Monday, 12 April 2004
Paris 3 - Notre Dame
That night I hung out with Daya at her hood in Saint Michele (which is cheaper Paris with tons of cool restaurants, a student's dream) and tried french crepes (like huge pancakes)with my FAV Nutella and bananas, made by Daya´s hot frenchman John Pierre (that really is his name)! We saw a movie in the making (Paris is just like LA) on our way to Daya´s hangout bar, and I got to have lemonade, which I really really missed, and a gyro! We kept missing our metro stop because we were so distracted talking, and once we had to leave the metro and catch another one cuz this french guy kept bugging us. We also saw this guy peeing off the very top of the balcony of this like 7 story building, who waved at us after he was done! I saw this like 5 story Louis Vuitton bag, and tons of crazy French styles, maybe weirder than the Spanish styles (both are stuck in the 80´s, maybe in 10 years they´ll get to the 90´s). The next day we all went down the River Seine (Poison River) on a boat for like 9 euro, and saw lots of famous Paris bridges which were beautiful and ANCIENT! We also saw Notre Dame Cathedral, which is not at all like it is in the Disney movie! I know I shouldn't base my facts off of a Disney movie, but I expected a lot more. The gargoyles were so tiny you could barely see them, and the Cathedral was big, but not THAT big, and the inside was okay, very grandiose. It had huge baroque chandeliers and organs, very interesting, but not that great. I honestly couldn't tell you why it was so famous, because the ones in Spain are much bigger, more interesting, more grandiose, more baroque and more detailed. I'm not playing favorites, Spain has them beat by a long-shot. The most interesting things about this cathedral are 1) the fact that it's so famous and 2) a statue had its head chopped off and was holding it in its own hands. And that's what I think about Notre Dame.