Citea La Defense Place Charras Paris

... he would get me in the morning. I considered sleeping in the station until I saw a strange man with his mangy dog go into the photobooth and take multiple pictures with his dog then linger around the station. The cold winds ate right through my clothes. I paced back and forth. Okay I decided I would cross the street to the hotel there and just pay whatever I needed to to get a room. It was 40 euros not so bad, so I went to my room and cried. Traveling alone is fun but very ...

... during all the rain that we were experiencing. There were also some statues and inscriptions that symbolized the French&#8217;s triumph over their enemies. <br><br> <br><br>After seeing this and witnessing the weather take a turn for the worse, we decided to head back to the hostel. <br><br>Over there we just hung out for the rest of the night and walked around the neighborhood a little bit.

... walked down the street looking for the Metro so we could go to Hotel des Invalides to see the tomb of Napoleon. We couldn't quite see where to go so Jennifer decided to ask the guy holding the sub machine guy LOL. He gave us perfect directions and we found the Metro finally. We took it to the stop closest to Hotel des Invalides but when we got off decided to have lunch at what turned out to be an outstanding brasserie - Le Brasserie Richard. The food was ...

... day today! (Oh what a life!) Because he uses English at his job everyday, he has a much better understanding of more abstract concepts people discuss in English which provides much needed mental stimulation. One can only speak in broken sentences for so long before it starts to become semi-permanent! The house I am living in is similar to the ones described above. It is a 3 level house and the basement is the garage, laundry and my suite. It ...

... Where am I, Who Is I, What Is this I doing? Right now 1/12/2008 Im sitting im in Nina's Parents house in Hadricourt (for those of you who dont know.. Nina is the love of my life, and the person with which i am grateful to share the past year and a half of my life) AND - The house is empty.. BECAUSE - Ninas Lebanese Grand mother passed away in the ripe age of 95 a week ago. And Nina and all here family flew away on a magic carpet with metallic ...

... slip, slopped, slapped" so we weren't little lobsters ourselves. Next we walked through the Place De La Concorde, which is between the end of the Champs Elysees and the start of the gardens leading to the Louvre. Huge obelisk here - a gift from Egypt in 1831 and quite old at 3,300 years! Even the square itself was laid out in 1775! Makes us feel very young and uncultured as Aussies... which of course is pretty much true! Onwards through the ...

... in a place called Poissey. She was so lovely and basically gave us our own guided tour of Paris. Between her broken English which was actually really good and my broken French and with Adam chipping in with the odd "oui" every now and then we managed to get along just fine. The three of us decided to visit Notre Dame which is just another one of those times where you have read so much about a place that to actually stand there felt very surreal. We climbed to the ...

... we had been up like 38 hrs, with like 3 hrs sleep...and tons of walking. we ended up missing our stop on the train, and ended up like super far out of the city...the train went a while before it stopped...so that sucked. like 2 hurs later we got our bags, and finally got to the lady's house with th beds around 130...but she never had given us a key...so more waiting until someone came down to open the door. finally 230pm we went to sleep. we were crazy ...

... in it. Leaving the Louvre via the metro was where we ran into the getting stuck adventure. We had just slid our tickets through the machine and were walking to the platform when the gate to the platform started to come down. That was a little weird, so we turned around to go back and that's when we noticed the gate to the station entrance had also dropped. So there we were, with about three dozen other poor people, trapped in between the entrance to the platform and the exit to the ...

... people we met were in the metro stations and if i had to work in a booth their all day I'd probably be pretty grumpy too! Tried out the local French cuisine including a delicious Royale with cheese :) we both bought endless amounts of crepes as well.