Nous sommes en Paris dans "Young and Happy" hostel. The chunnel ride was interesting, not very long under the channel at all. Nice scenery through the countryside of England and France. We survived buying subway tickets and finding our hostel with Emma's very broken french and Erich's helpful additions. The hostel is much better than reviews made it out to be (thanks Kim for the reassurance!)... it's very tall, but we are on the 2nd floor so the narrow staircase wasn't a problem. It is right in the Latin quarter, and once we arrived we walked to Notre Dam and then on to the Louvre, where under-26's get in free after 6:00pm on Fridays! Spent just over an hour, witnessing first hand the Mona Lisa and Venus Di Milo and other beautiful and often odd pieces of art. You know we're engineers when we spent time figuring out how a picture was hung rather than admiring the art!
First drops of rain this evening (actually, it poured and was a full on thunder storm). Had dinner down the street where Emma attempted to survive a bistro without eating meat - she survived by ordering 2 side dishes. Erich did his best to survive by having to eat a wonderfully tastey duck and garlic fried potatoes...life is rough.
We're hoping the weather clears up for some outdoor sight seeing.... we're also hoping somebody is reading our blog (there aren't any posts recently!).
A bien tot!
2 comments:
Haha, well, I'm happy that after all the anguish that finding a decent place to stay in Paris caused you , you seem relatively happy with the good ol' "Young and Happy." I think Laura and I ended up on the top floor while there, so we did have to trek up that stupid stair case with our packs . . . Anyway, I told you it was a pretty decent place! A few doors down there is a creperie, that when I was there anyway, had a crepe chef that would sing while making crepes, and bore a striking resemblance to Tim Robbins - he makes damn good crepes to try to find him!
this is sounding like the trip of a life! Great blog thanks. We read it any time we get access. We feel all caught up now from Portugal.
M+P xxxxoooo
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