A Trip to Paris - More Bones - Day 3, part 5

I really enjoyed looking at all the stuff at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée.


I even played around with my Fish-Eye lens.




Not sure what it is, but it looks like a cool animal.


A mammoth, I think.


And some kind of sloth.


Another view from above.


Some cave painting reproductions.


There were lots of fossils, with pictures above them to explain about them.


Isn't this one fun?!

After visiting the museum we had something to drink and talked for a while with Melliane and her friend. Finally we said goodbye and went back to our hotel, because we were a bit tired after such a long, but fun day.



We got yummy food at a Chinese/Vietnamese takeaway restaurant close to our hotel.


And after a good meal and a nice bottle of beer I went to sleep, dreaming about all the cool things I had seen, and about all the stuff I wanted to do the next day.

A Trip to Paris - Bones - Day 3, part 4

After visiting the Grand Galerie de l'Évolution we took a walk in the gardens.

After our walk we met up with Melliane and one of her friends.
We decided to visit another museum at Jardin des Plantes with the four of us.


Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée
A museum full of skeletons!


This museum was creepy cool!










I think this is the skull of one of my ancestor.


A view at the skeletons from above.


At the next floor they had dinosaurs!


How cool!


This looks like it's a dinosaur version of a crocodile.


This showed how dinosaur bones got discovered and dug up I think.


Prehistoric fish.

Another cool museum.
I will show you more pictures tomorrow.

A Trip to Paris - A Park, Food, and Books - Day 2, part 2

Melliane also showed us a bit of Jardin du Luxembourg.
It looked like they were working on the gardens.


We had a look at the magnificent mansion.


And part of the garden.


I really liked this statue.


Next to the statue was a bit of plastic, and pigeons were all over it. I wonder what it was for and why the pigeons were so interested in it.


After our shopping and sightseeing we had lunch.
I got a Calzone pizza!


We then walked to a metro station, doing a bit more shopping and sightseeing along the way.


We took a metro to another part of Paris to go to Salon du Livre.
It's a big book convention, and both Melliane and us were very curious about it. There would be publishers and some authors as well.


There were books! so many books.
But all of them were in French!


Such a pretty cover!
If the book had been in English, I think I'd have bought it.

We tried finding publishers with English or American books, but it was a really confusing convention. There was a small map, but it only showed an incomplete floor plan and not where to find things.


We did find an author: Andrea Cremer
She was really friendly and agreed to have a picture taken with me.


She also signed a French sampler of her Steampunk book The Inventor's Secret.
I really want to read The Inventor's Secret, but it's a hardcover and very expensive. I will be reading Nightshade by Adrea Cremer soon though.


I spotted a Blake and Mortimer comic I don't have yet, but it also was in French...


More cool looking books!
In French...


We walked around the convention trying to find books that weren't in French, and we found Russian, Polish, Congolese and other books, but no English books...

If there were English books, they were really well hidden. I was a little disappointed, but in the end we had fun spending the day with Melliane, so even though this convention was very different than both I and Melliane had hoped, we had a great day.

At the end of the afternoon we said goodbye to Mellaine, but made plans to meet her again the next day. We then returned to our hotel and after dinner we relaxed and read until we were sleepy.

A Trip to Paris - Meeting a Friend - Day 2, part 1

On Friday morning we got up early and had breakfast.


There was orange juice


And french bread!

After breakfast we caught a metro to the center of the city, because we were meeting an online friend: Melliane from Between Dreams and Reality.


We met up at the Notre Dame which is in the exact center of the city I'm told. All distances to Paris are measured from the square in front of the Notre Dame.


We had a look around at the Notre Dame of course.






After our visit to the Notre Dame, Melliane took us shopping.


First she showed us Shakespeare and Company, a really cool bookshop close to the Notre Dame.


Next we wandered around a bit, looking at shops in general, and browsing some bookshops.


I spotted another church.


And this building with fountains in front of it.


I also saw these really yummy cakes!


I'll tell you more about our day with Melliane tomorrow!