High-Class Hobo Goes on a Scavanger Hunt
This entry was posted on 4/17/2007 4:44 PM and is filed under Paris.
Our good friend Jamie Davis has been known as the "high-class hobo." Well, it seems, Jamie thinks I deserve the same title.
So be it.
I bought a four-day museum pass for 45 euros. Gets you into any one of about 40 museums and monuments in and around Paris. Many of the good ones -- the Louvre, the Picasso, Notre Dame -- but not all of them. You can't go to the top of the Eiffel Tower on the pass.
So, for the next four days, I'll be posting very short items about each of the places I visit. One line of text to go with one photo. Plus, the price I would have paid if I paid each ticket seperately. I'll also give the time I visited and the length of time I stayed.
Day One
10 a.m. Towers of Notre Dame. 45 minutes. 7.50 euros -- The cathedral itself. 20 minutes. Free.
It's either smog or haze but from up here, you can barely see the Eiffel Tower and its probably only a couple of miles away.
11:30 a.m. Musee d'Orsay. 90 minutes. 7.50 euro.
The art was cool, a mix of a little of everything over the past 200 years; the building was amazing, an old train station that upstages the art at times; and the crowds were annoying, I really don't like student groups.
3 p.m. Pantheon. 45 minutes. 5.50 euros.
Big imposing building rising from the left bank that's used as a crypt for really, really important people -- lots of room left in the tombs below -- also where Leon Foucault constructed his pendulum to show the earth rotated.
Total time spent in cultural places: 3 hours, 20 minutes.
Amount I would have spent if I bought each ticket individually: 20.50 euros.
