700 pictures. Yep... not sure if I really want to make (math time, please hold) 12 separate Facebook albums. I haven't really decided what to do with all of the pictures just yet.
OOOok. I'll try not to make this like a gross over-long travel post. Pretty much this is how it goes.
Rome: Really nice weather, nice people, cheap (cheaper than Dublin, anway), walkable and amazing. Rome was my favorite of the cities we spent time in. We made a point of never taking a taxi or metro. And it worked out really well. Most things to do there are free or at least fairly cheap. So it's a good place to go if you're a poor student like us.
Venice: Venice is really pretty, as I'm sure everyone knows. It isn't as picturesque as most of the photos you'll see, but I like that more. It isn't like Disneyland, other than the shopping. The houses and everything are really old and have a lot of character. The streets are so narrow you almost feel like you should be walking sideways, but no one really walked in those areas so it wasn't a problem. So, this might seem obvious. But I never really thought about it too hard. There are no streets. yep... you all knew that, huh? See I thought maybe streets somewhere around there? But nope, it's all walking or taking a boat. It was cool, but I'm glad we only stayed for a couple days.
Paris: We were here the longest and our hostel was the worst of the three. The weather was pretty bad, cold and rainy. But some things were really awesome, mostly the things you're always told to do. The Louvre was intense. We went on the night it was free for people 18-26 so we only had 3 hours, which may seem like a long time. We saw maybe half of what they had to offer in that time. The Pompidou was cool and we got in free there, too. I think I was expecting something else, but what I got was pretty fun. Really, my favorite museum was surprising for me. I liked the Musee D'Orsay the most out of the three we went to. It's supposed to have all the impressionists and everything, which I've never been that huge a fan of. But they had a lot of other stuff. Mostly lots of Degas. I've seen some of his stuff in books and everything, but in real life it was so much better.
I was like hypnotized by this one:
It looks so much worse in the picture. I really couldn't believe it. We got drunk off of wine in front of the Eiffel Tower, so that was amazing. The tower is huge and amazing. Montemarte, where Amelie takes place, was my favorite neighborhood of Paris. It was hilly and old and the Sacre Coure is at the top of it.
So, anyway. I could talk about it forever in this post, but I mostly plan to tell people about all of the people we met and all of the awesome things we did at specific places when I seem them again. So in June, I guess. :)
OOOok. I'll try not to make this like a gross over-long travel post. Pretty much this is how it goes.
Rome: Really nice weather, nice people, cheap (cheaper than Dublin, anway), walkable and amazing. Rome was my favorite of the cities we spent time in. We made a point of never taking a taxi or metro. And it worked out really well. Most things to do there are free or at least fairly cheap. So it's a good place to go if you're a poor student like us.
Venice: Venice is really pretty, as I'm sure everyone knows. It isn't as picturesque as most of the photos you'll see, but I like that more. It isn't like Disneyland, other than the shopping. The houses and everything are really old and have a lot of character. The streets are so narrow you almost feel like you should be walking sideways, but no one really walked in those areas so it wasn't a problem. So, this might seem obvious. But I never really thought about it too hard. There are no streets. yep... you all knew that, huh? See I thought maybe streets somewhere around there? But nope, it's all walking or taking a boat. It was cool, but I'm glad we only stayed for a couple days.
Paris: We were here the longest and our hostel was the worst of the three. The weather was pretty bad, cold and rainy. But some things were really awesome, mostly the things you're always told to do. The Louvre was intense. We went on the night it was free for people 18-26 so we only had 3 hours, which may seem like a long time. We saw maybe half of what they had to offer in that time. The Pompidou was cool and we got in free there, too. I think I was expecting something else, but what I got was pretty fun. Really, my favorite museum was surprising for me. I liked the Musee D'Orsay the most out of the three we went to. It's supposed to have all the impressionists and everything, which I've never been that huge a fan of. But they had a lot of other stuff. Mostly lots of Degas. I've seen some of his stuff in books and everything, but in real life it was so much better.
I was like hypnotized by this one:
It looks so much worse in the picture. I really couldn't believe it. We got drunk off of wine in front of the Eiffel Tower, so that was amazing. The tower is huge and amazing. Montemarte, where Amelie takes place, was my favorite neighborhood of Paris. It was hilly and old and the Sacre Coure is at the top of it.
So, anyway. I could talk about it forever in this post, but I mostly plan to tell people about all of the people we met and all of the awesome things we did at specific places when I seem them again. So in June, I guess. :)