The Galeries Lafayette and Printemps department stores in Paris France setup spectacular displays and decorations in their windows for the Christmas holiday season.
This year in 2011, the displays were both animated with marionette puppets and music to go with the display. Galeries Lafayette’s theme this year was Un Noël à Paris, Noel Rock’n Mode, with displays based on a rock-n-roll band going on tour. Printemps windows were much more artistic, with an asian themed wiindow, a photo-shoot themed window, and an airport themed window. These windows are definitely a must-see if you’re in Paris for the holiday season, starting about mid-November.
On a recent trip to Paris, I was most impressed by the quality and caliber of the street musicians. Usually street performers around the world aren’t the best, and get people to give them money due to pity… but in Paris I want to give them money because they are actually talented! This is a collection of some of the best street musicians that I captured during my trip. Highlights of this video include a 20 member teenage band by the Eifel Tower, Violin played in a subway station, and a puppet show in a subway car.
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This video showcases the Lovers Bridge ( Pont des Arts ) in Paris France, located near the corner of the Louvre musuem, just a block from the Louvre-Rivoli metro stop. The bridge is famous as a place where lovers come to show their love by placing a “lock” on the bridge for each other. The locks are in many shapes and sizes and some are pretty awesome.
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The Chateau Versaille in Paris France had a special exhibit from Sep-Dec 2010 of Japanese sculpture from Takashi Murakami. This video shows highlights from the exhibit.
Some of the art was commissioned specifically for this exhibit. It’s really neat to see this sort of Japanese art in a French palace. A very neat juxtaposition.
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A pretty cool way to tour the Garden of Versaille at the Palace of Versaille in France is using the little electric golf carts. For 30 euro for one hour, it’s not cheap, but it really does save your feet because the gardens are massive in size. A neat future of the carts is that they have a GPS Enabled audio guide. When the cart approaches significant areas in the garden an informative summary is provided automatically. Super neat! This video shows the golf carts in action!
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I think this has to be the strangest museum in Paris…. The Le Musée des Égouts de Paris or the Paris Sewer Museum. A museum dedicated to the sewer system of Paris. The museum is actually inside the cities running sewers.
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The most photographed statue of a gargoyle in the world is on top of the Notre Dame Church in Paris France. In this video Chris introduces you to him, and his other friends on top of the church.
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In October I visited Paris. Of course you can’t go to Paris without checking out the Eifel Tower. The line for the elevator was nearly two hours long! So of course I took the stairs!
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