Troyon Paris

We got up way too early and packed our things. Mathilde and Xav got up early (on their day off!) to say goodbye as we were leaving. We lugged all of our bags around, to three metro stops, one train, and finally through the airport.

We had a direct flight from Paris to San Francisco (about 12 hours), which was more tolerable due to the fact that our row of seats only had two ...

... how much it would cost to insure myself in France. After a decent number of calls to French insurance companies where I was hanged up on, laughed at and then told it couldn't be done I canceled my ticket, and told Oliver from Frankfurt that i wasn't coming. Here is the general process which I found out from reading many forums, translating bit by bit from websites.
The German Side
Buy a ticket to Germany ($200)
Find a car and get TUV and AU done /rego and ...

... especially at night". Looking around, we now know why this is the case. Let's just say that we were the odd ones out being a fair skinned couple from Australia! So, a couple of stops and a few gypsies kissing their dogs later, we arrived at the hotel. Spent most of the next day wandering around Paris and conquering the damn metro system. Think we finally have it worked out. Climbed the Eiffel tower, checked out Musee Dorsay and had a shitload ...

... through of the Louvre and down the Champs Elysees- we saw quite a bit really. I'm trying to figure out how to get all of the pictures on here but I'm having technical difficulties- but I'll get a few up for now. Last weekend I stuck around London- visited the impressive Westminster Abbey and did a little absinthe tasting at Vinopolis. Spent the day at the Camden Markets which I love love love. I want to go back every weekend but I'd have to take on 8 jobs this ...

... us to sing "Five Golden Rings" when it happened again.  This made us laugh.     We headed back to Notre Dame and stopped in another one of the cafes along the way.  I had my Beef Bourgignon and Diana has some Tartiflette which was like an Au Gratin potato casserole.  We then headed over to Saint Chappel which is a beautiful chapel that had a beautiful display of stained glass.  Frances had recommended it and it didn't disappoint.  In all, there were over 500 scenes from the bible ...

... just not sure how many. At the top of each level of stairs, there is a sign that tells a little history of the Eiffel Tower, you can pretend to read it as you catch your breath! The actual count of stairs includes 9 steps to the ticket booth at the base, 328 steps to the first level, 340 steps to the second level and 18 steps to the lift platform on the second level. When exiting the lift at the third level there are 15 more steps to ascend to the upper observation platform. The ...

7 Octobre : soit si on calcule bien, 10 jours avant LE grand départ pour l'Amérique du Sud ! Au delà des préparatifs de notre voyage, on se rend compte, depuis quelques temps, que nous sommes en pleine expérimentation du concept des « travestissements »... Non pas que nous jouions aux travestis. Mais les événements nous amènent à faire de vrais grands bonds vestimentaires. Explication... J - 79 Charles et moi nous disons « OUI ...

... it on the pavers of a closed off street using pastel chaulk, enlarging the original canvas a hundred times over. The truest sense of street art.

As great as the Louvre is, the dozens of other world calibre art museums in Paris would individually do any city proud. Careful to avoid overdosing on art, we limited our visit to just one other museum, the Musee d'Orsay, the train station turned mega art museum whose greatest collections ...

... small things like this can actually be quite meaningful. I started with a warm chevre salad - placed on triangles of bread, broiled, and then placed atop greens and tomatoes. Very good. The baguette was ****, like last time. In fact, it probably was the same baguette and had been left out to go stale for the past two years. As I choked on the dry baguette, I anxiously awaited the penne. If I can't figure it out this time, I will submit a sample to a lab, and ...

... we were herded through like cattle, but then we sat on the top of the hill for about an hour befor heading back to the hostel. That night since it was my "birthday" we decided go get a nice dinner. First we decided to try around the Arc de Triomphe after looking at the arc we tryed to find a place to eat but everything was WAY out of our price range. So we went to this other district...almost ended up eating on the ...