{"id":1361,"date":"2011-03-04T02:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:20:20","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"La Belle Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our stay in Paris started with a trip to the Canadian embassy, which all worked out just fine. After that we went over to see the world famous Louvre museum.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8416.jpg\" alt=\"Le Pyramide\" title=\"Le Pyramide\" width=\"560\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8416.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8416-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA bit of trivia, there are 35,000 pieces of art in there. If you spent one minute in front of each piece, it would take you 4 months to see it all. Needless to say we saw a fraction of it, but it was impressive none-the-less.<br \/>\nI loved the sculputres:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8382.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture\" title=\"Sculpture\" width=\"560\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8382.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8382-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe rest of the family was quite enamoured with the Ancient Egyptian displays. This stone tablet is very, very, very old.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8389.jpg\" alt=\"Heiroglyphics\" title=\"Heiroglyphics\" width=\"560\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8389.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8389-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere were a lot of nice sacophagus&#8217; and even a real mummy. I think that was the girl&#8217;s favourite.<br \/>\nThe next day we went up the Eiffel tower. A note of advice to any future-goers: It is cold and very windy up there in the winter. Even if it&#8217;s kind of nice lower down. Our stay at the top was brief but a nice view anyways.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8438.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8438.jpg\" alt=\"Top of the tower\" title=\"Top of the tower\" width=\"560\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8438.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8438-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA different kind of perspective:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8442.jpg\" alt=\"Eiffel tower\" title=\"Eiffel tower\" width=\"560\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8442.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8442-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8484.jpg\" alt=\"Family at the Eiffel tower\" title=\"Family at the Eiffel tower\" width=\"560\" height=\"837\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8484.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8484-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe took a boat trip along the Seine. The architecture is beautiful:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8467.jpg\" alt=\"Paris architecture\" title=\"Paris architecture\" width=\"560\" height=\"501\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8467.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8467-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd beautiful near-sunset views:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8474.jpg\" alt=\"Paris skyline\" title=\"Paris skyline\" width=\"560\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8474.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_8474-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe next day I went to pick up our passports and had a leisurely baguette while sitting on the Champs-Elysees. After that I strolled along the Seine on my way to the Musee d&#8217;Orsay. Tellement francais! The museum was beautiful and houses many famous impressionist works of art by some of my favourite painters; Van Gogh, Matisse, Monet, Gaugin, Degas, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Rodin, amongst others. Simon hopes that I am inspired to create masterpieces of my own! We shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our stay in Paris started with a trip to the Canadian embassy, which all worked out just fine. After that we went over to see the world famous Louvre museum. A bit of trivia, there are 35,000 pieces of art in there. If you spent one minute in front of each piece, it would take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206,230,251,190],"tags":[267,265,266,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}