Mercure Paris Montparnasse 3m

... later and the view is pretty good. Paris is sprawling and like 4 cities in one, with the Eiffel Tower v obvious. But unlike London, i couldn't spot a single crane. <br><br>Wondered around this little island for a while and had a delicious french omlette &amp; glass of red wine at a nice cafe. The wine instantly healed my aching feet. Then went across the road to Sainte-Chapelle, which has incredible stained glass windows ...

... well of course we were defiantly going to go to that. and OH MY GOSH we are glad we did. A room full of young army,navy, fireman etc oh and 2 incredibly hot sailors. Our night was amazing.<br><br>Wednesday 15th:<br><br>up early to start our busabout tour....FINALLY!!!! We weren't off to a good start as we couldn't actually find where we actually had to go, luckily i just so happened to be checking out this guy and realised that he had a busabout road-crew shirt on :o ...

... were on the bus for 7 hours. Finally we got back and everyone was asleep on the bus. Then we ate and everyone was awake so we stayed up till 10:30 instead of 10. March 28 - Today we return to Paris via the city of Rouen and the well known Chateau-Gaillard. Our stay in Paris was to be at a student residence but due to overbooking, we stayed at Hotel Mattle, 8,rue de la Boule.Rouge, 8, 75009 Paris. We left Caen and got to Paris. Our ...

... environmentally conscious. People carry cloth bags everywhere, and some grocery stores actually charge you (about 3 cents per bag) for plastic bags. This is great, I think. In and around apartment buildings you'll see several canisters for recycling, one for paper, another for glass bottles, and the third for various recyclable materials (aluminum, plastic, cardboard, etc). Back in my visits in 2005 and in 2003 I saw this, the recycle awareness is awesome here ...

... and headless statutes more. Heads of Kings? The Matching Bodies? A quick stop at the apartment to drop off my purchases and then it was off to meet my friend Linda for lunch in the 7th eme.  I'm not sure what possessed me to not take the Metro.  I had given myself 20 minutes to walk from Ile de la Cite to our meeting point, the Ecole ...

... 17h. J'ai fait un somme. Quand je me suis levé, on est allé prendre une marche dans le quartier. On a trouvé une boulangerie. Une demi-baguette et un morceau de tarte aux pommes. On ne fait pas à souper souvent ici. Y'a du manger partout. On est revenu souper. On mange en regardant la TV. Micheline fait la vaisselle pendant que je commence le blog. Là, elle veut aller se coucher. Donc, bye bye Bisous de Montmartre. Gilles et Micheline

We decided to stay one extra day in Paris so that Erlend could join us for a trip. We take the RER into Paris with a whole load of food and drink loaded inside Christopher's buggy. We made it to the Eiffel tower laid down a sheet right in the middle of the park below the tower and had a real nice lunch of sandwiches, salad, and wine - as well as a little ...

... s younger sister, was an accomplished pianist and later a French teacher (which I always wanted to be and have done on occasions when schools were desperate!) Over the years Yvonne has kept me informed of Louise's travels and recently her marriage to Stephane, with whom she lives in St Remy Les Chevreuse ...

... Karma got me in the end though, I went to the train to Brussels, interrail pass in hand and was told by the train manager "You must pay the normal fare like everyone else, it is 135 Euros, the next train is in an hour"- turns out Thalys aren't part of the interrail program..and I didn't feel like forking over that much money to this ******. So I walked away calmly, muttering about "revenge for Waterloo" under my breath. Went to a cafe ...

Elävien kirjoissa taas ja hienoa laskua on päästy vetämään. On tämä vaan niin ihmettä..nytkin sataa vettä taivaan täydeltä, mikä tietysti on näin ikkunasta katsottuna vähän masentavaa mutta kun tietää mitä tuolla 3000 metrissä tapahtuu, niin johan nousee hymy korviin. Ollaan nytkin laskettu monta päivää hienoa laskua, ylhäällä ihan puuteria, alempana koskematonta nuoskaa.. Ollaan päästy korkkaamaan monta seinää, tekemään omaa jälkeä ihan perusreitille, jäätikölle ja ...