But this is worth noting: I had breakfast under this structure this morning! I stayed over at a party in the area last night, and stopped off at Monoprix this morning on my way back to the metro for some much-needed juice and pastry products. Where nicer to sit than on the steps of the Grande Arche, with a view over the trajectory which stretches down to the Arc de Triomphe, then onto the Tuileries and the Palais du Louvre? I could see all the way to the Champs Elysées.
La Défense is nothing like the rest of Paris; it's the business district filled with skyscrapers that they placed out of town because hello? Imagine this next to the Marais:
It's really impressive though. On a sunny weekend morning the esplanade feels like a cross between a gated community, full of healthy people wandering between food outlets, and a futuristic metropolis.
And this afternoon I did a treasure hunt in the 20th.
Did you take a picture of said trajectory? I didn't know it existed. By the way, turns out I can actually do this punting thing, which bodes well for the future!
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ReplyDeleteHey Eedes, one place you should go and see while your there "Catacombes de Paris" i here it's calming (as silence reigns) but very eerie and dead spooky ; )
ReplyDeleteWell Uncle Fou I did actually go and see the Catacombs, it was very calming/spooky - you should look through some previous entries and you'll see what I wrote about it!
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