Well fellow blog followers we FINALLY have found access to the internet, took a while!!!
After 20 hours of travelling we arrived in beautiful Paris last Sunday and hauled our exhausted selves to the hotel in La Defense, who on arrival advised us they didnt have a record of our booking but the kind sole that was on night duty booked us into a room pending liasing with his manager in the morning!
Morning arrived seems they found our booking and all was ok for us to stay very kind of them I thought!
Monday morning we decided to try an navigate the metro and take ourselves into the city, the walk from our hotel to the main metro line here takes us about 15 minutes not too bad, but for those that know how lazy I am, you would not believe you much walking I am doing!!! Suppose it counteracts the french food and wine we are drinking......
So first try at the trains took us about 1.5 hours to figure out as no one speaks any English FUN, although we did get it in the end and off we are (By the way we are now pros at the train)
First day we travelled into the main area and wondered around until we eventually found the Eiffel Tour we did get side tracked some by a lunch river cruise which was fab but we wont tell you how much we paid!!!
We then went to the Eiffel Tower and got in line to buy our tickets to the top floor (Danny you will be impressed took us less than 15 mins!)
Mum was a little dubious to go right to the top but trouper she is she did it and stayed away from the edge! We have great photos I will post those later when I can.
For the rest of the afternnoon we wondered around and then still full from lunch decided to skip dinner and have an early night.
Tuesday: We decided to take ourselves to the train station that we leave from on Friday to get the rail pass validated and just figure out how long it will take us to get there and how hard it is.
We then went to the tour place to ensure we knew were to go for the Moulon Rouge and wondered around the Opera area which was nice, word to the wise drinks in cafes VERY expensive cost me $8 for a diet coke!!!!!
Tuesday night we went off to the Moulon Rouge which was amazing much more than just girls dancing was a real show with comedy and acrobats was very good, the food was good as well and amazingly enough we met some Australians Surprise surprise..... They pack you in like sardines must have been at least 5000 people in the room for the show and when we left at least that waiting to go into the 11pm show.
Wednesday: Today we went to the louvre and on last count mum informs me we have walked close to 9km today ...OMG my feet and legs are sore!!!!!
It was amazing though but you cant see it all way to much to see, this arvo we went on a bus tour of the city well worth it as we got to see all the spots like Notre Dame, Pantheon Eiffel Tower, Opera House etc etc all in 2 hours was very good and we definetly needed to sit down for a while!!!
We are now off back to the hotel rest as I need a nana nap!!!!
Hopefully we will post again soon probably Friday maybe?? stay tuned
After 20 hours of travelling we arrived in beautiful Paris last Sunday and hauled our exhausted selves to the hotel in La Defense, who on arrival advised us they didnt have a record of our booking but the kind sole that was on night duty booked us into a room pending liasing with his manager in the morning!
Morning arrived seems they found our booking and all was ok for us to stay very kind of them I thought!
Monday morning we decided to try an navigate the metro and take ourselves into the city, the walk from our hotel to the main metro line here takes us about 15 minutes not too bad, but for those that know how lazy I am, you would not believe you much walking I am doing!!! Suppose it counteracts the french food and wine we are drinking......
So first try at the trains took us about 1.5 hours to figure out as no one speaks any English FUN, although we did get it in the end and off we are (By the way we are now pros at the train)
First day we travelled into the main area and wondered around until we eventually found the Eiffel Tour we did get side tracked some by a lunch river cruise which was fab but we wont tell you how much we paid!!!
We then went to the Eiffel Tower and got in line to buy our tickets to the top floor (Danny you will be impressed took us less than 15 mins!)
Mum was a little dubious to go right to the top but trouper she is she did it and stayed away from the edge! We have great photos I will post those later when I can.
For the rest of the afternnoon we wondered around and then still full from lunch decided to skip dinner and have an early night.
Tuesday: We decided to take ourselves to the train station that we leave from on Friday to get the rail pass validated and just figure out how long it will take us to get there and how hard it is.
We then went to the tour place to ensure we knew were to go for the Moulon Rouge and wondered around the Opera area which was nice, word to the wise drinks in cafes VERY expensive cost me $8 for a diet coke!!!!!
Tuesday night we went off to the Moulon Rouge which was amazing much more than just girls dancing was a real show with comedy and acrobats was very good, the food was good as well and amazingly enough we met some Australians Surprise surprise..... They pack you in like sardines must have been at least 5000 people in the room for the show and when we left at least that waiting to go into the 11pm show.
Wednesday: Today we went to the louvre and on last count mum informs me we have walked close to 9km today ...OMG my feet and legs are sore!!!!!
It was amazing though but you cant see it all way to much to see, this arvo we went on a bus tour of the city well worth it as we got to see all the spots like Notre Dame, Pantheon Eiffel Tower, Opera House etc etc all in 2 hours was very good and we definetly needed to sit down for a while!!!
We are now off back to the hotel rest as I need a nana nap!!!!
Hopefully we will post again soon probably Friday maybe?? stay tuned
3 comments:
How exciting! Have a great time Amanda! (still very jealous!) Belinda xxx
Hi Honey
glad to see you are having a great time, saw Marion yesterday and confirm that Whiskey is great and having a wow of a time - he may not want to come back - Marion is spoiling him rotten!!
Love
Nat
França... Tenho vontades de conhecer o Louvre!
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