Hotel de Paris Rouen

... around enjoying the fresh air and the city until we got hungry and needed to stop for a snack. We got some pastries and sat by the River enjoying our meal. We noticed a pretty little peninsula under the bridge and decided to check it out where we took a bunch of pictures.

We spent most of the evening looking for campsites and failing. We ended up finding a Formula 1 hotel which is cheap and efficient. The best ...

... a lovely (and cheap) bottle of the local cider.

We didn't venture out into Rouen deciding to leave it for the morning.

When we did we saw where Joan of arc was burnt at the stake, and the tower where she was locked pending her trial.

The old town was full of tudor style buildings, but the highlight was the ancient one handed town clock.

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It was an hour train ride to Rouen which is a little township north of Paris. The weather has now suddenly got a chill in the air. This must be what real French weather is like. I only came to check out the gorgeous gothic cathedral which rivals the Notre Dame in Paris. I preferred it more because there were few tourists and it is just as large with a creepier outlook, and the organ was amazing. Set close to the ceiling as most of them are, the ...

... to look for somewhere to get the laundry done. We searched online and found a place that was about a 15 minute bus ride away. Off we went to finally get this out of the way, got off the bus, walked a few blocks here and there zig zagging through the centre of town until we found the place. Now doing laundry is easy right? Well we must have looked a little clueless looking at the directions so a nice guy helped us with translating. So the laundry is finally ...

... were nice but nothing like the orchard we headed back to the bus for the ride home.

I don't know what it was about Giverny but everyone raved about it on the way back and we all agreed that we had a great time. It may have been the free wine at lunch or the delicious apple juice or maybe even the people I was with but it was one of the best days here yet. Lots of beautiful gardens and gorgeous weather was the backdrop to our awesome day. On to another excursion next Tuesday!

Hello again everyone!

Its time for a little update! Its been hard to find time to write inbetween all the sightseeing, napping aand meals of cheese and baguettes! I gotta say me and Chris have been sleeping a helluva lot but what else is there to do after a long day of walking then to take a nice nap before a delicious supper and dessert! We are definatly getting used to the way things work around here. Supper has been earliest 830pm and ...

Love the city of Rouen which has such a medieval feel to it but has an university with 25,000 students so quite the bustling town. The Notre Dame cathedral located in the center of town was beyond massive . We saw the most unbelievable night light show that was projected against the cathedral .... I cannot not even explain it .. simply an overwhelming show. Rouen also the site where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Plenty of shopping and pastry shops!

... to be taken out to eat twice by UNL professors that are here for a while. Both times we ate at places that started with "Le petit_____." The first thing you should know, dinner doesn't start until 8:00pm. You sit down, (starving) and choose a wine from a list on a chalk board that is propped up on your table. You drink and chat, the waiter leaves you, and you wonder if he'll ever be back. You start to feel the wine. It's loud and personable all at once, the doors and windows ...

... in finding a jacket and shirt, I managed to find a shirt as well. We went back to the hotel to freshen up and then find a place for dinner. We ended up walking all over the place and couldnīt decided on a place to eat, until we found a fondue restaurant. But of course you couldnīt get in the place with out a reservation, so we settled for a place near by that turned out to be really good. Since we had been up late the two night previous, we all went back to the hotel and crashed.

... where the toilettes and showers were, what time breakfast was or even how to get to our room she started out just waving us in a general direction but we just stood there until she got off the phone and at least showed us what door to go through. However she didn't even do that for our future roommate when she showed up about 30 minutes later. But since my hostel experience doesn't really comprise of the owners, I would still go back to this hostel, even ...