When my wife and I got a chance to go to musee d'orsey in Paris there was a beautiful manual clock on show. There was this annoying influencer standing about 15 ft in front of it and not letting anybody get closer. She would constantly whine that they were in her shot.

I walked right up to the mechanisms of the clock to inspect it while she just yapped at me and my wife laughed and laughed and laughed.

Best experience in Paris by far.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao that honestly sounds delightful! Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your trip too!

Tangentially, did you get a chance to catch a performance of the string quartet that plays in Sainte-Chapelle cathedral? If you’re at all into that style of music, it’s one of the coolest experiences I have seen like that, and I cannot recommend it enough. The cathedral itself is gorgeous, the acoustics are absolutely breathtaking, and the quartet is like crazy talented. Can’t recommend that enough.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We sadly did not get to take that in. But the second chapter of the story is how two canadians visiting paris brought covid to basel switzerland, and caused a whole company campus to close. All while ending up trapped in .ch for ten months with only two suitcases...

But that chapter is for another post.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow… that sounds like it would have been murderously expensive…

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It ruined us, financially. But the story is ours forever.