Paris IX - The Food & The Gatal

Generally food and beverage in Paris are quite expensive, and giving me an impression that even London is cheaper. A cup of coffee in tourist area is about 4 euros and a meal can easily cost more than 15 euros per person.

Meet up with Charles at Bastille on the third day in Paris after visiting The Louvre. He progressed fast within a year and nearly proved that what Malaysia women want is angmoh. Anyway it's always good to meet up with old friend in a foreign country.

We went to Cafe de l'Industrie which I read about it before in some travel guide books. The interior decoration is quite unique and nice.

Charles recommended this for me, I thought it's some sort of animal penis initially. I forgot what it's called anyway and it's actually made from mixed animal organs.

Steph ordered the duck leg. I think it was the best meal we had in our 4 days visit. The price ewas quite reasonable at about 10 euros for the main course. I will definitely come again next time I visit Paris.

Paris Part VIII - The Louvre

Finally, it's Musee du Louvre, the main destination for the woman in Paris for her Da Vinci Code Tour.

We broke up in the morning, just patch back in the afternoon so she needed sunglasses to cover the red eyes :p

The are some ducks swimming in the triangle ponds around the pyramids.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace - still the piece of artwork that amazed me the most in the museum.

The Seated Scribe - one of the most important example of ancient Egyptian art.

The Sphinxes, inspired by the woman.

Temporary exhibition displaying some contemporary arts.

The view beneath the pyramid.

The triangle pond and the reflection.

The pyramid.

The night view at The Louvre is great. Too bad I was lazy to bring out my tripod so couldn't really shoot from better angles. This picture was taken putting my camera on a stone baluster.

I think this is the angle of one of the Da Vinci Code's movie poster. Taken at F3.5, 1/2.5 sec hand held, ISO 800 with anti-shake turned on, quite bearable still after processing in Photoshop.

Paris VII - Edgar Quinet Market

We had a fight one morning and the woman ran away from 'home'.

I found the woman in Edgar Quinet Market, near our hotel.

It is an ordinary market but somehow I quite like the local feel rather than other tourist places.

There were a few 'special' people turned up in the market. French humour I guess?

Damn retarded.

Tried the paella in the market, not up to the expectation though.

Paris Part VI - Avenue Des Champs

Avenue Des Champs is the famous shopping street in Paris, like Oxford Street in London.

Grand Palais near Avenue Des Champs - Statue of Charles De Gaulle.

Tribute to the general.

Grand Palais - it was closed when we arrived. I visited Paris twice and missed one of the greatest steel and glass structure twice! See some nice photos here.

Where should I go next?

Petit Palais right opposite Grand Palais.

The old couple - taken with beercan at F4, 1/60 sec, ISO100.

I forgot what building is this, an outstanding one along the avenue.

There's a nice Toyota showroom there.

Beneath Arc De Triomphe.

Taken at F22, 20 sec exposure, ISO100.

Paris V - Musee de l'erotisme

At the bottom of Montmartre Hill is where the Paris 'entertainment' area located.

Moulin Rouge along Boulevard De Clinchy, famous of its striptease show since 18th century.

Down the road is where all the sex shops, peep shows, and also Museum of Eroticism located. There are 5 floors including a basement exhibition in the museum with some interesting collection.

The naked witch with her flying cock broom.

50mm, F1.7, 1/100 sec at ISO400

Eh... this could be offensive for some people?

A special keris, perhaps Hishamuddin should wave this in UMNO assemblies.

A Japanese dagger.

Ancient pornographic, this is where the incredible sex industry in Japan started from.

The apple and the banana.

A miniature erotic scene.

Torture or stimulation chair?

The top 2 floors are art and photography galleries. I like this chair! It was quite an interesting experience for our third day in Paris.

An anti-racism parade along Boulevard de Clinchy when we left the museum.

Paris IV - Montmartre

Montmartre is a 130m high hill in north of Paris, also known as a nightclub district.

Caught the taxi on the street of Montmartre.

Paris skyline from Montmartre.

Basilica of the Sacre Coeur.

Great architecture, polarized blue sky.

Paris Part III - Eiffel Tower

The structure that not to be missed when visiting Paris is the Eiffel Tower.

The tower will blinks at the 10th minute past every hour at night and it looks great! This unintentional shot was taken at F10.0, 5 sec hand held, but turns out to be my favourite shot of the trip.


The blinking tower.

I've told the woman that it'll be a totally different feel standing beneath the tower than watching it anywhere else. It's just so hard to imagine how it was constructed 120 years ago and it was supposed to be a "temporary structure" built for the Exposition Universelle.

Taken at second tier of the tower.

Paris night view from the tower; taken on a tripod at F10.0, 20 sec long exposure, ISO 100.

Another shot taken hand held at F4.5, 1/2 sec, ISO 800; Sony A100's weakness in high ISO is noticeable.

Taken on top of the tower and trust me, it was raining and real windy!

There's a 360 degree world map on top of the tower. Malaisie is 10,433 km away; it's lucky that the French translated Singapore as Singapour and not Singapoor.

View of Eiffel Tower from Trocadero. I just found out that the night image of Eiffel Tower is copyrighted!

It's the most visited and most photographed structure in the world.

I am still struggling to handle flash photography.