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Paris is a large city and it's sometimes easy to forget that. The difference between here and India are stark. My first impression, sadly, was "Gawd but there are a lot of white people here." Then I realized how silly my packing strategy had been because the lady at the airport didn't tell me there was an express bus from the airport to L'Opera, which is only a short walk from my hotel. No, she told me to take the trains. So I did. From the airport I had to change trains at Gare du ...

... a magnificent chocolate dessert (like a small cake with a runny rich centre of chocolate), were ooh la la!! 3. Shopping. I have had a range of shopping experiences from wandering down the Champs Elysee (where I actually found a nice reasonably priced shirt in a French shop which I purchased, and where we came across the Peugeot shop), through the Marais (which includes the Jewish quarter) where I found a kitschy ...

... smell like death once we reached Milan. Somewhere around 5am or close to it, we stopped. I stared out my window to see a snow-covered village straight out of a Grimm's fairy tale. I figured we were in the mountains somewhere and was surprised to see snow in September but it was amazing. I just marveled at the buildings and the minimal foot traffic, I was guessing, bakers and civil servants are only accustomed to. I had forgotten about my body odor and ...

... closed for a couple hours, couldnt find anything..... and when we though it was hopeless jes found a gift shop and got herself a corc screw, lol. phew. but we werent strong enough to open the bottle so were sitting therein the park and ppl r watching us struggle to get to our wine and a nice young man came along and got-er-done! so we chugged the wine and ate our bread and cheese then took off to hike up big bessy (eifel tower ...

... un manche. C'est vraiment pratique. On a dîner (souper) en mangeant le restant de pizza et un pâté campagne que j'ai acheté aujourd'hui. Moi, je viens fou raide quand je vois toutes les boutiques avec leurs sp ...

... this point it was late in the afternoon and we were exhausted. So, I decided that the movielike trip to the top of the Eiffel would have to wait until another trip. I've already seen the view of Paris from the Sacre Cour Cathedral.....so oh well. We then grabbed some crepes and headed over to the park below the Eiffel Tower where lots of people were laying in the grass enjoying the sunshine. We joined them! It was such a beautiful day - we spent a long time just ...

Hello Everyone: Today we had a 5:00am wake up call as we were heading out at 6:30am for a long journey to Mont St. Michel, approximately 420 round trip miles to the West of France, quite near the English Channel. We were worried about the weather today as we left Paris with very misty skies with no site of the Eiffel Tower through the dense fog. We hoped the weather would clear so we could see the Mont St. Michel so far away. Our bus picked us up a little late, about 6 ...

... to actually see these things. I keep thinking how unbelievable it is to see things that I have been hearing and learning about all my life. Once everyone got into the city we all went to the Louvre that night because there was free entry. We went straight to the Mona Lisa, and i know someone is going to shoot me for saying this but I just dont get what the big deal about her is. Something about the smile? no idea. The next ...

... the dirt ground, reading our books for the next 1.5 hours. The fireworks came and went and yes they were really spectacular as fireworks are (I prefer lightning myself) and then the crowd went home - all to the same Metro station at the same time. The police ended up having to block the entrance to the station so that the crush didn't send the commuters onto the tracks. We got home just after midnight - more than a little disappointed. They didn't even sing their National Anthem.

... the area) to go to a dicotech, but there was a huge line and it cost more than we were prepared to pay. So we made our way to a small smokey bar around the corner from the flat, had one drink and back to the flat. This brings me to present time where i currently sit here writing to you and thinking about where to go next...I'm thinking about Spain....you'll get an update when i reach my undetermined destination... au re voir!