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Paris: Sights

Tour Eiffel Notre Dame Arc de Triomphe Metro Sainte-Chapelle ...

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Paris: Museums

Rodin at the d'Orsay—that light makes me want to gaff a movie! Gorgeous and it made all the difference Vincent Van Gogh's The Church at Auvers, sometimes called the church with no doors. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking piece about Vincent's relationship with religion. He wanted to be a priest (like his father) but found the church inaccessible despite attempting that path. Eventually he...

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Paris: Château de Versailles

Still not processing how massive Versailles is—it was important to me to come here because Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette was one of the first movies I ever remember having a deeply profound effect on me as an audience member. Sofia's portrayal of Marie has stayed with me because it was so humanizing, unlike so many other accounts and opinions I'd heard previously.  ...

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London

Home Stretch

I can't believe that I'm wrapping up my last weekend in the UK today. It feels like I've been here forever and yet like I just got here yesterday. All at the same time. I'm sad to be leaving but I'm also incredibly excited to go home—it turns out that frolicking around London is fun (and I'm so lucky to be able to...

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