Mercure Rambouillet

... Trianon, and I got very tired. Fortunately, a good person gave me a ride when I was going there, but when I was coming back, uff... Well, I wasn`t able to walk at whole garden, because it was raining and snowing and I was freezing cold. The photos can speak better than my words...(I`ll post them soon.) _______________________________________ ...

... at Blanche station. If you ever go to Moulin Rouge, that's your station. I wasn't going to Moulin Rouge. It's expensive and nearly impossible to get tickets for the show. I'm also not interested in seeing topless ladies dance around on stage wearing feathery head-dresses. Such establishments are all over the area. Some seem to be gaudier than others. Most looked like good old fashioned strip clubs, advertising pole dances and other such standard services. Everywhere I looked I ...

... Driving to Portland (3 hours) to drop off Cosmo got a bit complicated when I had to drive back (2 hours) when Mary called to tell me that I had forgotten my computer there, and then driving back (to Seattle) I was handed a speeding ticket..OUFFFF! Deep breathing and cleansing thoughts, trying to make it work, I got on the plane with a smile. My flights were CRAMMED with people. 14 hours on a plane and very little sleep, I took my ...

... Julie over to my cube to check it out but she made it obvious to me I wouldn't be able to afford it. A whopping $450.00 a night would set me back for ages. I always wonder what may have happened if I did stay there... But my usual shopping steered me to Expedia where I booked my "princess package" at the Trocadero-Dokahn near the Eiffel Tower. I was bummed, nonetheless, to only be able to go for 4 days but I was knee deep in an internship and not about to loose any ...

2/6/08 - <Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)> - Did the Free Morning walking tour around Paris. Wasn't anything too particularly exciting about this one... walked past some of the places that we had already visited such as the Louvre and other museums. It started raining a bit and Lang opened the umbrella too hard and broke it, rendering it useless. The guide offered to sell bright pink ponchos ...

... que je puisse faire du blog si tu n'es pas à côté de moi pour m'aider. Michel, tu avais bien raison. J'ai suivi ton conseil. Quand j'ai eu faim, je me suis poigné un sandwich sur la rue. C'est mieux comme ça ...

... to the traveler: I noticed while I sat there that scam artists like to patrol popular tourist attractions like the Eiffel Tower-the scam that I noticed was primarily going on was that these ladies would walk up to you and as you if you spoke English, and if you didn't say that, then they would ask you if you could speak French. If you answered yes to either of these, they would make you read a piece of paper that basically said that a family member in their home ...

I got all dressed up today to attend what could be my last first day of school ever! Sweet! I have class every day of the week from 2-4. I will take more hours progressively (I know, it's weird), but I am in Advanced 6 out of a scale of Beg, Elem, Int, Adv, Sup (10 levels within each group). I went to La Sorbonne today (not the main building) and walked up to the 6th floor...ugh...but, I have the ...

... were upstairs. Six flights later we finally reached the top floor and our rooms. From our room you could see the light from the Eiffel Tower but not the tower itself. Later we walked back to the Eiffel Tower and watched it sparkle. Since the next day was Bastille Day people were everywhere. The French were shooting off fireworks AT each other on the mall so once the sparkling stopped we ran for our lives.

... have only one cabin mate. He is french and very very nice. He explains in french, accompanied by a lot of sign language (which Arvs and I have gotten very good at deciphering) how to shut the door, turn the light on and off, and the best places to store our luggage. At the end of his trip in Perpignan, he wishes us a good journey and says good bye very sweetly. i think i love him. :D