Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France (2011)
| Photos below: Sculptures by Bruno Catalano. |
| The above sculptures are by Bruno
Catalano, a living French artist who was born in 1960.
They are inside a ritzy little mall off the Avenue des
Champs-Élysées. Each sculpture is actually two pieces.
Your eyes are tricked into thinking that the middle of
the man has been "blown out" of the statue. Photo below: the Arc de Triomphe. |
| I finally got there! My first visit had
been in May 1998, with my then 8th-grade, homeschooled
daughter. That was so long ago that my daughter has now
completed graduate school. Photo below: Me, in
front of the Eternal Flame at the Arc de Triomphe. |
| And, that's what I looked like after 30
days on the road. I was a little pooped, a little cold,
and still fat when I handed my camera to someone and
asked for a photo. God bless my cane! It aided me all
over Europe. Photo below: The McDonald's on the Champs-Elysees. |
| From the Arc de Triomphe, I walked about two minutes
back onto the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and had a fish
sandwich at McDonald's. It was lots cheaper than the six
scallops at the fancy restaurant the night before, and
probably just as tasty. From the Champs-Élysées, it was a taxi ride to Notre Dame Cathedral. |