Chateau De La Tour Chateaux & Hotels De France Chantilly

... was late... The Chateau de Raray was built by the Bouteiller family, which is known for being the site of Cocteau's "La Belle et la Bete" or, Beauty and the Beast. The only real aspects about this chateau that impressed me: lunch (be...our...guest...be our guest...and the service was the BEST! no kidding...it was amazing), and the statues...the statues kinda creeped me out, but they were interesting. I wasn't really impressed in the chateau because it reminded me of a country club...

... and he wanted to know all about the lights on the Eiffel tower. David explained that it lights up and Tommy wanted to see so we got to go on a little excursion and parked right in front of a really awesome spot watching the lights go nuts. Electricity: still working power socket Wireless status: still non existent. Considering standing outside nearby houses and trying not to be arrested for stalking Internet status: still 15 cents for 1 minute. Addiction: the twitching has begun.

... by the reality of having ot pay €13 for cocktails. Excuse me, it's not the pound that's drowning, ok ? They're from London, do they never go out there ? Or are £8 entrance fees to PUBS of all places after 11 p.m. plus the price of drinks really that much better ? If you want cheap, go to Prague or Budapest and order a beer. It's cheaper than water. Jér and I spent Sunday in Chantilly, a former residence of a former count, who was the closest cousin of a former ...

... around 7:30 am and decided to make my way down there. The line was just as long as the day before and there was still 30 minutes until it opened. If I wanted to see it I had to wait. I stood there and about 10 minutes before it opened. They cut the line in half and took the last half to other tower. Cool!!! I went from 300th in line to 20th. A 10 minute wait and I was flying up the tower. It was really incredible (I'm having problems with adjectives in ...

Before I continue about the rest of the week, I'll give you a run down on the "steps" we took. Mom was wearing a pedometer and told us how many steps we took for the day. I'll let you know when I did more than the official count :-)... So to catch up on that part we took 20,315 steps on Thursday with both of those walking tours... On to Saturday and our trip out to Versailles, this was May 31. We were up at 6am and off to the Pont de l'Alma metro ...

... Except, the walk up was via an insanely tight circular stairway. I have never heard so much huffing and puffing in my life from other visitors walking up. Every couple stories, more people would drop out and catch their breath in a doorway. Mid-way up, there was a cool exhibit where you could move a tiny replica Arc and zero in on a piece of detail work on a 3D model in front of you. Then the detail was projected onto a screen and explained (see photo). The view at the top was ...

... playing on my ipod, slower if my left hip is bothering me as it's been the past few weeks), and I noticed a woman walking towards me. She bent down to pick something up in front of her and I saw her examing it in the palm of her hand. "Excusez-moi," she began, thrusting her hand at me, "Regardez!" It's a gold band, probably a man's wedding ring. It had been lying there in the right bank along the quai for who knows how long. "Is it yours?" she asked me ...

... If we meet you tomorrow,I`m gonna cry;)...". Tim and his mum were coming back to London, where he`s studying so it was rather hardly possible to see them on the next day as I was heading back to Poland then, but with my luck to bump into people hell knew... Our next stop was Louvre Museum. Although I had seen the pyramides 4 years before at my first Youth Meeting organized by brothers from Taize, I had never been inside the museum and neither hadn`t seen the famous Mona ...

... There was also a tour of Paris before we did everything which showed us lots of highlights of the city. Tres bien. Lots of pics. We took a bus to Notre Dame and that was really cool too. There were virtually no lines anywhere, we got in really easily. It's such a beautiful church. And it's on the middle of an island. Siiick. It was a crazy ride to Notre Dame though. The Metro was being worked on so they made ...

... since five in the morning. Stopping for food. And I learn what the doorman was talking about. Fifteen euros later, I have a simple ham sandwich and a beer in my belly. But it hit the spot as it raped my pocketbook and I was ready to go looking for the nightlife. And my walk became longer and longer. It took me to the Louvre, which was closed for the night, and eventually down the Champs d'Elysees, which seems to be the trendiest and busiest area of Paris at night. So, I'm ...