Novotel Bagnolet

... be ready to go. We tried a couple of times for wi-fi so we could also get directions to our hosts in Paris. Every place that we stopped, the wi-fi was not working. So, we winged it, again! We had our picnic lunch at one of the rest stops, which didn't have functioning wi-fi. We fed the rest of our bread to the birds, and they were very happy.<br> All along the road to Paris were modern "windmills". It was very interesting to see. Paris was ...

... my load compared to hers, "Look. You have such leetle. Me, I have too much and I only holiday for tree weeks." I wanted to say, "Yes, but you probably have nice French man to pick you up outside and drive you to your chateau where he will kindly unload your golf clubs and numerous bags and duty-free items (of which you purchased enough for an army) and I am about to attempt a formidable journey of subway rides and changes in Paris' huge metro system after which I must follow some rather ...

... CREPES?!? Next stop - Louvre Ever taken at least 5,000 people and crammed them into the one area? Against our better judgement (of arriving early!) we ploughed ahead. Thank F*ck for the Musee pass! The line up for billets would have been at least 2,000 long. We strolled inside - inside where we discovered another 5,000 people wandering around. There is an audio tour available which from memory was 5 euros each - however you had to leave your passport or ...

Bonjour mes amis et ma famille! This last weekend I finally made the trip to Paris, France I've been waiting for so patiently. Saturday was a long day, beginning at 4:00 a.m. on a coach bus trip to Ashford. Ashford is about a couple hours east of the University where the Eurostar station is located. Going through the Eurostar station was a lot like going through one of our airports. There was a security check-in station, a baggage xray conveyor belt, a metal detector, and ...

... the hotel (no time for the museum becasue we had to leave... boooo;) anyway, we enjoyed a nice train ride back to good old Annecy. oh Paris... so much more to explore! I have an inkling Paris and I will cross paths again in the future... :) pictures to come! being Alice, I forgot my charger at Talloires... vraiment bien fait. I brought my "little miss scatterbrain" t-shirt to France, and my host mom heartily agrees that it is very appropriate for me.

... on a monté dans la Tour. Je me dis que c'est bien bien que de monter dans la Tour Eiffel. C'est moins cher, et il n'y a pas d'attente. Et puis, tu es à la même hauteur que la Tour Eiffel. La seule chose, eh bin, tu ne peux pas dire: "J'ai monté dans la Tour Eiffel". Avant de monter, on est arrêté à un bistro, non, une brasserie. Les places dehors sont toutes prises parce que le monde veulent fumer et tu rentres en-dedans et la moitié des tables sont vides. Y ...

... we wanted was closed, we got stuck in the crowd...by the time we got to the bike place we had worked out that Mel was going to do the talking (she has more authority than me) and we were going to say that we couldn't do the bike ride could we have out money back please. When we got there though - it hadn't even left yet! So ...bike tour it was. The bikes were fantastic - Californian cruisers apparently. I felt like you sat up really straight and all I was missing to complete the ...

... fuss, I've flipped all my plans around and in three weeks I will (if there aren't too many bureaucratic hiccups with the company) be sailing with the Prince William from the Azores to Bermuda, and from there up the eastern seaboard as part of the ASTA tallships race. I disembark in Wilmington on May 29th and I'm not really sure what's going to happen after that. Actually I'm not really sure where Wilmington is. I checked on Google maps and it says ...

... church or cathedral or monument or something. Okay, you think to yourself, surely that's the last one. That was like the millionth or two millionth of such structures, surely that's the last one. Then you turn another corner, and there's another huge church or statue or something. It just never ends. It's all very nice and all, but feels a bit sterile sometimes. It lacks the level of character of a city like Prague or ...

... in that half the names in London apply to suburbs in Australia, and shows the history not only the name in London, but also all the way back home! Fresh from one shopping experience we headed to another. We headed off to Bond Street, which we walked down, stopping for a late lunch at Deep Pan Pizza for their all-you-can eat lunch buffet. We got good value for our money; we ate so much that we didn't need any dinner. Once down at Piccadilly Circus we visited the Virgin ...