zz has helped Yunluo to postpone her check-in. When checking in, the aunt at the front desk thought Yunluo was here to book a room and said directly, "Sorry, no more rooms." Yunluo said that Yunluo was originally supposed to check in yesterday, but postponed it to today. The aunt immediately said, "Are you mrxxx?" Yunluo said yes.
She immediately gave Yunluo the room card without even looking at her passport. The hotel was booked online at Park Inn by Radisson, a four-star hotel. It was probably on sale at only RMB 385 per night. The moment Yunluo opened the door, she knew she had made a profit. This room was only RMB 385 per night, absolutely great value.
Another important reason for choosing this hotel is that it is the actual filming location of "Jason Bourne", Alexander Plaza, where Bourne captured a female CIA agent. It was cloudy, and although I wanted a sunny day, the scene was quite similar to the movie.
Just watch it. The one with a ball on it is the Berlin TV Tower, which can be seen from almost any location in Berlin. It is definitely a landmark of Berlin. In the movie, the female agent got on the yellow tram and was caught by Bourne. The next is where Bourne was shot when he was chased by the agents in Moss.
It was actually filmed in Berlin. Did you see the agent in the rearview mirror? He spotted Bourne on the road and immediately got out and shot him. Right here. It was exactly the same as in the movie - this is nonsense. After the killer fired the gun, he was discovered by the police.
The life buoy in the previous picture is still there. I wonder if it is the same one from that year. Today, Berlin held a cycling marathon. Countless men, women, young and old rode on the road. The traffic was blocked for a long time. But no one honked the horn. What a quality. There were many creative children on bicycles who were dragged out by their fathers to participate in the event.
Haha, there are roller skating experts. Policemen ride big motorcycles to escort the riders. Yunluo made an appointment to visit the Reichstag in the afternoon. So he walked west and visited the Victory Column and Brandenburg Gate. He passed by a building with a very German feel, but didn't go in. The Spree River. The dome church in the distance is the Berlin Cathedral.
On the way to the Brandenburg Gate, we passed the Humboldt Box. Some tourists rode bicycles that everyone could pedal on, which was super fun. This is the symbol of Germany: the Brandenburg Gate. Everyone has heard of the detailed introduction, so I won't go into details. The blue car behind Yunluo and the identical red car on the other side occupied the best angle to take pictures of the Brandenburg Gate.
Want to take a photo with the Brandenburg Gate while standing on the bus? Hey, give me some money first. Behind the Brandenburg Gate. Behind the Brandenburg Gate is Juneteenth Street, which leads directly to the Victory Column. There are large tracts of lush forests on both sides of the street. It used to be the hunting ground of the German emperor. During World War II, Berlin citizens used to cut trees here to make fires for warmth in winter.
Now the forest has been turned into a park. Many people are running in it. It is quite similar to New York's Central Park. After visiting the Victory Column, it was almost time to enter the Reichstag. In the history book of junior high school, there was the following photo of the Soviet army raising the red flag on the German Reichstag. In the afternoon, I made an appointment to visit the top of the Reichstag.
Prepare to go to the same angle to see it. Make a free reservation via email. After the reservation is completed, you will receive a confirmation letter, print it out, and show this confirmation letter and ID card when entering the visit. The picture below is a historical photo of the Soviet Red Army breaking through Berlin and climbing to the top of the Reichstag to plant the flag after capturing it. Yunluo also wants to take a photo from this angle.
When we got there, we found that the layout of the Capitol was symmetrical, and there were more than two identical sculptures. We could only take a photo roughly in the estimated direction. Maybe that was the angle the photographer took the photo from back then. Look at the sculpture on the right. Doesn't it look like the sculpture in the upper right corner of the old photo?
There is a square tower on each corner of the Capitol, representing the four states of the time. The glass dome on the Capitol. The dome is a steel and glass structure with a round hole in the middle of the top to collect rainwater for recycling. The Capitol provides free audio guides, available in Chinese.
Walking up the circular path inside the glass dome, the guide will automatically play the voice introduction when you reach certain positions, without pressing buttons. This is the round hole used to collect rainwater. On the way back to the hotel, I met an acrobat who asked passers-by to cooperate with his performance. It was very exciting and interesting.
He invited a mother and son to help him. He also asked the mother to put her hand on his buttocks. She kept shouting "mama, position!" Today, we mainly saw the Nefertati head on Museum Island and the Berlin Wall. The Berlin TV Tower is right next to the hotel where Yunluo stayed. It is the tallest building in Berlin and can be seen from anywhere in Berlin.
Berlin Cathedral. There are tourists everywhere, as well as many wanderers from Eastern Europe, jugglers and street performers. In short, there are a lot of people. When I visited the Abu Simbel Temple in Egypt, there was also a Hathor Temple next to it. The Hathor Temple was built by Ramses II for himself to meet Nefertati for the first time.
Nefertati's head is in a museum on Museum Island. The bridge connecting Museum Island is full of classical European architecture. This is one of the many museums on Museum Island. Yunluo first saw a photo of Nefertati's head in an art textbook in high school. Today I finally saw the original, but the museum does not allow taking photos of the statue.
Yunluo has visited the four major museums in the world. In comparison, Museum Island is not ordinary cuo (please read the second tone here, thank you), so Yunluo is too lazy to take too many photos. There are several lifelike bronze statues on the river bank opposite the Berlin Cathedral. There are three girls and one boy, with different poses. Yunluo will call this sculpture group "Three Girls and One Boy".
Haha, isn't it vulgar? Look carefully: it's really called "three women and one man". I'm also artistic. Personally, I think that if you come to Berlin and don't see the Berlin Wall, it's like you haven't been to Berlin. The Berlin Wall is on the beautiful Spree River. Its history is well known. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the government specially preserved a section, and many graffiti masters and painting masters came here to create freely.
Many of the works have political implications. There is a small stall next to the Berlin Wall selling brick fragments that fell from the Berlin Wall. Yunluo specifically compared the texture of the fragments with the Berlin Wall next to it, and felt that they were similar. So he bought a piece. This work vividly shows the scene when the Berlin Wall fell and East Berliners flocked to West Berlin.
A hand pushed others to climb over the Berlin Wall. "Brother's Kiss" is the most famous graffiti on the Berlin Wall. Yunluo walked along the Berlin Wall for a while but didn't find the graffiti. He walked a little further. He saw a vendor selling brick fragments of the Berlin Wall and just walked up to him and said, "hello, could you tell me where..." (Hello, please tell Yunluo where is...).
The handsome guy selling the goods directly asked "the kiss?" Yun Luo said yes, and he pointed in a direction. After a few steps, he found it. The painting next to Yun Luo is "Brother's Kiss", the artist is Vrubel of Russia. It is based on a real photo of Brezhnev of the former Soviet Union kissing the former East German leader Honecker. This is a historical prototype.
Brezhnev + Honecker. During Brezhnev's tenure, he liked to kiss male leaders of socialist countries. He even kissed them forcefully. This disgusted many foreign leaders. Some even gave flowers and kept their distance to avoid being kissed by him (what a disgusting old man).
The back of the Berlin Wall is also covered with graffiti and paintings. After watching the Berlin Wall, I went back.
I got up in the morning and took the Tegel Airport bus. I will fly to Paris today. Berlin's public transportation is very user-friendly: when it stops, the body of the bus will tilt down on the door side. It is convenient for passengers to get on the bus, and the body will return to horizontal after the door is closed. Waiting for the flight... Tegel Airport is very small, and it is only a few steps to each terminal and boarding gate, which is very convenient and fast.
While waiting for the flight, a German beauty sat next to her. She saw Yunluo sitting next to her. She trusted Yunluo very much and said to Yunluo, "Can you help look after Yunluo's clothes and luggage? Yunluo needs to go to the bathroom." Yunluo was stunned for a moment, because in China, this kind of thing could be a trick used by scammers to extort money.
But Yunluo suddenly recalled an incident in Washington last year: Yunluo was walking back from visiting the Capitol, and a girl ran past Yunluo. Suddenly, she fell to the ground with a "snap". Yunluo looked back and saw that she had fallen, and the itouch tied on her arm was thrown far away. This reminded him of many incidents in China where people were blackmailed after helping others.
She was muttering in her heart, "Should Yunluo help me?" While she was hesitating, two men helped her sit on the flower bed, and the other helped her pick up the itouch. Then they left. Yunluo came to her senses: This is America. Thinking of this, Yunluo said: Okay. Yunluo will help you watch. Then she went to the bathroom.
After coming back, she took a pen and wrote something. Unexpectedly, she took out a very old metal pencil case! ? ! Yes, a metal pencil case! This was something Yun Luo used many years before Christ. She said that this was something his father used. They cherish old things very much and don't like to replace them with new ones when they are old.
This may explain why ancient buildings in developed capitalist countries are well preserved. After coming to Germany, fdp's zz once instructed Yunluo to find out about the housing prices in Germany. Seeing that she was German, Yunluo asked this question. Her answer was within Yunluo's expectations. Germany was very similar to Yunluo and An Chuyu's situation. Housing prices soared, and housing prices in big cities were high.
It is also difficult for young people to buy houses. Haha, don't complain too much about the housing prices in China, it's the same everywhere. Soon we arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Follow the signs to the bus station and take the Air France bus line 4 to Lyon Train Station. It is very close to the youth hostel where Yunluo lives.
The following is a map of various bus and light rail routes from Charles de Gaulle Airport and Orly Airport to Paris. The cheapest is to take bus 350 or 351, which seems to cost less than 4 euros, but there are very few buses, and if you miss the next one, you have to wait a long time. Waiting for the bus. The ticket price is 15 euros. The small hotel in Paris is the most expensive one in Yunluo's European trip.
It costs more than 680 RMB per night, which doesn't quite fit Yunluo's purpose of traveling on a budget. Never mind, everything is expensive in Paris. It's not far from the city center, and at least it's a small single room, with privacy and quiet. When I thought of this, Yunluo felt relieved. I was very sleepy today, so I watched an episode of "Day Day Up" on our Mango TV on my phone and fell asleep.
Good morning, Paris! Today's mission is to visit the Louvre, Notre Dame de Paris, and the top of the Montparnasse Tower. The Seine River. Opposite is a police station, and the building is really majestic. It's like a castle. The east entrance of the Louvre. The iconic glass pyramid of the Louvre. Yunluo and An first met there. There is also a copycat at the entrance of the Window of the World in Shenzhen.
It's just a smaller version. A sneak shot of a white beauty. After waiting in line for nearly an hour, I finally entered the pyramid entrance. Countless people lined up to buy tickets at the ticket window, but almost no one used the automatic ticket machine next to it. I tried it with the idea of giving it a try. As a result, I successfully bought a ticket on it. The long line of people in the serpentine path was messy.
I watched Yun Luo leave. Okay, I won't accompany you anymore. I have to go see Mona Lisa before I get squeezed like a dog. Bye... As a result, when I arrived, it was already squeezed like a dog. The scene was exactly like what was written in the guide, peoplemountainpeoplesea. Forget it. I will watch "Mona Lisa" no matter how crowded it is.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
This time I came to the Louvre, not for anything else, just to see her face (if this is Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait, can it still be called a face? Okay, Yunluo is messy). There is a semicircular partition in front of the painting, and tourists cannot get close. There are three or four security guards next to it. Yunluo waited for a while before moving to the front to take pictures. After taking a few pictures, he quickly let the tourists behind take pictures.
It is said that no matter which angle you look at Mona Lisa, her (or "his") eyes are looking at you. I tried it and it was true. Yunluo walked around her from left to right and took several photos - she was really looking at you. It's amazing! Pictures speak louder than words: There are three treasures in the Louvre, except Mona Lisa.
It's the Armless Venus and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. I'm not particularly fond of the latter two treasures, but I can't help but take pictures of them. Just make do with them. Two years ago, Yunluo saw a "Shoe-carrying Venus" in a museum in St. Petersburg. Although it's a bit more vulgar, there's no suspense about the arms.
But the advantage is that the posture and expression are more natural. Yunluo likes it more - yes, that's right, Yunluo is just an ordinary person. Everyone goes to see the goddess of beauty Venus, and no one looks at the goddess of wisdom Athena. Athena is unhappy: OK, OK, Yunluo's goddess, you are as beautiful as her, Yunluo's favorite goddess is you. The favorite goddess of wisdom Athena.
Next is the third treasure: the goddess of victory. Yunluo is illiterate in art, but I really don’t think this broken statue is beautiful. Well, Yunluo doesn’t understand. Next is another cookie-cutter famous painting + sculpture. I am aesthetically fatigued, so I didn’t take too many photos. Gabriel and her sisters, author unknown Gericault’s work: "The Raft of the Medusa".
I have seen it in a high school art book. It describes a scene where several survivors of a shipwreck see a distant sail in the sky and desperately call for help. Did ancient European priests also put their palms together? It seems to have something to do with our Buddhism. Anyone who knows French history knows this person: Richelieu. Cardinal, cardinal.
He was once a prime minister. He was not only a great politician who ruled the country well and laid the material foundation for France to dominate Europe; he was also a skilled diplomatic expert who played with various countries in his hands. He was in power for 18 years, and his ability to maneuver and command the world was the best portrayal of him.
The largest battleship ever built by the French Army was named after him. Richelieu founded the French Academy, which is now considered the highest honor in French academia. Even Napoleon was proud to be a member of it. Napoleon had to indicate his title when signing all documents. After he was elected as a member of the French Academy of Mathematics.
Every time he signed, he wrote "Academician of the Academy of Sciences, Commander-in-Chief, xxx, xxxx", always writing the title of academician first. Another version of "The Last Supper" This time, the most seen thing is the royal furniture and interior, which is extremely luxurious. Compared with the ancient Chinese palace that Yunluo and An Chuyu met, the ancient European palace is completely worthy of the word "splendid".
More exquisite and well-behaved, while the palaces of China are more majestic, more imposing and bold. Crystal glass produced by French handicraft workshops. In the feudal era when mercantilism prevailed, this was an important product for France to export and earn foreign exchange. The dragon bed in Napoleon's living room. The problem is, the curtains are too thick, isn't it hot in summer?
Louis XIV, the "Sun King", was the first powerful absolute monarch of France. A monarch who was very good at playing two sides. The crown is probably a shield and helmet used by the king or general, with exquisite carvings and paintings on it. This is not a weapon, but a work of art. Yunluo has seen this kind of plate with snakes in it in the museum more than once.
Yunluo has seen it in the Hermitage, the Metropolitan Museum, and the British Museum. I didn't see it today, but I had a feeling that Yunluo would definitely see the same thing. Sure enough, I saw it right away. I'm asking someone who knows Western art to give me some advice: What does this plate with a snake mean? There are too many exhibits in the Louvre.
Yunluo looked around for a few hours, and almost finished looking at what he was interested in, so he left. Looking back, he was surprised that the queue was much longer than when Yunluo first came. Yunluo, who was just a small group of people, waited for half an hour, so it would take at least more than an hour for so many people. Before coming to France, +^+ said he wanted postcards.
Now that I have finished visiting the Louvre, I will go to the big souvenir shop next to it to buy postcards to mail. Yunluo went into the shop and asked where the post office was. The clerk said there was one in the Louvre. Doesn't this mean that Yunluo has to queue for more than an hour to mail it? No! +^+, please forgive Yunluo, I really don't have the energy to queue for more than an hour to mail the postcards.
Yunluo will stay in Paris later, and will go to Milan and Rome. There will be plenty of opportunities for you. Next, go to Notre Dame de Paris. Notre Dame de Paris is on the river island in the Seine River, not far from the Louvre, and it takes about ten minutes to walk there. When I read "Notre Dame de Paris" in elementary school, I didn't understand many plots, but later I understood them (you know). (To be continued...)