September 2016

[CFC2010]

True but I think you will find that the most beautiful women in the world reside in Medellin Colombia!

Finals footy would be the furthest thing from anyones mind in Medellin!

Never been but I'll take your word for it........one place I have always wanted to go is Brazil.

Hot......hot............hot!

 

[jmac70]

True but I think you will find that the most beautiful women in the world reside in Medellin Colombia!

Finals footy would be the furthest thing from anyones mind in Medellin!

It sounds like a Medellin girl is waiting for you.

 

[Bad Horse]

Yeah I'm doing my research, apparently there is a smaller entrance to the Louvre that not many know about instead of queing out the front all day.... I don't want to waste a second because I may never get back but already paranoid about flight delays and missing flights lol and also getting robbed...

Theres three smaller entrances. The best known is probably the Carousel de Louvre entrance you can find from the Metro if you like, use the Palais Royale/Musee du Louvre station and there is a walkway into the Carousel and the lower entrance.

The Paris Museum Pass was probably worth it to jump queues, you can buy one for 2 days or 4 days worth and it covers unlimited entrance to a pretty huge range of the most popular museums; eg Louvre, Musee d'orsay, the Arc de Triomphe, the Musee Rodin, Saint Chapelle. You can buy one from any of the participating museums, or the FNAC counter. I went to one of the less popular museums on the list near where I was staying specifically to buy the pass so i wouldnt have to queue the long way at the Louvre to buy the pass.

http://en.parismuseumpass.com/

Generally there is a separate entrance with less queueing for people who have a museum pass or similar prepaid ticket. Its still not zero queueing though, everyone gets x-rayed at all attractions and it is what causes the most queueing.

Also there are night sessions at some of the museums, the Louvre and the d'orsay are both open late, different nights, and the late sessions are a bit less crowded and crazy. Louvre its Wed and Fri.

If you want to go out to Versailles, prepurchase a guided tour if you can of the royal apartments, it gets you past all the queues and right in (plus its good in its own right). You can find internet cafes to print out preorder tickets pretty easy and it puts you miles ahead on time if you can use them.

 

[sirlothie]

I read once that if you spent 10 seconds looking at everything in the Louvre it would take you over 30 years. Think they included the stuff in the basements as well.

Far out...

 

[sirlothie]

Theres three smaller entrances. The best known is probably the Carousel de Louvre entrance you can find from the Metro if you like, use the Palais Royale/Musee du Louvre station and there is a walkway into the Carousel and the lower entrance.

The Paris Museum Pass was probably worth it to jump queues, you can buy one for 2 days or 4 days worth and it covers unlimited entrance to a pretty huge range of the most popular museums; eg Louvre, Musee d'orsay, the Arc de Triomphe, the Musee Rodin, Saint Chapelle. You can buy one from any of the participating museums, or the FNAC counter. I went to one of the less popular museums on the list near where I was staying specifically to buy the pass so i wouldnt have to queue the long way at the Louvre to buy the pass.

http://en.parismuseumpass.com/

Generally there is a separate entrance with less queueing for people who have a museum pass or similar prepaid ticket. Its still not zero queueing though, everyone gets x-rayed at all attractions and it is what causes the most queueing.

Also there are night sessions at some of the museums, the Louvre and the d'orsay are both open late, different nights, and the late sessions are a bit less crowded and crazy. Louvre its Wed and Fri.

If you want to go out to Versailles, prepurchase a guided tour if you can of the royal apartments, it gets you past all the queues and right in (plus its good in its own right). You can find internet cafes to print out preorder tickets pretty easy and it puts you miles ahead on time if you can use them.

Yeah I will investigate attraction passes for all the cities, even Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good ones if you want to have a weekend out and about!

 

[Chameleon75]

When we were there we went straight to The Mona Lisa. It was amazing but I'm sure we missed out on a lot better stuff.

the painted ceilings we're better than some of the stuff hanging on the walls, amazing place

 

[jmac70]

the painted ceilings we're better than some of the stuff hanging on the walls, amazing place

Yep totally. It's one of those galleries where you keep asking yourself, I am really here?

 

[CFC2010]

Theres three smaller entrances. The best known is probably the Carousel de Louvre entrance you can find from the Metro if you like, use the Palais Royale/Musee du Louvre station and there is a walkway into the Carousel and the lower entrance.

The Paris Museum Pass was probably worth it to jump queues, you can buy one for 2 days or 4 days worth and it covers unlimited entrance to a pretty huge range of the most popular museums; eg Louvre, Musee d'orsay, the Arc de Triomphe, the Musee Rodin, Saint Chapelle. You can buy one from any of the participating museums, or the FNAC counter. I went to one of the less popular museums on the list near where I was staying specifically to buy the pass so i wouldnt have to queue the long way at the Louvre to buy the pass.

http://en.parismuseumpass.com/

Generally there is a separate entrance with less queueing for people who have a museum pass or similar prepaid ticket. Its still not zero queueing though, everyone gets x-rayed at all attractions and it is what causes the most queueing.

Also there are night sessions at some of the museums, the Louvre and the d'orsay are both open late, different nights, and the late sessions are a bit less crowded and crazy. Louvre its Wed and Fri.

If you want to go out to Versailles, prepurchase a guided tour if you can of the royal apartments, it gets you past all the queues and right in (plus its good in its own right). You can find internet cafes to print out preorder tickets pretty easy and it puts you miles ahead on time if you can use them.

Let me guess you picked up a Louvre tour guide on top of the necrofiliac.

You sure you aren't a sly dog, Bad Horse?

 

[partylikeits1990]

It sounds like a Medellin girl is waiting for you.

Happily married j!

 

[sirlothie]

Any of you guys been to the Vatican? Is it hard to get in?

 

[jmac70]

Any of you guys been to the Vatican? Is it hard to get in?

Yes I have been there. You have to get there early in the morning. Don't remember any problems.

 

[sirlothie]

Yes I have been there. You have to get there early in the morning. Don't remember any problems.

And you can get in and see the Sistine Chapel and everything, not just stand in the courtyard?

 

[jmac70]

And you can get in and see the Sistine Chapel and everything, not just stand in the courtyard?

You could when I was there, although that was in 2005.

 

[sirlothie]

You could when I was there, although that was in 2005.

Do they have VB on tap?

 

[left at home]

spent eight days in New York, could have spent at least 3 times that long, loved totally

 

[Bad Horse]

Let me guess you picked up a Louvre tour guide on top of the necrofiliac.

You sure you aren't a sly dog, Bad Horse?

No tour guides Spent a lot of time taking photos of Japanese tourists. you can snap photos to your hearts content in the Louvre as long as you dont use a flash and every second tourist wanted me to snap a shot of them with the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo.

I may have met a Danish backpacker checking out the Marly Horses though. It's a horse thing.

 

[jmac70]

Do they have VB on tap?

I didn't notice any bars in the Vatican but there are plenty outside the walls. Stay away from VB, it will rot your brain.

 

[sirlothie]

No tour guides Spent a lot of time taking photos of Japanese tourists. you can snap photos to your hearts content in the Louvre as long as you dont use a flash and every second tourist wanted me to snap a shot of them with the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo.

I may have met a Danish backpacker checking out the Marly Horses though. It's a horse thing.

I would take one of one if they would take one of me, then I would tell them to get ****ed... I got good at that in Thailand... although I'm still pissed at the taxi who took me via the tailor shop...

 

[sirlothie]

I didn't notice any bars in the Vatican but there are plenty outside the walls. Stay away from VB, it will rot your brain.

Too late.

 

[CFC2010]

No tour guides Spent a lot of time taking photos of Japanese tourists. you can snap photos to your hearts content in the Louvre as long as you dont use a flash and every second tourist wanted me to snap a shot of them with the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo.

I may have met a Danish backpacker checking out the Marly Horses though. It's a horse thing.

Love your work Bad Horse

 

[Troglodyte]

I'll spend the 1st of September celebrating the fact we only came 2nd last - no wooden spoon for us (and Carlton still have more than we do).

I'll spend the 2nd and 3rd still celebrating our August the 28th round 23 win over the Hawks, that slips them out of the 8 into 10th spot.

I'll spend the next few days celebrating the hand shake deal to send Travis to the Hawks (they are desperate at this point) for their #9 pick.

After than will come the (soon to be proven) rumours that GWS will take Witts and our #9 in exchange for the #2 we are about to give them.

This will be followed by a Harvard University study (# 1 ranked uni in 2015 for maths) showing that statistically, Collingwood won't have any injured players for at least 5 years and that this includes full recoveries for Elliott, Swan and Scharenberg.

We will then see our VFL team progress through the finals to almost win the GF (we wouldn't be Cwood if we won) with all our young guns starring and the only reason we lose is due to cheating umps.

September will end with Sydney beating GWS in the GF so there will be no gloating supporters of another Melbourne team to make fun of us, which will start the process of GWS giving us Tomlinson, Shaw and Stewart which leads to multiple premierships for us, which I have previously explained so I won't go into it again here.

In summary - September should be a fantastic month!

 

[sirlothie]

I always welcome September if only because you get to stop freezing your bollocks off...