Sunday, June 9, 2013

Paris - Day 4 - Part I - The Lourve

After a good night rest, we ventured out early to Patisserie Viennoise at Rue de l'École de Médecine to check the famous hot chocolate. Early morning at Ecole de Medicine:

 Patisserie Viennoise early morning

Waiting to try out the famous hot chocolate.

Small petite shop, I think the bakery is underneath, seen through the ventilation fan.

The pastries available, no english translation, so go with gut feel.

Cakes and buns.

Once ordered, we settled down at a corner of the shop.

Very old feel at the shop.

Shortly after, the food was served.

Prune puff

Croissant is a must.

This is really hard biscuit, probably to go with the hot chocolate

The famous hot chocolate. A top layer of chocolate cream.

Also a cup of tea.

The prune puff attacked!

Overall, the breakfast is not bad, but the hot chocolate wasn't up to our expectation, probably we hoped for really rich hot chocolate. The prune puff and croissant are ok, but not perfect. After the breakfast, we headed for the Lourve and also the arch.

At the metro station

Probably too early, not many people yet.

We headed to Concorde station to walk through Jardines des Tuilleries

Sunrise at Place de la Concorde

Walking toward the arch and the Lourve

Artistic statue

One of the wings of the Lourve

The octagonal basin

Autumn leaves at Jardin des Tuileries, used to be a Palace, but destroyed

Rear of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is triumphal arch built between 1806 to 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories.

Main facade of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

The details written.

Statue on the right of the arch

Another status on the left of the arch

Widest angle shot

The Lourve


Inside the pyramid of glass

High end tea house of Marriage Feres

Famous French delicacy, Macarons of Laduree

Laduree has a shop in Lourve

Inverted pyramid.

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