De Cabourg Paris

... the Parisians decided not to put any lines on the road. What results is criss crossing cars honking and following odd French round about rules (giving way to the cars entering?? merging into the centre only to cut across traffic again to exit?? Thats just stupid.) Well whatever logic they were following, it has lead to about 1 accident every 30 minutes. The famous Champs Elysees boulevard was quite magnificent, and lined with expensive shops and showrooms ...

... Notre Dame, City Hall, the Musee D'Orsay, and Concorde Square.<br><br>-A bunch of us went to a bar called the Frog and Princess somewhere near the Latin Quarter where some other kids from DU studying in Paris and Rome met up with us. If I had chosen to study in Paris I'd be broke in a month; the beer was sooooo expensive everywhere!<br> <br>August 24<br>-After breakfast, we all had to jump back on the buses for a sightseeing tour of Paris. The tour guide not only highlighted the ...

... ticket place in the downstairs level. I found the place and again the lady said she didn&#8217;t speak much English, but we had no problems communicating. Since I had forgotten to bring the visa I bought the voucher with, we had a little difficulty but she was eventually able to find the information and gave me my ticket for Disney. It was indeed a one day two park pass. Score! I guess with my limited French and the beloved Babelfish I can make ...

... We headed instead back to the 1st district to look in Les Drapeaux de France, a shop specializing in tin soldiers, tin bicyclist, tin Tin Tin characters, tin everything. Unique and run by a woman who helps paint the figures herself and very, very helpful. Following a quick lunch, we crossed over to the Ile de la Cite where lies the cathedral of Notre Dame. Sun drenched in the late afternoon, with a full chorus of the famous named bells, it was everything imagined from ...

Babelfish does the worst job at translating into French... Hence the shoddy grammar in the title (for those who can actually read it). So, I have a bit of ground to cover, seeing it's now Friday, and my last proper update was on Tuesday morning. You're going to have to bear with me and my inevitable spelling errors - French keyboards take a bit of getting used to. Anyway, Tuesday afternoon I headed up to Windsor castle. I've been before, but not for many a moon. In any case, when I left ...

... the end of the line. The truth is that when those things are not what you need to be happy, they just make you more frustrated, they make you feel guilty because despite everything you have got you feel still unhappy. I have just come back from what I will surely describe to my friends as a fantastic weekend in Paris. The weather was beautiful, the city...well, it's Paris, I have had a couple of massive nights out where I did get ...

Have spent a wet and rainy day mosey-ing around Paris. Started the day at another market which we found by accident not far from our hotel. Bought some yummy danishes and bananas for breakfast using our very limited French. Have found most Parisians to be quite accommodating - most will speak english when they realise how hopeless our French is! Keeping with the food theme ...

... photos than I could even need, but it's just too grand to pass up. There are still clouds in the sky, but there are moments when they break enough to cast a beam of light on one part of the city and it makes for some great images. On the way down we take the stairs as well. I learn that there are 668. We went up AND down that many stairs. I've been doing a lot of walking and climbing loads of ...

... surprised with Monaco... don't know what we expected but it is quite tiny and very built up with high rises...maybe we were expecting more giant villas built into the cliffs rather than high rise apartments. It reminded us of the Gold Coast. We drove through the narrow roads in Misty was a bit hair raising but we managed to do it without causing any damage and also got to drive part of the road that forms the Grand Prix Track (Misty performed beautifully even though her top speed is ...

... a lifetime building up the pyramids in his mind until it's the size of a mountain, but when he finally arrives, it doesn't measure up and the Sphinx seems downright puny, it's head malproportioned to its body. The Sagrada Familia, on the other hand, was absolutely the least disappointing thing of my life. I had only vaguely heard of it before, but I wandered toward it because I had read there was something cool in that general direction ...