Hotel Mercure Saint Quentin en Yvelines Centre
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Travel Blogs from Montigny-le-Bretonneux
Objects who speak
... my card, I was 7c short and I couldn't find an ATM anywhere :(
The streets she sent me to did, indeed, offer fun and intrigue. My particular favourite was a cupboard-sized affair which the young Parisian guy waiting outside informed me was stocked entirely with finds from second hand shops and flea markets. It was called L'objet qui parle, which directly means 'The object who speak', but ...
Midnight in Paris
... Nice to dream! One of the great things about this trip has been seeing the different things that capture the kids imaginations. They have been a lot more interested in all the historical stuff than I imagined they would be. Each having a camera makes it more fun for them too I think as they really enjoy taking lots of pictures.
We had a good look around the Jewish Ghetto which was a very picturesque area of Venice with a really interesting history. It was the ...
A Crazy Day
... the word was only '****' and it was because I found head lice. That day everyone kept saying "Welcome to France". Turns out head lice is common here. It's better than bed bugs. Also turns out the cure and prevention for head lice is jasmine. Now I smell like jasmine all the time which is pretty nice.
But back to today. After getting breakfast from an outdoor market in the center of town, I went to my second job. The things I am actually getting paid to do ...
Goodbye Italy...hello Paris
... experience I preferred not to repeat, having got my bag upstairs to my room.
Outside, I walked out to get a coffee, stopping at the first place I could see and feeling very conspicuous as the place was full of men having a drink as seems the custom at this time of day for the men (about 4pm). Further on I came across a tiny park, it`s gravel suface swept smooth where a group of older men were playing boules. The golden arches of a Macdonald`s beckoned with its ...
Gardens and museums
... br> I plan to go back and visit the Geode which is a globe shape hemispherical cinema just outside the museum which shows films screened in Imax and 3D.
Today I visited the Musee du Quai Branly which is next to the Eiffel Tower. It contains tribal art and artifacts from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. It is a big collection and well set out to show the artistic side of these items. Outside, one of the walls is ...