Honeymoon Day 6
I can't recommend enough 2 simple things when you travel: Public Transit passes and Museum/Multi-Day passes to a city.
We knew Paris had cheap public transit, but we didn't realize how easy it was to get around everywhere on a single-ride ticket. The Paris Metro allows you to buy 10 single-trip tickets at a go, a 20€ cost, and you can split them across as many people as you want (10/2=5 Trips for the both of us!) Turns out this is all we'll actually need for our 2.5 days in Paris (exception, special train ticket out and back from Versailles).
The Museum Pass for Paris is stupidly efficient as well, it folds down to the size of a pack of gum, or a Tic-Tacs container, and gives access to something like 60 museums in Paris and the surrounding area for only 48€. Our first day alone we paid the pass off with all the stops we went to, so essentially 2 full days in Paris, travel and museums: 60€/person. SOLID.
Napoleon's Tomb. It's placed in the basement so that you have to bow when you see him. After the tomb we walked through a few sections of the Army museum, and all these stops alone would have been an extra 30€, and probably not a place we would have wanted to see, so again, the Museum Pass paid dividends!
Next stop was the Musee D'Orsay, which is home to some more work by Rodin, as well as Van Gogh.
Van Gogh, Musee D'Orsay
Us, Musee D'Orsay
Joules Coutan "Eagle Hunt" Musee D'Orsay
Last, but not least was the Louvre. Molly and I had this on our "We don't have to go here" list, because it's always busy and lines are long, but we noticed there was no line by the time we arrived (later in the afternoon, about 5pm), so with it being free with the Museum Pass, we went on in!
Very annoyingly, half of the wings in the Louvre were closed for no reason, some hallways randomly ended, and it was the most confusing building I've ever walked through in my life, but after about an hour of being lost, we finally located the Mona Lisa:
Joe
We knew Paris had cheap public transit, but we didn't realize how easy it was to get around everywhere on a single-ride ticket. The Paris Metro allows you to buy 10 single-trip tickets at a go, a 20€ cost, and you can split them across as many people as you want (10/2=5 Trips for the both of us!) Turns out this is all we'll actually need for our 2.5 days in Paris (exception, special train ticket out and back from Versailles).
The Museum Pass for Paris is stupidly efficient as well, it folds down to the size of a pack of gum, or a Tic-Tacs container, and gives access to something like 60 museums in Paris and the surrounding area for only 48€. Our first day alone we paid the pass off with all the stops we went to, so essentially 2 full days in Paris, travel and museums: 60€/person. SOLID.
Our first stop was at the Museum that shares our name, The Musee Rodin! It was very cool to see his process from simple sketches, to detailed sketch, to clay, to bronze, and eventually marble. I like a lot of his work, but it would be even cooler if he actually finished half of his work instead of saying "good enough!"*
*He never actually said "Good Enough!" but his artwork kind of shows it with it's unrefined look.
Smooches Statue.
New Dance Move: The Sprinkler
The Three Shades, or as I called them, "Robert Smiths Fans"
The Gates of Hell
Joseph Napolean I's tomb.
Napoleon's Tomb. It's placed in the basement so that you have to bow when you see him. After the tomb we walked through a few sections of the Army museum, and all these stops alone would have been an extra 30€, and probably not a place we would have wanted to see, so again, the Museum Pass paid dividends!
Next stop was the Musee D'Orsay, which is home to some more work by Rodin, as well as Van Gogh.
Van Gogh, Musee D'Orsay
Us, Musee D'Orsay
Joules Coutan "Eagle Hunt" Musee D'Orsay
The D'Orsay used to be a train station. This is what it would look like with Molly standing in front of it.
Last, but not least was the Louvre. Molly and I had this on our "We don't have to go here" list, because it's always busy and lines are long, but we noticed there was no line by the time we arrived (later in the afternoon, about 5pm), so with it being free with the Museum Pass, we went on in!
Very annoyingly, half of the wings in the Louvre were closed for no reason, some hallways randomly ended, and it was the most confusing building I've ever walked through in my life, but after about an hour of being lost, we finally located the Mona Lisa:
The Mona Lisa. You can't get close to it, so I'm not 100% convinced this isn't a poster in a frame.
Molly being happy that I'm happy that I saw the Mona Lisa.
Dinner and back to the Hotel, they were sweet enough to leave us some Sparkling Wine, chocolates, and Foie Gras. For dinner, we went to a place that had some bad reviews online, but specifically "This is a locals only restaurant, they don't like foreigners. Bad service," and we were like "YUP Let's go!" and it turns out they were super nice and made a very good Beef Tartar. Highly recommend Un Zebre A Montmartre!
Also, Beef Tartar is like the Rodin of food, so much work goes into it and all you have to do is finish it off just right, but instead, you stop short and say "Good Enough!"
Joe
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