Some More Parisian Postcards...

After having a date with Napoleon Bonaparte at Les Invalides, we headed out to explore a bit more of Paris.

On the Avenue de Breteuil...

On the Big Bus...

Hotel Du Louvre...

Heading to the Louvre...

The glass pyramid at the Louvre...

Whether associated with the devil or not, the Pyramide du Louvre is indeed quite a sight...

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel which lies on one end of the Axe Historique...

This arch - one of the three in Paris is located in the Place du Carrousel, right in front of the Louvre. It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories of the previous years. The top of the arch has a sculpture of peace riding in a triumphal chariot...

The Seine...

A quay named after the legendary French president of the 1980s, Francois Mitterrand...

Our bus...

Headed to Pont Neuf...

There is nothing better than a relaxed conversation...

La Samaritaine, a large department store...

The towers of Notre-Dame...

There are so many mysteries to be explored at Notre-Dame...

And it poured, and poured...

Back at the Eiffel...

École Militaire and the Tour Montparnasse behind it...

And the Champs de Mars lie right ahead of us. The park is named after the Campus Martius (or the Mars Field) in Rome, as a tribute to the Roman God of war, Mars...

These lawns here were once used as drilling and marching grounds by the French military...

And then as we turned into the Champs Elysees, it started pouring again. And we were a trifle disappointed as we wanted to explore this boulevard, but couldn't in the rain. But we tried our best to enjoy the sights of this avenue that the French proudly call "la plus belle avenue du monde" or the world's most beautiful avenue...

And we hummed Aux Champs Elysees, there couldn't be a more fitting ode to this avenue...

Je me baladais sur l'avenue le coeur ouvert à l'inconnu

J'avais envie de dire bonjour à n'importe qui

N'importe qui et ce fut toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi

Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées

Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit

Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Tu m'as dit "J'ai rendez-vous dans un sous-sol avec des fous

Qui vivent la guitare à la main, du soir au matin"

Alors je t'ai accompagnée, on a chanté, on a dansé

Et l'on n'a même pas pensé à s'embrasser

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées

Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit

Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue

Deux amoureux tout étourdis par la longue nuit

Et de l'Étoile à la Concorde, un orchestre à mille cordes

Tous les oiseaux du point du jour chantent l'amour

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées

Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit

Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées

Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit

Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées

I have walked along the avenue

The heart opened for the unknown

I wished to say: good morning

No matter whom

No matter who you were

I told you no matter what

It was enough talking to you

For taming you.

At the Champs- Élysées

At the Champs- Élysées

In the sun, under the rain

At noon or at midnight

There is everything you want

At the Champs- Élysées

You told me: „I have a date

In abasement with the madmen

Who spend with the guitar in the hand

From evening to morning.”

So, i have accompanied you

We sang, we danced

And we weren’t even thinking

Of kissing.

At the Champs- Élysées

At the Champs- Élysées

In the sun, under the rain

At noon or at midnight

There is everything you want

At the Champs- Élysées

Yesterday evening, two strangers

And this morning, on the avenue

Two lovers, all dazed

From the long night

And from the Étoile to Concorde

An orchestra with thousand strings

All the birds of the point of the day

Sing the love.

At the Champs- Élysées

At the Champs- Élysées

In the sun, under the rain

At noon or at midnight

There is everything you want

At the Champs- Élysées