Sunday, November 30, 2014
Paris & London 2014 (Day 3)
First real morning in Paris actually. But it is already Day 3 of our trip!
Woke up to a lazy morning. Had a breakfast of bread. Figured we'd laze around for quite a bit. When we finally did go out, we ended up in a Farmer's Market and my friend had so much fun shopping. Well, I bought myself some almond cookies too. You might be wondering why I bought almond cookies... well they looked nice and buttery lol.
After that we sauntered over to Notre Dame, but along the way we decided to have lunch. We stopped at this place called Del Arte and had lunch there. I had Tagliatelle Carbonara. It was quite nice. We also shared a 4 cheese pizza. Nice! After lunch, we continued on to Notre Dame.
Along the way, we came across the Sainte-Chapelle. Turns out that it was King Louis IX of France's Chapel. It has a lot of stained glass windows, so anyone who loves stained glass should definitely come here for a visit! The windows on the upper level are huge and sprawling. Such a contrast to the cosy chapel on the lower level.
After visiting Sainte-Chapelle, we moved on to Notre Dame.
As we approached the Crypt Archaelogie, I was reminded of the Parkour video clip that fans had mode fro Assassin's Creed: Unity. It felt super cool to be standing in the area where this video was shot... just because!!
Although we had intended to visit Nore Dame, we gave up the thought when we saw the queue because we had a concert to attend that night. We opted to walk around the area instead which was quite pretty as well. Definitely many photos were taken. You could see all the gothic design elements that went into Notre Dame. No hunchback here though!!
When you come by Notre Dame, please be sure to give the external parts of the building a look. It's really pretty outside too!
After the walk round Notre Dame, we walked back to our accomodation and picked up the tickets to the night's concert that our host kindly printed out for us! She is such a lovely person!
Around 6 pm, we started our way over to Malesherbes metro station. The concert venue was ridiculously close such that I could not believe that I had already reached the location. Less than 5 mins walk from the metro, and we arrived at the Salle Cortot, which was a really initimate location for A New World, which is branded as being an intimate experience.
I was surprised that they chose to open with One Winged Angel because it was a ensemble set up and One winged Angel is a 'large' piece in the sense that it should typically be played by an orchestra or a rock band setup. However, just as Arnie Roth says, no FF concert can happen without One Winged Angel (Ya, you know all the poser FF7 fans) and so i guess it's great that they opened with it just to show us what the ensemble is capable of.
The ensemble was pretty good, though when Troia (FF4) was played, I got miffed at the cellist for what I felt was his screwing up of the piece. It was a cello / guitar duet, but I though a few spots were off for the cello.
I was also extremely pleased that they chose to end with The Red Wings from FF4. I can hardly imagine a concert ever getting closed by a FF4 piece cos FF4 is such a low profile installment of the Final Fantasy series. But it is my favourite. So I was preening in glee when it was played, and I think the ensemble was quite ok (apart from an annoying wind instrument).
And in a concert such as this, would you have ever considered the fact that there would not be an encore? IMPOSSIBLE! So the encore happened. Force Your Way from FF8. My second favourite FF!! This just keeps getting better. And so, I gave them a standing ovation, not because the ensemble played extremely well, but because they ended with The Red Wings and Force Your Way... and then they came up withh One Winged Angel again. Typical. But I like :)
And so, it was a lovely night in chilly Paris. Anything with FF can only be magical.
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Woke up to a lazy morning. Had a breakfast of bread. Figured we'd laze around for quite a bit. When we finally did go out, we ended up in a Farmer's Market and my friend had so much fun shopping. Well, I bought myself some almond cookies too. You might be wondering why I bought almond cookies... well they looked nice and buttery lol.
After that we sauntered over to Notre Dame, but along the way we decided to have lunch. We stopped at this place called Del Arte and had lunch there. I had Tagliatelle Carbonara. It was quite nice. We also shared a 4 cheese pizza. Nice! After lunch, we continued on to Notre Dame.
Along the way, we came across the Sainte-Chapelle. Turns out that it was King Louis IX of France's Chapel. It has a lot of stained glass windows, so anyone who loves stained glass should definitely come here for a visit! The windows on the upper level are huge and sprawling. Such a contrast to the cosy chapel on the lower level.
After visiting Sainte-Chapelle, we moved on to Notre Dame.
As we approached the Crypt Archaelogie, I was reminded of the Parkour video clip that fans had mode fro Assassin's Creed: Unity. It felt super cool to be standing in the area where this video was shot... just because!!
Although we had intended to visit Nore Dame, we gave up the thought when we saw the queue because we had a concert to attend that night. We opted to walk around the area instead which was quite pretty as well. Definitely many photos were taken. You could see all the gothic design elements that went into Notre Dame. No hunchback here though!!
When you come by Notre Dame, please be sure to give the external parts of the building a look. It's really pretty outside too!
After the walk round Notre Dame, we walked back to our accomodation and picked up the tickets to the night's concert that our host kindly printed out for us! She is such a lovely person!
Around 6 pm, we started our way over to Malesherbes metro station. The concert venue was ridiculously close such that I could not believe that I had already reached the location. Less than 5 mins walk from the metro, and we arrived at the Salle Cortot, which was a really initimate location for A New World, which is branded as being an intimate experience.
I was surprised that they chose to open with One Winged Angel because it was a ensemble set up and One winged Angel is a 'large' piece in the sense that it should typically be played by an orchestra or a rock band setup. However, just as Arnie Roth says, no FF concert can happen without One Winged Angel (Ya, you know all the poser FF7 fans) and so i guess it's great that they opened with it just to show us what the ensemble is capable of.
The ensemble was pretty good, though when Troia (FF4) was played, I got miffed at the cellist for what I felt was his screwing up of the piece. It was a cello / guitar duet, but I though a few spots were off for the cello.
I was also extremely pleased that they chose to end with The Red Wings from FF4. I can hardly imagine a concert ever getting closed by a FF4 piece cos FF4 is such a low profile installment of the Final Fantasy series. But it is my favourite. So I was preening in glee when it was played, and I think the ensemble was quite ok (apart from an annoying wind instrument).
And in a concert such as this, would you have ever considered the fact that there would not be an encore? IMPOSSIBLE! So the encore happened. Force Your Way from FF8. My second favourite FF!! This just keeps getting better. And so, I gave them a standing ovation, not because the ensemble played extremely well, but because they ended with The Red Wings and Force Your Way... and then they came up withh One Winged Angel again. Typical. But I like :)
And so, it was a lovely night in chilly Paris. Anything with FF can only be magical.
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