HOW TO MEASURE TIME IN CENTIMETERS – FRENCH IMMERSION: DAY 4
We tried to make Les catacombes today, and everything was in place for a great success.
We exited the Metro at Denfert-Rochereau, only to find a line of more than 200 people.
What can you do to enjoy the wait – watch the video below for a creative approach.
Today: Unexpected pass-time at Les catacombes, a 10-centimeter long minute at Musée d’Orsay and a Notre Dame priest wearing Nike runners
(Read about our day 1, day 2, and day 3)
Where to find a 200-meter line, a 10-centimeter minute, and a priest who wears Nike
Watch this video to see how time, at Musée d’Orsay is measured in centimeters.
Pretty amazing to see it happening in front of your eyes.
Beautiful Rodin pieces in this museum, fantastic subjects for conversation in the museum as well as in their restaurant (their café viennois is overwhelmingly whipped and creamy – you’ll see mine in the next days – and we could hardly resist to ask the staff where we could find chairs like theirs for our kitchens).
Needless to say that we gave up on Les catacombes (watch the second video to see how we did it) after learning that a 200-meter line is about 5-6 hours wait – but we made a new friend there who was entertaining the more stoic guests.
After all this, we had a chance to go inside la Notre Dame, to save our dear René-Gustave from waiting in line with us tomorrow – after all he has the least patience with ‘touristic-y’ venues.
Not only did we listen to the Mass, but we had the surprise to see the priest proudly wearing a pair of Nike runners – quite a shocker given the occasion 🙂
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Photo credit: Marc Nouss
Well I guess it depends on what the wait is for. If it were something I paid money to do, I’d wait and if I paid lots of money, I’d wait as long as I had to. So it really all depends on what, where, how much, who, when and why. So I can’t really say.
Hey, Michelle, of course, but we can come with scenarios – not sure that, even if I had paid the $20, I would have waited for 5 hours. In any case, we didn’t pay in advance 🙂