Paris - Obelisk/Concorde/Tuilerie

Right at the end of the end of the Champs-Élysées stands the Obelisk, transported from Egypt, and extremely impressive looking. And, like many, many other French monuments, it's rather large, and phallic. I'll leave you to ponder that one.


_{Part 1 of: 'Me standing in front of large stuff'}

Surrounding the obelisk are two fountains from the same period, which (and not a lot of people know this) depict an ancient Egyptian game, played with fish, which worked much like Guitar Hero does today.


_{Star Power!}

Past this is the Place De La Concorde - the largest open space in Paris. It's not actually that impressive - it really does live up to its definition of 'an open space', with all the lack of drainage, lack of amusement and lack of interest that implies. Still though, if you're into large open spaces, and are for some reason unable to venture outside of metropoli, then this is certainly for you.

The Tuilerie gardens lie past that magnificent patch of ground, which are actually really cool. The hedges are great fun to play in, if you're bored, and it's a really nice relaxed place, which somehow manages to avoid the swarms of tourists milling about down the road, waiting to get into the Louvre.

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Part of the Paris series of posts.