Acacias De Ville Paris

Saturday night was Nuit Blanche. It is once a year when museums, churches, parks and pools stay open until 7a.m. Two of my roommates, a couple of friends and I met up with some of Aleksandra's friends and took the Montmartre path, one of several planned paths that pass by different events. The city was packed. There were bands playing all over the city, including at the Sacre Coeur. At the Hotel de Ville, about 30 people were playing a life-size video game with lights. (See the picture, its h...

Did not wake up as early as I wanted to but I discovered through reading my guide book (Rick Steve's The Best of Europe) that most of the museaums are closed on Tuesdays. I went and got lunch at a McDonalds and got to sit in the patio and look at people. By the way, it turns out that my hostel is nearby Pigalle (American soldiers used to call it "Pig Alley"), the red light district. Moulin Rouge is on that street and there are many sex shops. It can be a bit intimidating walking by at night b...

Bonjour de France mes amies et ma famille! I am safely in Rennes and beginning my life à la Française. However, before I begin the marvelous events of only the last two days, I will quickly post some information about my 3-day orientation in Paris. I wrote most of it while we were in still Paris. It is the "We did this and then this" but, you kind of have to when you are too tired to really ponder upon what you've done. :) Enjoy! I am apologizing in advance for any spelling errors. I seem to ...

Here I am again...experiencing the Parisian life for the second time around. This time I must say is quite different. Amsterdam ended in a brilliant evening with Urok and Karin, Urok the girl I met in Barcelona, and Karin the girl I stayed with that I met on the train to Germany. The next morning I woke up early and went to the Anne Frank house, so glad I did, it was truly an experience. The way the place is set up really makes you think about the time the family was in hiding and what they w...

As soon as I found out there was an ice rink on the Eiffel Tower I had to go. I didn't care how small it was or how much it cost. The fact it was included in the price of a climb to the first floor did make even more attractive. There was also a good chance the rink in front of the Hotel de Ville would still be open so I was really really excited! Mum had been reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, when she was visiting last year and had left it for us. It presented some interesting theories...

Things we've seen: - Les Champs Elysees - L'arc de Triomphe - La place de la Concorde - The Eiffel Tower (how could we not ?) - Trocadero - L'ecole Militaire - Montmartre and Pigalle - Sacre Coeur - Moulin Rouge - Le Chat Noir cafe - Galleries Lafayette - L'opera garnier - Le musee de quai Branly (this is an indigenous art museum which was set up with the help of some Australian Aborigines. We waited TWO HOURS...IN THE RAIN...WITHOUT ANY SORT OF RAIN PROTECTION to get inside - now THAT'S comm...

Hi all my apologies in advance for the french keyboard which does my head in so no touch typing here. Well kris and i have been in paris for 5 days now and we have managed such sights as the sacre cour which we climbed up for a spectacular view over paris, le lourvre where i finally got to see the ruebens room which i have been waiting - years to return to see, musee rodin and his pretty garden of sculpture,notre dame, the tour eiffel, napoleans tomb, versaille, where we met a couple of ameri...

Last night Mum and I coaxed the kids out for ice cream.  Not just any ice cream.  A small street seller at the apex of a cobbled street across from Notre Dame cathedral ... just past the manicured gardens and a small bridge over the river Seine. We had just spent the better part of two days at Disneyland and were numb with exhaustion.  Weather had been reasonably kind - overcast the first day and warm the second -  luckily the forecast rain didn't eventuate.  Ticked off all the things you do ...