Villages Paris Porte De La Villette

This is our last day in Paris, tomorrow we will be flying home. We spent the day touring the city on a boat (Batobus). Pretty good value the Batobus - pay one fee and get off and on as much as you like. The boat stops at all the major attractions:
1. Eiffel Tower
2. Orsay Museum
3. St. Germain-des-Pres
4. Notre Dame
5. Jardin des Plantes
6 ...

... be spent with a bottle of wine by the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame. The magnificent church is lit up at night and people usually come together there to play music and drink wine out of the bottle or plastic glasses. Being "classy" we found some glasses this time and set off for the river. Was so nice to catch up over some French wine, by the Seine, with the grandeur of Notre Dame at out backs. The following night Alex and ...

... who will only watch movies in English with her friends with French subtitles (and takes notes), who writes in her personal journal in French...it's really discouraging when this is all she knows and ever wanted to do, so now she feels like she wants to quit and doesn't know where she's going now. It's really discouraging when you're trying to make progress, yet those whom you look up to just mock you and tell you NON. I want my progress, ******mit.

... carried a huge backpack of 26´s filled with vodka and orange juice. Id say now, it was probably 90% vodka, 10% orange food colouring. But it was his duties to get rid of it as fast as he could between bars, which meant he would have to carry less weight. We asked how this was allowed on the streets. They had permission in certain areas, that were away from residential areas. I guess open liquor, minus the rowdyness, is legal in some areas of ...

... walking there, doing as I please. I went through the Tuilleries Gardens towards Place de la Concorde. The gardens are beautifully maintained and have a series of statues along the way. I could have spent hours wandering around, but I had to meet my new friend at 12:30, so I hurried more than I wanted. At the Place de la Concorde my camera battery died after I'd taken my last picture of the Eiffel Tower. Taking that as a sign I turned towards my hotel. I sat and wrote while waiting ...

... future, especially how we might work together and better serve our brethren in French-Europe. I took my leave about 8:30 pm and started the drive back down to Paris. A bit before 11:00 I took a hotel room not far from the airport for the night. Now I'm repacking one last time and preparing for the trip home. I can't wait to see my family again. It's been a full and successful three weeks, but now I'm quite ready to be home!

... dark room and wait for us outside - he had had enough! Emma and I ate our dessert then joined him to see photos of what we had eaten - we had guessed a couple of the foods correctly but certainly not all of them! After dinner, we took the Metro back to La Tour Maubourg station (near our apartment) so we could watch the fireworks. Someone had told us that we would be able to see the ...

... ei eksytty sinne paleleen. Jäätikön railot näyttää tosi isoilta ainakin tällä lumimäärällä. Eilen oli lehdessä, että jotain 30 vuoden aikana Alppien jäätiköt on sulaneet kokonaan ilmastonlämpenemisen vuoksi. Täällä on sellanen jäätikkömuseo ja muistan, kun kävin siellä kaudella 2002, niin silloin se liikkui 25 metriä vuodessa ja joka kolmas vuosi se oli pakko rakentaa uudestaan, kun jäätikkö liikkuu ja sulaa niin voimakkaasti

... go back there and get some shampoo, conditioner, etc, but I'm good with that stuff for now. The water here is weird and makes my mouth feel really dry. One of the guys in my group was saying the water did that to him and he speculated it must be the minerals they put in it. Well here's to having other drinks besides just water from now on. Speaking of which, we had planned to go out for the evening and take a boat ride on the seine. But then the group just got too big, and 3 random ...

... I didn't speak French. He told me all about the restaurant he owned in the area, and the reason he was in the area (he was paying his taxes). When he finally got around to asking me what I was doing in Paris and realized that I was flying back to Dublin that night...he expressed his disappointment by saying (in a French accent) "I'm so sorry, I won't have time to make love to you now." He was serious...I started to giggle. C'est la vie. Eh?