Hotel Du Petit Louvre Paris

... King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (and 1300 of their aristocrat friends and associates) to their fate. The French people, at the time, thought that Louis and his ilk, were a bit to imperious. So, they decided to reduce them in stature, by about one foot, starting at the top. The process involved a Guillotine, located on this site, and three hard working people. One person operated the blade, pulling it to the top , then letting it fly. Another manned the ...

... to return to go up the towers at night but they closed half an hour before we arrived, nevermind, We spent a whole day in the Louvre which I was very happy about, incredible museum even though it was rammed with tourists. The best day in Paris was probably the day we did nothing at all, we wandered around bought some lunch sat in a park to ...

... tourists here, I have encountered about a handful of screaming/irate French people who like to scream and yell on the metro or streets to anybody who listens, and the chocolate-banana crepes are heaven in your mouth!

My last day in Paris I went to the biggest Chateau in all of Europe. Chateau de Versailles. Upon walking up the mega structure, you notice gold painted fences and the gold painted roof in the front. I noticed a super long ...

Kokkaamalla ranskalaisessa keittiössä. Sain viimein eilen aikaiseksi kutsua muutaman työkaverini suomalaisen illallisen pariin. Kuinka sattuikaan, uunin ja kahden keittolevyn samanaikainen käyttö aiheutti sen, että myös keittiön mistälie materiaalista valmistettu työtaso hohkasi vähintäänkin kilpaa uunin kanssa. Varomaton kontakti ja voilà, siihen jäi vasemman kämmenen nahka. Elämme jännittäviä aikoja odotellessamme, millainen räpylä vesikellojen alta kuoriutuu ...

So, I am in Paris... nothing special so far, when I left Hamburg, temperature was a little below zero and foggy, here in Paris it is a little above zero, foggy and raining. Can't wait to get into warmer areas :-) I have some hours here i am spending in the AF Business Lounge, eating sandwiches and drinking from the ...

... this easy to get into other countries! It's harder to get into the US coming from Kwaj! Once I breezed through customs, things began to go downhill a bit. My backpack did not make it to Paris with me! I have no iea where it is. I was assured that it should be here today. I didn't really mind all that much, but my backpack is where my gloves and scarf and hat are. Oh, have I mentioned that is is freezing here ...

... with its cafes and brasseries was the stomping ground for the early Existentialists like Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir. Apparently Picasso and Rimbaud stopped by too, and the current café owners are cashing in on today's tourists who want to experience their haunts. Which is why we found a bistro in a little back street - much better value! Wandered down through narrow and charming streets past the Sorbonne area to St Michel, came ...

... me the news. I was first welcomed by a French lady who didn't know how to speak English, so she had to ran to look for someone who spoke my language. Well, it was a nice girl who helped me translate my problem. I didn't know how they contacted their head manager but they came back to me 10' later and said the amount was a mistake, they didn't charge that much. "Well, but it was written in my bf's bank statement". "That was because our ...

... art collections, it is quite amazing and I did appreciate it. I just prefer the smaller museums. Too much of a good thing.... After that I wandered across the Seine to the Left Bank, and then back towards to bookstore. Along the way I passed the Canadian Pub, and the Globetrotter souvenir shop. Lol. I might get a picture of them yet... Back at the bookstore I took another little wander around, noting details I'd since read in my book since I first went there. Notre Dame ...

... my fiance soon to be wife", hehe The following couple of nights we stayed in Jura looking around the nearby towns and chilling by the pool. We had a couple more Braai's and a couple more bottles of wine. On our last night we joined up with our neighbours for some beers and another Braai. We had a fantastic time, it was hard to leave, but we had even more to look forward to. We split the journey back to Boulogne in to two. We stopped South of Reims in another Municipal campsite in ...