Paris February 2006
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This weekend we took advantage of my mother being here to look after the boys and took the Eurostar over to Pars to meet up with old friends.
Friday
- We took an early Eurostar and arrived in Paris around 1pm.
- We met up with our friends at our hotel at 2pm and took the Metro to the Champs-Elysees (FDR stop) and walked up to the Arc De Triomphe and went to the top for some great views.
- Then we took another metro to the Eiffel Tower and watched Paris in daylight through sunset and night.
- Afterwards we learned about ‘The Book’, our friends’s infallible guide Lonely Planet Guide as we were guided us to a restaurant Victor Hugo Etoile – which wasn’t open yet and pretty expensive. So we just walked around the circle and found another bistro and had a long, lovely meal.
- After dinner we went back towards our hotels.
Saturday
- In the morning we met our friends for breakfast and then headed to Montmarte to first see Sacre Coeur and then the art market behind it, then the windmills ( where ‘The Book’ was both amazing, and weak at finding one of the two ‘moulin’ ).
- Then we had a drink across from the Moulin Rouge.
- Afterwards we headed over to the The Catacombs (stop Denfert-Rochereau) and walked the mile underground and saw the millions of skeletons moved there over 150 years ago in an effort to clean-up the Paris cemeteries. It was pretty grim and hard to believe how many generations of people that represented.
- After the underground, we walked around Les Halles area and had a drink in a cafe.
- Then we went to the Palais Royale, near our hotel and found a great place to eat, about half an hour before they were ready… so we had a drink there and talked.
- Then home to bed.
Sunday
- We met our friends for breakfast, and they headed to the airport.
- We then walked over to Les Halles and bought some food to take home.
- Then we wandered over to Ile de Paris and Notre Dame and bought some presents for the boys.
- It was drizzling the whole time, so we checked out of the hotel and went over to the Louve for a couple of hours.
- Then we had a great lunch in a Cafe we knew from our last trip.
- Finally we headed to Gare du Nord and home by 8pm.
Great trip.
Comments
That is so cool! I need to go there!
John on 2006-02-24 18:19:10 +0000Add a comment