Thursday, August 03, 2006
Paris
Paris pictures
Well, after a wild (and long) day of travelling on Wednesday, we had a lazy and relaxing thursday in paris. Yesterday we had a great time on the scenic train from Interlaken to Geneva but then we had an extremely long layover (almost 4 hours) in Geneva which was quite boring. Then we finally made our way to paris and made it to the station in time to get our train to Bayeux (normandy) only to run around the station until we were dying (had to run up 4 or 5 flights of stairs with backpacks on) and then found out that the train to bayeux listed on our schedule actually doesn't exist and the last trip to Bayeux was before we even got to the station. so we freaked out a bit and then calmed down and called the hotel we were staying at in Paris starting thursday (tonight) and got a room there. We had a great dinner where we ate chicken and mashed taters, talked to a family from Durham and two women from Australia, and griffin had her crepe. Today we slept in, ate a long lunch and walked around, took a nap (yesterday wore us out beyond belief), and then walked all around Paris for a couple hours. Had a nice dinner (griffin got duck which was pretty good, i got a delicious steak with a gorgonzola cheese sauce which was actually better on my french fries than on the steak. Anyways, now we're making a plan for the rest of our time here (we might still go to Bayeux on Saturday night/sunday). Also, put up more picures on the switzerland and cinque terre so check those out (links in yesterdays blogs). Anyways, here's a picture of us at the louvre:
Well, after a wild (and long) day of travelling on Wednesday, we had a lazy and relaxing thursday in paris. Yesterday we had a great time on the scenic train from Interlaken to Geneva but then we had an extremely long layover (almost 4 hours) in Geneva which was quite boring. Then we finally made our way to paris and made it to the station in time to get our train to Bayeux (normandy) only to run around the station until we were dying (had to run up 4 or 5 flights of stairs with backpacks on) and then found out that the train to bayeux listed on our schedule actually doesn't exist and the last trip to Bayeux was before we even got to the station. so we freaked out a bit and then calmed down and called the hotel we were staying at in Paris starting thursday (tonight) and got a room there. We had a great dinner where we ate chicken and mashed taters, talked to a family from Durham and two women from Australia, and griffin had her crepe. Today we slept in, ate a long lunch and walked around, took a nap (yesterday wore us out beyond belief), and then walked all around Paris for a couple hours. Had a nice dinner (griffin got duck which was pretty good, i got a delicious steak with a gorgonzola cheese sauce which was actually better on my french fries than on the steak. Anyways, now we're making a plan for the rest of our time here (we might still go to Bayeux on Saturday night/sunday). Also, put up more picures on the switzerland and cinque terre so check those out (links in yesterdays blogs). Anyways, here's a picture of us at the louvre:
