17 July 2007

There and Back Again... A Hart Family Tale, Part 2 Paris

OK, Paris in 2 1/4 days is insane, but that is the time we had and what we did. We walked a lot, got rained on, but we saw some incredible things and I even survived the language difference. (For those unaware.. I have no language skills, either listening or speaking). We used the Metro for our travel when we weren't walking. Paris must have more art work and antiques than the whole US. We had to pick and choose what we saw. I'll try and spell things correctly.
We had a hotel about a 15 min. walk from the Eiffel Tower...which we could see the top of from. We were on floor 6 or in the US the 7th since in the rest of the world the Ground floor comes first. There was very SMALL lift which was better than 6 flights of spiral stairs. A very tiny room, but it worked well for us.
After getting from the airport to the hotel via bus and underground Metro we headed over to the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, we broke our new camera(very few Paris pictures, but a fair amount of video), got a little irritated with each other, and went to bed. We'd been up and traveling for almost 24 hours with a "bit" of sleep on the plane.
Over the next 2 days we saw Versailles, the Orsay, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower again(Really nice view from the top..Charles and Meg opted to walk up to the second
level while Lori and I went all the way to the top), Champs-Élysées, and more that my poor brain can't think of now. We saw of course, the Mona Lisa.. the crowd wasn't too bad either. The Venus de Milo, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, etc.
When we ate we avoided any chain type places...especially American. Our last
night we found a little Swiss place that was really good. A nice warm crepe in a cool drizzle taste even better than usual.
We left Paris for London via the Eurostar train which travels under the English Channel in the "chunnel". It was smooth, quiet, very fast, and the underwater part was basically a long tunnel.

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