Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Le Bateau Ivre
Un homme âgé peint avec soin les mots d'un poème du 19ème siècle sur le mur de la rue Férou.
Photos courtesy of Allison Hiss, French Language Masters candidate at the University of Alabama //
Taken in the Latin Quarter of Paris, Summer 2012
Bonne Fête Nationale
Today is Bastille Day, or in French: la fête nationale (not le jour de Bastille, as I once thought). In honor of this national holiday, voilà quelques photos de mes visites à Paris.
The Louvre: home of the La Jaconde, the surprisingly petite painting by da Vinci that we know as the Mona Lisa. She seems even tinier amidst the massive crowds that gather in front of her.
I visited twice, in March and in May of 2010. See what a difference two months of beautiful springtime made in my view of the Île de la Cité from the Pont du Carrousel? (below)
Stained glass at La Sainte-Chappelle, on the Île de la Cité.
After wandering through the 7th arrondissement in search of la Tour Eiffel, the iconic monument appeared suddenly above the buildings.
My Favorite Museums
Well, it's been almost four weeks since I completed my internship in Pitt's Study Abroad Office, and I really honestly miss the place, the people, everything about working there. There are few places where it's not only possible, but acceptable to spend an afternoon discussing, debating, and ranking the best museums in the world. In consideration of things like diversity and coherence of the collection, food, manageability and location, here are the museums that I advocated for:
Art museums like the Uffizi in Florence and the Louvre in Paris are indisputably some of the best in the world - yet for someone like me, who appreciates art but can't necessarily ingest/comprehend such enormous collections, they're just not manageable.
On the other hand, some of the museums that I have visited have been randomly fun and interesting but a bit too specific to make my list: these would be museums like the Museum of Childhood in London or the Museum of Hash, Marijuana, and Hemp in Amsterdam.
Obviously there were many diverse museums to visit when I was living in London: the Freud Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate Modern and the National Gallery. In Provence curiosity pulled me into the Museum of Natural Science in Aix-en-Provence and even the Camargue Rice Museum. And because Pitt subsidizes the arts in Pittsburgh, students have free admission to all sorts of interesting museums - the Carnegie Museums, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory...
But at the end of the day, my Top 5 are untouched by any of the museums that I have seen (so far). My coworkers gave me some recommendations that they hope will challenge my Top 5. Their favorites are the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the National Portraiture Gallery in Washington, DC and the Museo de la Memoria in Rosario, Argentina (a museum of political dictatorship and the dirty war). We'll just see about that! And hopefully soon, I feel that travel bug itching to have its way...
Dylan's TOP 5 Museums
- Leopold Museum in Vienna
- Philadelphia Art Museum
- Imperial War Museum in London
- Museu Nacional de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City
At the Tate Modern during my first trip to London
Honorable Mention:Art museums like the Uffizi in Florence and the Louvre in Paris are indisputably some of the best in the world - yet for someone like me, who appreciates art but can't necessarily ingest/comprehend such enormous collections, they're just not manageable.
On the other hand, some of the museums that I have visited have been randomly fun and interesting but a bit too specific to make my list: these would be museums like the Museum of Childhood in London or the Museum of Hash, Marijuana, and Hemp in Amsterdam.
The museum that was the most unexpected success for me was the National Gallery at Veletrzni Palace in Prague. I'd definitely like to throw an honorable mention their way.
Obviously there were many diverse museums to visit when I was living in London: the Freud Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate Modern and the National Gallery. In Provence curiosity pulled me into the Museum of Natural Science in Aix-en-Provence and even the Camargue Rice Museum. And because Pitt subsidizes the arts in Pittsburgh, students have free admission to all sorts of interesting museums - the Carnegie Museums, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory...
But at the end of the day, my Top 5 are untouched by any of the museums that I have seen (so far). My coworkers gave me some recommendations that they hope will challenge my Top 5. Their favorites are the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the National Portraiture Gallery in Washington, DC and the Museo de la Memoria in Rosario, Argentina (a museum of political dictatorship and the dirty war). We'll just see about that! And hopefully soon, I feel that travel bug itching to have its way...
Berthillon on Île Saint-Louis
This is a flashback to a sunny afternoon in Paris and the refreshingness of lime sorbet, cold and tart.
Strawberry and lime sorbet from Berthillon
This photo is from a wonderful warm trip to Paris in May of 2010 with my close friend Marc. The City of Lights in late spring cast its spell, and by the end of our first full day we were carefree and happy. In the evening we had desert for dinner - a nutella banane crêpe for Marc and sorbet from Berthillon on the Île Saint-Louis for me.
With Marc in Montmartre
I wish it were warm enough for sorbet, but after that heat spell where it was 75 degrees every day in March, the temperature has cooled down quite a bit in the 'Burgh. High today of only 48! I'm also longing for those carefree days - according to the Pitt News, which counts bomb threats by building (even when they come in sets of 3 or 4, which I have been counting as one threat), the total is 57.
All of these numbers are making my head hurt, it's off to Political Philosophy class for me. Yes, I prefer Thomas Hobbes and John Locke to counting to fifty-seven. Just between you and me.
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