Marais Walk 2

I did this walk with two of my friends from the States and it was really fun because they were so excited by everything. Now that I live here I forget to enjoy every last bit of it but they brought back the excitement that I had my first month here. The first stop was the synagogue designed by Hector Guimard. It looked like a an open Torah scroll in art Nouveau style, it was really unique and executed perfectly for what Hector wanted.

Rue des Rosiers was a really pretty street that we turned on next and it got its name because Rose bushes used to go along the street. The shops were also really nice to see. They all had great window displays. We then stopped and had some delicious Falafel and one of the Jewish restaurants, it was of course delicious.

Our next stop was Hotel de Soubise, it is one of the most lavish mansions in Paris today. It has some of the best examples of Rococo and it was best depicted in the dinning room. The dinning room was really elaborate. The paint was really cool because when the light hit it it looked blue but when the room started to get dark the color looked green. It also had white decorative trim everywhere and it was super elaborate, but that was about it that really stuck out because it had no relics in the whole museum.

This was outside the museums.

This was the Dining room that I loved. The detail was the elaborate throughout the whole room. Also the room was a circle shape to it was really fun to spin in.

This was the ceiling of one of the Salons.

The next stop was the Musee Cognacq-Jay, it was a simple museum compared to others. It focused on eighteenth-century paintings. The next stop was the Picasso museum but it was closed until 2012. That was really dissapointing but that just means I will have to come back.