Friday, February 23, 2007

Friday, 23 February

My week in Paris is busy.. not only am I busy with my work, I am also busy going to lots of events... I found that the Sorbonne runs a very good series of concerts - so I went to three concerts in one week - some photos of two of the concerts are here...
I also made a photo story of my trip from work to home (home to work is the same - just in reverse order...). Travelling to work takes up quite a lot of time (1 to 1.5 hours per day), so I thought it was worth recording things I saw one day on the way home...


















... most of the metro line from work to where I live is on a bridge, so there are some nice views.


... this is the nearest station to where I live.


... my apartment is on the third floor, above a bakery.

Sean Lennon and a French musician played concerst at the Sorbonne - both of them were very good. Sean Lennon (the son of John Lennon) was very funny... there was a kind of debate before his concert where he explained the philosophy behind his music...











Sunday, 18 February

Here are a few photos I took while walking around Paris on a Sunday afternoon...From my apartment I walked to rue Mouffetard...Each Sunday a group of musicians play French music and the crowd sings. They are at the end of rue Mouffetard - by a market.






At the top of rue Mouffetard is the Pantheon - one of the large churches of Paris and where the greatest people of France are buried.


Down hill from the Pantheon is the River Seine - a nice place to go on Sunday to listen to musicians and to avoid the traffic...




Here are some views taken from the apartment of George Whitman, the owner of the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, just opposite Notre Dame...