{"id":569,"date":"2008-08-17T07:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=569"},"modified":"2008-08-31T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T20:19:58","slug":"long-walk-home-from-the-orsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/long-walk-home-from-the-orsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Long walk home from the Orsay"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Orsay Museum we planned to ride the 69 bus to get a better feel for Paris. We soon realized that Bus 69 doesn’t run on Sunday and opted for a bite to eat instead. Then we headed down Rue Bonaparte.<\/p>\n

After checking out the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres we got caught in a bit of a downpour forcing us into Saint-Sulpice, made famous, in part, by\u00a0The Da Vinci Code<\/a><\/em>. Saint-Sulpice was\u00a0remarkable on the inside and a service was taking place. A huge organ in the rear played some most haunting melodies. Nothing is creepier in Paris, it seems, than the churches and what goes on inside.<\/p>\n

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An impressive fountain awaited us once the rain stopped and we departed St. Sulpice.<\/p>\n

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We then headed south to Luxembourg Park which was nearly empty thanks to the rain. The French and tourists don’t seem to be able to brave the rain like the Danish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The above photograph is one of my favorites from the trip, featuring some impressive clouds and the Eiffel Tower in the distance on the right.<\/p>\n

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Paris’s Pantheon was closed by the time we got there, but the walk was fun and the streets were deserted.<\/p>\n

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As we walked back to our apartment on the bridges crossing the Seine we caught some nice glimpses of Notre Dame Cathedral<\/a>. We had thoughts of climbing the tower, but we were more than a bit tired, and 760 steps up and down didn’t sound like too much fun at that point. Plus, it was going to be closing in\u00a0half an hour.<\/p>\n

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After the Orsay Museum we planned to ride the 69 bus to get a better feel for Paris. We soon realized that Bus 69 doesn’t run on Sunday and opted for a bite to eat instead. Then we headed down Rue Bonaparte. After checking out the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres we got caught in a bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[130,142,132,131,141,575,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}