Mercure Paris La Defense 5 3m Courbevoie

Our african trip starts in Paris. Me and my gf were visiting there our friend from school, who was studing there. In our whole day we were walking around the town. Writing about Paris is worthless, coz almost everyone saw that city, or know something about it. My overal impression was good, and main point for me was Sacre-Coeur. Perfect view. Rest of Paris - overcrouded

... i spent the day at the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa and her famous smile, as did 100+ other people at the same time. I had lunch in the Parc in the Champes Elysees and had a fantastic view of the Louvre and people watched, not that i had much choice, people are everywhere and all around, all the time. Did i mention how much i cannot stand all the people? Well, Paris is not my choice city, i miss Barcelona, i will go back one day. But what ...

... Even if I'm dead when I go. I'm going back. I loved everything about it. The only thing that was embarrassing was the first French person I encountered, I attempted to ask him where we could buy the bus shuttle tickets to our hotel, and I spoke Spanish to him out of habit. I felt like an idiot. I realized what I had done and switched to French, but he totally hated me, I could tell.

... Monet and his wife. There's something about the way Renoir made his subjects' skin glow...so luminous and pretty. The upstairs featured a video that showed the installations of the ginormous water lilies paintings at Musee d'Orangerie, so I felt like this visit really tied all my museum wanderings together. There also were examples of artists I didn't recognize who painted in similar styles to Monet and Renoir. I jotted down their names because I ...

... before the fireworks. We got back to our hotel about 1:00 am and collapsed. The next day, Wednesday, unfortunately we had to get up early to tour the Louvre. We had hired a private tour guide which was well focused on the kids. It was about 4 hours and quite good. Marie was our guide. She was a mid twenties French woman who was studying to become a museum curator. Makenna unfortunately was too tired from walking the day before to fully appreciate the tour and sat down whenever possible ...

... parks. A weekend in Normandy was not only historically educational, but also emotionally touching. Traveling to Barcelona was a lesson on friendship and living the good life. And as always, more important than any location, it is the people you are with that makes the difference. I've been blessed to meet so many great people when I travel, and this time is no exception. My friends (for the most part new) here in Paris have been the ...

... the reasons why work-life is seperated from professional life in Germany). Alex was here last week. I was so tired, I couldn't take any pictures. He took a lot. You can find them on his travelpod. Here is the link:Alex' travelpod. We had a wonderful time together. We didn't meet for more than one year. He did some extensive traveling and so did I. So we ...

... in shavings! We had to get out there and catch a metro to Obelisque (concorde) to meet Eddie from our group to help him buy a handbag from Christine Dior for his mum. I have never seen more expensive bags and jewellery in my life. Some of them were 1.5 thousand euros! I saw a beautiful necklace - but it had no price :( dont want to guess how much! Part two: WE ran out of Dior (without buying anything of course - even if i sold everything i owned i probably wouldn't have ...