Is a huge garden (a couple of gardens actually) in Paris with a little zoo - the oldest in Paris and a greenhouse type botanical garden bit - that unfortunately we didn't go to because Mr. Special isn't very keen on things like that and it was about 8 euros or so.... (although it looked nice on the outside! :()
But we did go to the zoo (was a bit expensive I think... 13 an 9 euros) and that started with a whine because Mr. Special wanted to get the student price too but for some stupid reason Aber student cards don't have a date on them making them useless when you want to prove that you're a student :( I can use my ISIC card + my Corte student card is still valid so happy days for me :)
This really is a nice little zoo. Usually when you visit a zoo there's sooooo much space for visitors and you think, god did I wear the right shoes? But here it was just little trails under the trees and between the enclosures (which I think had enough room for the animals - nothing like the Tallinn zoo - the old cages for bears etc). So homely and cute :) There was a great variety of animals and you could even enter the nursery bit which at that time had two baby birds on display... they looked so funny, one had huge legs for the rest of his body :D That's something you don't usually see :( Another highlight was a goat who was standing over a duck - best friends maybe? Because the goat did move a bit and when he did he raised his leg ever so slowly and gently in order not to step on the ducky under his belly :)
After that we walked through the free garden part, that I think was quite poorly managed :( where's the gardener????? Every plant had a tag saying what it is but it looked like they've been left to grow themselves and weren't as orderly as I'd expected + they looked like they didn't have enough water... The little ponds with frogs living in them were a nice touch but the water was soooooooooo dirty (standing water that hasn't been changed in ages probs...). Who lets their garden get to that stage? I don't know maybe it's supposed to be like that, didn't impress me though...
Next we half-accidentaly found the National History museum that had a temporary night exhibition we wanted to see :) It was all in darkness, you could learn about the moon and stars, dream phases, lullabys see stuffed animals who come out in the night, smell their scents, hear their sounds etc, see a children's cartoon about monsters who hide in your closet :) and a tiny tiny (rather pointless in my opinion) corner was dedicated to vampires and werewolves.
Then continued on to the National History Museum which I found was completely boring... I'm not a big fan of museum anyway I have to add, but what the hell is this? Did I miss something? Just stuffed animals scattered around the place... and some information about something on the walls every now and again... (too tired to read). Then there was one room dedicated to already extinct or animals in danger - but that was completely dark with some lights going on and off randomly - how am I supposed to see anything? We wer probably too tired by then to fully understand and enjoy that experience...
Going home we saw a minor accident (Police was there to investigate) on a one-way street that had paralyzed he traffic on it. I can just imagine those poor souls in the cars waiting to get through - you couldn't turn back anymore. There were about 30-40 cars.... and a couple of buses... Some assholes (who couldn't obviously see why they were stuck there) blowed their horns every now and again - like that's going to change anything...
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
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