vrijdag 29 juni 2007
My Paris trip - in point form
Monday 9th- Arrived in Paris at 1:30pm, taxi to hotel Ibis, lunch at Café Folstrum which faces the roundabout at Place de la Bastille.- Metro-ed to Place de la Concorde. Lots of pictures at the fountain and the obelisk.- Walked along the Champs Elysées and bought way too many souvenir thingoes.- Arc de Triomphe where, because it was Easter I think, they were having some sort of ceremony around the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier. Didn't climb the Arc coz mum wasn't up to it but already done it before so no big deal.- Eiffel Tower, where we waited in line for about 45 mins when they decided to close the top floor due to too many poeple so we decided to come back the next day.- Crossed the Seine to the Trocadero. Lots of pics of the fountain and a fantastic view of the Tower all lit up and sparkly - pretty.- Metro-ed back to Place de la Bastille, grabbed food and walked back to the hotel.Tuesday 10th- Got up rather late, left hotel around midday. Lunch at a nearby café.- Eiffel Tower. Waited in line for abour an hour forty-five before going up to thesecond floor and another 10 before heading to the top floor. Up there for about 30mins then waited another 20mins to get back down. Sheesh. Worth it though.- Early dinner then back to hotel to change.- Taxied to a tourist office where we took a guided bus tour around Paris and were dropped off at the Moulin Rouge. We saw the show Féerie which was FANTASTIC and got a ride back to the hotel which the tourist people. I bought a program for the show.- It was about 2:00am by the time we got back, ordered a lasagne coz after finishing the complementary bottle of champagne between the two of us at the show we were rather hungry. Got to bed around 3am.Wednesday 11th- Once again got up late. Wanted to get the bateau-bus to Ile de la Cité but ended up walking - not far and beautiful day.- Notre Dame, amazing cathedrale, absolutely huge. We went into the treasury - so much money goes into the place and there are still collection boxes around. If only one of those "relics" we sold to a museum, you'd have enough money to run a small country.- Lunch at a nearby café - The Quasimodo Café, heh.- Louvre Museum. Lots of photos around the building and the Glass Pyramid.- Saw the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo amoung lots of other things, walked the entire Grand Gallerie. I wanna read The DaVinci Code again now :)- After 2 hours had only walked two out of three wings and only one floor. Mum was complaining about saw feet but we walked the entire Ancient Egypt collection before leaving.- Dinner at a different restaurant at Place de la Bastille and then back to the hotel.Thursday 12th- Checked out at eleven.- Lunch at the same café from Tuesday morning.- Wondered a few shops then back to the hotel to pick up our luggage.- Taxied to Gare de Lyon for the three hour train ride back to Nîmes.Final Conclusion - I LOVE PARIS.
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gingerbread flavoured ice-cream? That's weird even for France.
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