Auberge Des Alouettes Barbizon

... I don't know what we will do because of no Amsterdam... Sorry Michaela, I'm not going to be able to find your shoes. The next morning we slept in. Stayed at Agathe's house most of the day and watch Bowling for Columbine, the Michael Morre Film. Agathe showed me the helmates her grandfather and great-grandfather used in both WWII and WWI, and their dog tags. This was really interesting for me. The leather inside the helmates smelled ...

... of burger paddies we have. But in France, they go all out on their cheese. My burger was special and cost more because it had 3 different kinds of cheese on it. After dinner we walked around the Latin quarter for a while, watched some of the street performers and enjoyed the lively atmosphere. Then to celebrate my last in Paris, we went to the store, purchased a ...

I am back from my day trip to Barbizon and Vaux le Vicomte! This morning I went to the Marmottan museum which is a nice little museum mostly of Monet in the 16th arrondissement. I didn't have much time to look through the musuem before I had to leave to get to the meeting place for the excursion. I was able to see everything though. Monet is not in general my favorite artist because he is very repetitive. He paints over and over again on the same ...

... After checking into our tiny hotel in the ...

... view of the Opera house right next to the shopping mall, but the view point to see it was on the roof of the mall and the Opera house was right next to us. The ride from LA Havre was about 2 hours each way (there and back). It would have been nicer if it wasn't raining but you know we can't do much about that now can we? C'est La vie!

... the euro--your wallet is sooo full of coins). Instead of stealing it like the stereotype of the metro, people dropped to their hands and knees and helped her retrieve every last centime. You can tell the metro regulars because they don't have to hold onto the pole, whereas I had to clutch it every time we moved! Also they're the people who have the "metro stare" down, which is what I call it when you pick a place to look and just kind of zone out...there's nothing to see out the ...

... some blood and guts and gore. We stopped off at a brasserie for an afternoon pichet of vin rouge, as you do, and then traipsed around in the rain for a bit after that unsuccessfully trying to locate an internet café, another faux pas on the part of our lonely planet last updated 2003. Or maybe it was ours, we really should have updated. We admitted defeat and headed home early praying the sun would come out tomorrow. The next day we woke up to some promising sunshine. We ...

... friends and have a few drinks; (there is a beer called maens pills over here - dont know if it is the same as Pills at home but i like it). Everyday wed both wake up around mid day, make it to the city in the arvo; it gets dark at 4:30, then the rest would become night seeing. It was great. One day we headed to a big cemeterary with Fionas friend Jade. Whenever i said Jades name she didnt understand me because the french dont say jade they say juadee. We went to this place because ...

... and went back to Montmartre and got some subpar french onion soup at a corner bistro. LAME Soup. Day 2: Woke up rested in a bed for once and headed right to the Eiffel Tower. It´s an impressive sight but its brown, not black, pictures lie. We cued up in a 15 minute line to take stairs to the first and second decks. It wasn´t very difficult (700 steps) and the 360 view was lovely. Don´t know how else to say it without pictures, but we´ll be home soon to explain. There were ...

... some cool concept cars. For lunch we had a try of Quick, which is the french equivalent to Mcdonald's. Its funny because it is practically exactly the same as Mcdonald's. The french really do hate using English. After that we went to the Arc De Triomphe. The Arc was built in Napoleon's time so that when he and his soldiers were victorious they could celebrate and walk through the arc. Unfortunately napoleon died before he could try it out but his body got ...