an analysis of Louvre art (with pictures)

Thematic trends of the Louvre:

Pointing
He went that way.
No, over that way.
He ran up. Straight up.*note: pointing no longer visible.

People shot through with arrows (and looking unimpressed)

Arrows? How passe!Honestly, more arrows?*Yawn* Let me know when you've finished with the whole arrows thing?

Egyptian Rulers
apologies for the upcoming pun...

Also of note:
This sculpture of Athena(?) depicts the goddess of the hunt with two classic objects of a hunt:
The Deer

and the remote controlAlso, there's a zombie monk...

The End
Fin

Yay! Photos!

Today is our final day in Paris. We're currently at the train station and we're going to be jumping on a train to Munich in just under an hour.

I think this photo sums up our Paris experience quite nicely. It's all about the crepes.

Since my last post we've done a whole bunch of touristy stuff. My favourites were the Pompidou Centre and the cemetary in Montmartre.

I think Dan's favourite moment may have been at the fromager! We walked away with one very stinky cheese and one that is not stinky at all.

Apart from that we've seen the Louvre, the Moulin Rouge and Notre Dame.

We also experienced our first scam, exeuted professionally by a couple of guys from Senegal at Sacre Coeur. We've survived just fine, but now have two friendship bands instead of 10 Euro.

We've decided against visiting the Eiffel Tower, although we have seen it from a distance. Instead we shall remember Paris in our own way... mostly for the crepes.

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Bonjour!

We've made it into Paris safe and sound.

Let me pick up where we left off last time...

The rest of Abu Dhabi airport was fascinating. They were really into large candy. There were chuppa chups the size of my head, massive mentos - and giant tubs of Tang lining the walls of the Duty Free shops!

Our plane was delayed by 2 hours by intense and creepy fog, so we showed up in Paris around 9 am. Then we took an hour-long bus ride from the airport into Paris-Opera where we are staying. Obviously our room wasn't ready, so we stashed our bags and headed out for a wander.

We had our first awkard language moment upon trying to order our meal, but our communication skills have since improved (somewhat) allowing me to shop successfully! But, I'm still deperately trying to produce those glottal sounds from my 'r's.

Our long wander ended up taking us by foot to Notre Dame and for a peek at the outside of the Louvre. We'll probably head back that way tomorrow with our cameras (we didn't have them at first because it was almost impossible to get our luggage sorted!)

The hotel room is pretty tiny, but it has everything we need (incuding a bath - woo hoo!)... and... wait for it... French doors!

The only annyoying thing about the hotel is that they seem to be destroying the place inside out, chiselling away at the roof noisily.

Thanks for listening - I'm going to go back to being jet lagged. I might try to get some uni work done without any of the daytime distractions... like the awesomeness of Paris.