What’s not too like about Monet, Degas and Renoir? Nothing except when you have to spend hours on your feet walking through endless rooms and waiting in long lines while being careful not to bump into other fanny-pack-wearing tourists. At least that’s probably what this girl was thinking as she covered her eyes in protest. Ah, yeah we feel her pain — traveling in Paris must be so damn awful.
(Taken by Al at the Musee d’Orsay)
Categories: France · Tourists
Tagged: France, Musee d'Orsay, painting, Paris, tourist
When we think of the women of Paris we imagine: a natural beauty dressed head-to-toe in black and smoking lots and lots of cigarettes. So if you’re on the bank of the Seine snapping pics in your silly sheep-resembling hat and puffy baby blue jacket it’s not hard to stand out as an American in Paris. Oy. No wonder the French think we’re so lame.
Categories: Fashionable Tourists
Tagged: Tourists, Paris, American
We’re used to all kinds of tourists, but we’re most fascinated by the ones who don’t bring enough clothing to wear on vacation especially when it’s winter time and you’re visiting one of the best art museums around (see Monet painting on left at Paris’ Musee d’Orsay). Our guess? She probably couldn’t fit her hair products or that giant silver bag into her suitcase so she chose to compromise her winter sweater.
Categories: Eurotrash
Tagged: France, Monet, Musee d'Orsay, museum, Paris, slutty
The winter is a perfect place to go to Paris — there are virtually no tourists there. However, we did seem to find a few better-seen-in-summer stragglers. For example, this extra tall European visitor who was dressed in shades of pink. What would you call the color of his pants — raspberry? Anyway, he was hot.
(taken by James who needs to own a color called raspberry)
Categories: Eurotrash
Tagged: France, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, pink, raspberry, tourist, winter
We’ve been known to snap a few drunken, pics of our mouth-gaping friends with a cigarette in hand, but never have we looked so outwardly sober. But in Paris — the land of snotty well-dressed men and previously-smokey cafes (too bad for the ban) it’s acceptable to smoke even as you’re taking a landmark photo of the Musee d’Orsay. We’re impressed. If we could do everything while holding a cigarette, maybe we wouldn’t have quit.
Categories: Tourists
Tagged: cigarettes, multitasking, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Categories: Fashionable Tourists
Tagged: Arkansas, baguette, beret, France, Paris, Southern
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