{"id":16956,"date":"2022-03-15T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=16956"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:48:12","slug":"exploring-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/03\/15\/exploring-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bonjour everyone! Recently, my university in Lyon, France, had a week-long break at the end of February. I used that opportunity to visit Paris with my friend Josh, who is also from Mizzou and studying abroad at the same university as me! When a lot of people think of France, they almost immediately think of the country&#8217;s capital, Paris. My journey started by taking a high-speed train from Lyon to Paris. Normally, it would take about six hours to drive to Paris from Lyon, but if you take the high-speed train, it&#8217;s less than two hours! Once we arrived, we went to our Airbnb and slept so that we would be ready to explore Paris for a couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51928932355_8aa08a2ff9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead shot of the chocolate-draped Mont Blanc dessert on a plate and a pitcher of hot chocolate.\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelina&#8217;s Famous Tea Room (hot chocolate and Mont Blanc dessert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>On our first day, we went to the Paris Catacombs, visited Angelina&#8217;s Famous Tea Room and the Eiffel Tower, and explored the Champ-Elys\u00e9es, which is famous for its shopping and the Arc de Triomphe. On our second day, we went to the Louvre and the Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Orsay. These two museums were both amazing! At the Louvre, I saw my favorite painting, Liberty Guiding the People by Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, and I saw the Mona Lisa. Then at the Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Orsay, there was a great Van Gogh exhibit. This included the original portrait of Van Gogh! Paris was such a fun place to visit and I can&#8217;t wait to go back and visit again.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51928302896_7cebfcbf94_c.jpg\" alt=\"Marc standing in front of the Liberty Guiding the People painting. \" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberty Guiding the People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51928644079_cc01471f2c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Van Gogh's self-portrait, making a serious face on the canvas. \" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Gogh&#8217;s portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour everyone! Recently, my university in Lyon, France, had a week-long break at the end of February. I used that opportunity to visit Paris with my friend Josh, who is also from Mizzou and studying abroad at the same university as me! When a lot of people think of France, they almost immediately think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-16956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16981,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions\/16981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}