Parisian love - day 2

On our second day in Paris we spent the morning/afternoon in the Louvre. Most people know the Louvre is huge, but my brain still can't comprehend how much history and art you can squeeze into one building. Not that they actually have to squeeze because the building is HUGE. Connor and I spent around 4 hours in there and we barely even saw anything in there. What we did see was the Egyptian section:

There was so many treasures and fascinating things to see that my little head just went numb from it all by the end of the day.
The Roman section:

The roman section we hardly spent any time in at all. Or maybe we did? This is the problem with writing the blog-post 2 weeks after we have been there. Wops. I found the roman part a lot more fascinating than the Egyptian part. That might have something to do with the face that we have all seen Egyptian exhibitions before. I don't really know. I loved all the beautiful statues. Quite embarrassing but I cannot remember the mane of the first statue but the second and third one is Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace

Then we came over to the rooms with all the pained ceilings.  I was truly amazed by those rooms. My neck started to hurt after a while due to me staring up all the time. I took so many pictures of this and I could honestly not choose a favorite one. I was blown away by all of them 

At the end of it all we went to see Mona Lisa, wedding feast at cana, and the young martyr. We were exhausted by this point and went back to the hotel for a nap. 

At night we went Pont des Arts and hung up our love lock. Then we went to a lovely restaurant near Seine and sat there hour hours drinking wine and talking. Before we went home we wandered a bit and took a few late night pictures.

It was all very romantic.

Parisian love - day 1

(actually day one and two, but since we arrived so late on our first day I'm counting our first full day as day number one) I know I promised to post this within a couple of days, but I'm lazy, OK? Good. Glad we got that out of the way and can focus on the task; writing the post about Paris. We went to Paris on the 8th of May/Connor's 21st/our 3 year anniversary. By the time we got to the Hotel it was so late that we just wandered down the street, grabbed some Chinese food and ate it in the hotel. Our Hotel was in the street next to Moulin Rouge and was nice and cosy.

A long and good night sleep in a hotel room that was just a bit too warm later, we wandered up to Sacré-Cœur. We lived in Montmarte so it was only about a 5 minute walk up there. The stairs up to the church is murder on the legs, but the view is oh so worth it. I would really recommend going up there rather than spending time and money on the Eiffel tower. Especially if you're on a budget. 

The metro was close by so we got on it and took it to Notre Dame. We wandered all the way from Notrea Dame to the Eiffel tower. It might not seem like much, but on the way there is so much to see and do that by the time we got to the Eiffel tower we had to sit down and chill for a while. It's hard trying to tell you about all the things we saw and did, simply because there was so much of it. 

At night we went to visit some distant relatives of mine. Claire-Jane and her husband Eric. We had a lovely meal and even got to meet her brother and a lovely little french boy who spoke English with a strong Birmingham accent. The meal was more than lovely actually. It blew me away. At night Claire-Jane and Eric took us for a ride around Paris and showed us a lot more than we would have been able to see without the car. I am so glad I got to know some of my French relatives. I have heard a lot of stories about them, so it was really nice to actually meet them. 

I'll write about the other two and a half days later. Knowing me it might be a week or so until I finally get around to it.

17th of May - Scottish style

After a math exam in the morning I rushed into Stirling and jumped on the train to Edinburgh. Today is the 17th of May; Norway's constitution day! There is a parade in Edinburgh every year and last year I missed it because of placement. I was determined not to miss it this year! Connor came with me in the parade. The parade goes from parliament square to the Norwegian stone in Princes street gardens. The sun was out and I felt really really emotional when we sang the national anthem. When we came home we made a cinnamon cheese cake with the Norwegian flag made out of raspberries, cream and blueberries. All in all a wonderful day. Gratulerer med dagen

Love lock

This is mine and Connor's love lock on Pont des Arts in Paris.
We came home to Scotland yesterday after 3 wonderful days in Paris. I will post a blog post about our French adventure in the next couple of days so stay tuned!