take me to paris november 2013 | Page 14

Letter from the Editor

Paris is amazing, in my humble opinion is the most beautiful city in the world , sitting on a bench in the Tuileries Gardens , watching a Louvre on one side and the other the Eiffel Tower on the, almost hurts your eyes to such beauty and what it feels like , you know just being there , but hey, if you're going to stay a week , you can take a day at the Louvre ( I could stay there a month , but it is not the case ) , I suggest you go first to the section of paintings, to see the Mona Lisa , that close relatively early (the first time I went , I was 20 meters from there when they kicked me out because I was roaming around , but I used as an excuse to return ) , and in the late afternoon can go to the Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris on the île de la Cité (on the left there is a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Mexican donated by the community of Paris image , tell me afterwards what you felt ) . Another day, if you like the Impressionists , you cannot miss the Museum of Orsay ( I, personally, am a fan of van Gogh , so imagine ) , from there you can walk to the Hôtel des Invalides , where Napoleon's tomb is ( better not repeat what happened to a friend who said " No, the Hotel Regis is the Best of Paris , it is nicer " ) , and from there walk to the Tour Eiffel (try to get there early , cause then you will have to be in horrible queues, also the highest level closes early , if you have chance , walk to the Louvre , through the Tuileries Gardens, cross the Place de la Concorde and Les Champs- Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe , all that is relatively near. You can walk from one place to another. Farther is Sacre Coeur Church, that you can’t miss and from there walk to Montmartre, which is where part of the bohemian painters and everything.... , and if you like modern architecture, you cannot miss La Défense , which is a very interesting architectural complex in the financial section of Paris, at the end of Les Champs- Elysées in fact.