Paris, Intense, beautiful, amazing...

Intense, beautiful city... Exquisite food, amazing museums, lots of people.. Most impressive sight, the goddess Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, it took my breath away... The most enjoyable time with my cousin Rebeca that we met after to many year to count.

The goddess Nike or Winged Victory of Samothace, 190 BC the lighters 3 ton sculpture I have ever seen. The way the Louvre presented this sculpture is unique, you walked from the bottom of the stairs and the sight is impressive, beautiful and magnificent. It took my breath away, so, that I took only one picture, but pictures can't describe the emotion...

Paris - here we come

Finally after almost a year of planning, we are headed to Paris, city of light, city of love... I enjoyed the reading, the learning, the language lessons, the expectations, now it time to enjoy once more all we envision. 

Everything is going so easy and good friends are joining us for our adventure. I am looking forward to meeting many interesting people and exchange point of views and ways of living...

Au revoir

Day 5 *Musée du Louvre *

The Louvre opens on Wednesday's until 10 PM, since there is so much to see this is the best day for us, and it's also cheaper. We have some must see, The Mona Lisa, Near Eastern antiquities  specially the room of the code of Hammurabi, (room 3)  The Greeks, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities and if we have time The Egyptians 

From their web site

Passing on Knowledge

Through writing, the Near East gave rise to a culture that handed down a dual heritage to the Western world: the biblical tradition on the one hand, and the transmission of Greco-Roman knowledge on the other. The exile of the Jews from various countries of the region to Babylon in the 6th century BC did have a positive consequence in that it enabled the people of the Holy Land to assimilate the store of knowledge that had developed in Mesopotamia since the 3rd millennium. With the rule of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century, the Near East from the Mediterranean to India became Greek, while retaining its intellectual heritage, which it bequeathed to scholars of various cultures. Greek and Hebrew authors, theologians, philosophers, and mathematicians thus safeguarded a tradition that is thousands of years old—despite the fact that the civilizations that created it have completely disappeared. Furthermore, in the Near East, this ancient knowledge was transmitted in written texts by Arabic, Turkish, and Persian scholars, who endeavored to conserve ancient texts from Babylonia and the Greek civilization. www.louvre.fr/

Day 3 * 3/8 ** Bus #69 tour

On Monday we plan to take the tour bus # 69. have a picnic in the Champ the Mars overseeing the Eiffel Tower. I think I want to do at least 2 picnics in Paris, the other choice will be somewhere overseeing the seine. While in Paris become a Parisian at least for a week