A walk in the park: Montparnasse and the Jardin du Luxembourg

This walk starts with the Tour Montparnasse, which is the sky scrapper of Paris. The night before I went on this walk I went to the Eiffel tower and it was of course remarkable everywhere my eye took me except when I noticed the Tour Montparnasse. This building looks so ridiculous and is very unnecessary. With every design profession it is important to show innovation, thought, respect for surroundings, and beauty. This building breaks all of those rules. It is typical, boring, not thought out well, distracting, and ugly. I was obviously not a fan, Paris has modern areas but they have been thought out by being surrounded by other modern buildings, this one is just by itself and ruins the view of Paris.

The next memorable Part was going down the street Vavin. It was a really interesting street because all the stores had great window displays and the food was enticing and delectable. The next adventure in this walk took us to the statue of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the french army who was falsely convicted of treason in 1894. He was put through many trials and ultimately lost against the government. This statue was intended to be placed at the military school but was mover around to other unsatisfactory places till it was finally put here. A semi-crapy spot where no tourists will feel the need to walk too. But at least he is not facing a wall anymore.

After seeing Alfred Dreyfus we made our way to the Park knows as "Jardin du Luxembourg" This park was huge and we walked all around it. We looked at the minnie statue of Liberty and all the other amazing sculptures that covered the Park. There were people everywhere looking so relaxed and happy. Old men were playing games to pass time and children enjoyed the most elaborate playground I have ever seen. Everything was delectable at this Park, we went through the tour and were enjoying our time and then someone started to yell across the park so we all turned around and it was the police saying we had to leave. We were totally taken back since it was only 5:30 but I guess thats how they keep this park so pristine and clean. They have cops there to go crazy on you if you step out of line at all.

Overall I will for sure return back to this park and enjoy a good book or chess game with the locals. I love this spot and how so many other people did as well. It was very cold that day but still the Parisians were there no matter the weather. This tour was really fun, delicious, and interesting.