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Architecture class: Field Trips: P1 and P2
... style went out of style. Now, half the building is in Gothic style, while the other half is a mix of Roman and Renaissance. It's kind of crippled because one of the bell towers was never finished, so it's lopsided; it's a pretty ugly building.
As a whole, though, our architecture class is just walking around, freezing our butts off, and trying to remember all of the random information our professor tells us in case it's something she puts on the exam.
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36hrs
... our travel options and going for the cheapest v's least painful option. Paris to Berlin overnight train, shared compartment with beds, £400, v's compartment with seats, £98. No brainer!!! But it turns out we are on a train that I'm sure is old enough to have served Berlin before the reunification, it makes the earlier "disappointingly old Eurostar" look like the Maglev in Shanghai by comparison. To sleep perchance to dream... Two hopes... Auf Weidersen mon ...
5 Years Later, And Nobody's Changed
... as you want there is less pressure to see it all in one visit because you know you can just come back another day.
In a museum as large as the Louvre there is absolutely no point in try to see it all, so we decided to split up and each person could visit the areas that sounded the most interesting to them. Tim and I stuck together though, and after ten minutes of talking we realized that we weren't actually looking at anything. We ...
Bonjour Paris
The alarm goes at 4am. I have been awake for a while conscious that we will have to wake up soon. I am excited and anxious. I hope I can remember a little French. It will be fun having a go at basic conversation. We pack and get ready. A car will take us to the airport. Hopefully we will have time for coffee. The queue is slow. The plane is overbooked. Many of the passengers are booked to travel onto Paris. By the time, we have boarding passes, they ...
First ones up the Eiffel Tower!
... crossing the Seine to where we are. Hard to believe she's been gone that long.
We are trying to make it an early night because we need to be ready to get our taxi to the train station early tomorrow, but here it is - already 11:00 pm and we're not ready. However, thanks to Jay, the luggage is pretty well packed, so we just need to get up, showered and dressed and we can be ready to go fairly quickly.
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