Champs-Elysees Paris

Bonjour! Our last day in Prague was pretty uneventful. We went only to see the Mucha museum. Mucha was a Czech artist who began painting young (around the year 1900) and wound up being sent to the Munich Fine Arts Academy by one of his customers (a Count) who had his entire house painted. The art we saw was created on canvas by layering …

"Avec vous appris de nous émission?" or that's at least what we thought we heard as we wandered in a men store on Champ Élysée. Unable to understand we asked if the lady spoke English, to which came the response, "I thought I was speaking English". Slightly embarrassed we continued our shop, picking up some cheap wool knits for the …

Today we all slept in and met up with Ham at 1pm for a day of cycling. As we woke up so late, we hadn't eaten any breakfast so first off we headed to a local supermarket for some brunch. We ended up buying baguettes and making our own sandwiches. We also bought some apples and apricots, the latter of which were so delicious I had to take a photo of …

I'll keep it brief to start -

The first week has been up and down. A lot of walking, a lot of getting lost and a LOT of time on the Metro... too much time - but that's what happens when you don't really know where you're going.

I do find the subway system here a bit confusing - and the French do not seem to be huge fans of …

We started our day in paris by stopping by a patisserie for a quick bite to eat, then it was off to the museum d'Orsay for Laurie and a bit of walkabout for Bill. We walked to the museum and were in the plaza where the museum was. There was a news stand selling tickets for the same price as the museum, so Laurie bought one to avoid the ticket line …

Ooh La La. We flew over the dazzling lights of Paris for the next stage of our journey. First impressions are Paris is HUGE! I mean like properly BIG! We struggled to comprehend the physical size of the joint.Australia could learn a thing or two about taxi's in Europe. 1) Mercedes and VW are the quality of vehicle you can climb into 2) drivers are …

Nachdem wir uns gründlich ausgeschlafen hatten, ging es vom Hotel aus zu Fuß Richtung Innenstadt.
Am Place de la Bastille vorbei erreichten wir nach ca. einer Stunde durch die belebten Straßen der Millionenstadt die Rue de Rivoli, direkt gegenüber des Louvre.
Dort buchten wir bei "Paris Vision" eine Stadtrundfahrt incl. Schiffstour auf der …

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Ahhh Bonjour Mademoiselle!
Finally, I go to see the beautiful Paris, and I get to do the tour with Flo!

Straight after work I took the tube/bus/plane/train to meet Flo so we can spend the weekend together in Paris.

To be honest, the …

An early start today so that we coud be at the Musee de Louvre at opening time.
We headed out to a fabulous little bakery and grabbed some croissants and pain au chocolat. OMG! SO GOOD!
Then we were off to the secret entrance to the Louvre at 8:55am. Turns out a lot of people knew the secret, and the line was about 100 people long. But that …

Our mission this past weekend was to hit all of the amazing landmarks in Paris, France with limited time.. and the four of us girls definitely succeeded. We took a 2 hour flight out of Florence early Friday morning so we only had time to hit Notre Dame that night before an awesome dinner and a night out on the town. With only a few hours of sleep …

... the standard rate. $149 euros for us... WooHoo! After checking in, we head downstairs and enjoy a leisurely stroll along Champs-Elysees. Window shopping, checking out the amazing car store displays ... and then our stomachs begin to growl. Janice's ...

... Garden watching the sun goes down. Next to the garden it was the Place de La Concorde. At around 6 pm, we came to the Champs Elysees. After that, we had dinner in a restaurant called "Pizariano", and after dinner, we went to the Arc of Triumph. We ...

... boat was less hot as it had all the roof windows open. We sailed along the Seine towards a stop close to the 'Champs Elysees' where we strolled a bit along the boulevard. For dinner we found a little restaurant called 'Le Sommelier'. First we found ...

... and bikes go by with sirens wailing. Are they on their way to a bank robbery? Are they escorting the President of France? We can't help suspecting that they are just having fun. The policemen in the speeding vehicles are almost invariably lolling back ...

... Now, we were museumed out. Tina had the day off and so we met up with her and headed towards the famed Avenue des Champs-Elysees, a wide and crowded boulevard full of high-end shopping and cafes, all leading up to the mad-roundabout around the Arc de ...

... halfway down the boulevard and walked up towards the Arc. On the way we stopped at the cheapest place to have a drink on the Champs Elysees, the Quick (French version of McDonalds). I just refuse to pay 5 Euro or more for a 25cl bottle of water. At the ...

... /pers value, which we got free - as the hotel reminded us at least 3 times!) before deciding to walk down the Champs-Elysees, eventually reaching the Musee de L'Orangerie.  We had been attracted to the building in our walk yesterday (entering ...

... at the pharmacy were very nice. We did a lot of walking all over -- in the neighborhoods, down the Champs-Elysees, and other random places. We decided that Paris really is a lot like New York in that you can walk just about everywhere, and it's ...

... we came up top but I was really hyped and could walk even more. It was a really nice view Once we got down we walked the Champs Elysees all the way to the Louvre -- a VERY long way ... miles! But along the way we stopped at some souvenir shops and a ...

... Kat and I have been to Paris before and visited most of the big attractions (Le Louvre, Climbed Le Toure Eiffel, Strolled the Champs-Elysees etc) we decided on getting out to the Palias Versailles before Rich and Jules arrived. As you can no doubt see ...