Friday, January 28, 2011

Exploring the Fifth...

On Wednesday, I met up with three new friends to go explore the fifth arrondissement. We started along the Seine and walked through a garden filled with modern art sculptures. 
Lindsay, Lindsey, and Miranda in the modern art garden along the Seine
We made our way to the Jardin des Plantes, which is a big botanical garden with several greenhouses from the 1930s. Also here are three natural-history museums and the Menagerie, one of the world's oldest zoos. 
Jardin des Plantes

a pink greenhouse!
We next headed to see La Grande Mosquee de Paris, built in the 1920s. Just around the corner was the Arenes de Lutece, an old roman amphitheater were a group of old men were playing a game of boules. Of course after all this walking, we had to stop for pastries.

French men playing boules in the Roman amphitheater 

2 comments:

  1. what is this boules game? how do you play? they also need to repaint that pink greenhouse...

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