Au Palais Gourmand Paris

... dont have any shelter over them. We popped into a bar/cafe type place for a beer
but I was misunderstood and we ended up getting seated in the dinner section so we figured
we would eat and drink there. We werent that hungry so we shared a croque-monsieur (yummmm) and some french fries. All up our two beers, some fries and a toasted sandwich cost us about $50!!! ouch. Dinner was directly opposite the moulin rouge and after dinner it stopped raining so we jumped out and ...

... drank beer. Not a bad way to spend half an hour of the tour!
It was here we gained a fan. This funny looking older man was taking photos of us and our bikes while we sat, which we thought was funny but didn’t really think much of it. What was funnier was when we got to our next stop the Alexander Bridge and we posed for a group photo. Our guide had climbed the rail and was taking photos for everyone and who should climb the rail behind him?! It was one of the funnier ...

... are staying in the 16th arrondissment, an area we haven't seen in previous trips to Paris. Between the Bois de Boulogne and Maison Radio France. A fairly well heeled residential area. Having some time in the afternoon we walk for the final time in Paris. Across to the Bois de Bologne, dodging the runners around the lake and down Avenue Foch to the Arc de Triomphe. Avenue Foch is enormously wide, it has quite substantial strip parks down either side ...

... to the river, across to the Isle de Cite and to Notre Dame... through the Latin Quarter and St. Germain and on to the Eiffel Tower - lit up in blue for the Christmas season. We stopped off to check out the Christmas lights along the Champs Elysee on our way back for dinner. Dinner was the obvious highlight for me of Paris - as it has been on my previous visit. This time Tamara had chosen a fantastic, tiny little cafe in Marais neighbourhood - a pleasant walk from our ...

... and 1 from Armidale and a Kiwi that couldn't speak French. Aft** a couple of relatively expensive be**s the rain had subsided so we headed back to our hotel. We made our second trip to the cool little restaurant a couple of doors down this time we shared an entree of scollop t**rine which was just sensational. Chuong had this awesome Lamb dish it was hard to get the pieces of lamb to stay on your fork it was that soft. Tomatos actually taste like ...

... on the plane were pretty good (free wine can't be beat). The French are weird. If there is a way to make something inefficient, difficult, and just plain head scratching the French will find it. We land at Charles de Gaulle airport in a Boeing 777, which is a large state of the art jetliner only to exit the plane down a flight of stairs and ride a bus to the terminal. Everything is small, small airport, small cars, small bathrooms, and even small ...

... This is a really upscale store in a really upscale area. It was neat to see the store, although I would never be able to afford anything! I came home and am now checking my emailing and uploading pictures from the day for this entry. I plan on going home and getting ready for tomorrow before turning in. This week has gone by really fast--I can't believe tomorrow is Friday.

... they were forcing me to spend a Friday night in a city completely foreign, and thus intriguing, to me. Enter Sarah. A lovely Genevoise friend of Lital's, who is an intern living in Paris and absolutely wonderful. After waiting for three hours for British Airways to finally get a small leaf of paper that made it possible for Air France to issue me a new ticket home, I was sent to a ****** hotel on the edge of nowhere that I ...

Salut !! Jees Blue - I'm knackered mate! Well it's 7pm on Saturday, my last day in Paris before hitting the EuroStar to London (leaving 10.15am and getting there midday - See you soon, Kermie, Bel, Jasper n Jade?) Yesterday was FULL-ON. After attempts to get my Paris pass into all the cool places and only getting an answering machine I was kinda ticked. I got my bus pass fine and have been using that to its full extent. As I was wandering around one of the ...

... Then Le Tour Eiffel. Later that day I hung out with Philippe again until everyone came home. I caught up with my friend Thomas, whom I haven't seen in 5 years. We had a great dinner with their family. That night I got an awesome night of sleep too (from fighting the jet lag all day). I woke up to Thomas telling me the concert was on. And it was! Him and his friend had started a ...