Blogs from Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe - page 343

Paris is a great city in many ways. In other ways it can be terrible. One of the ways in which Paris is absolutely horrific is its traffic. Observing this seemingly organized chaos from the sidewalk café can probably be exotic, interesting, and entertaining. Observing the Paris traffic from a moving vehicle for which you yourself are responsible for maneuvering is a completely different world. Paris may be the city of cities, but the traffic is pure jungle. Going into close combat with the Parisians on wheels is one of those adventures you will look back at laughing one day, a story to tell your grandchildren. However, when you are actually in the smack middle of it you are closer to tears or a mental breakdown. Having said that...The Paris weekend for us four Swedish out-of-towners ... read more

hello from paris! So our hostel rocks except the sketchy mean man who yells at EVERYONE! law and order is currently on in french (best show ever). We crammed a lot in yesterday but i only have 10 minutes left to type so i'll save the details for later. We have decided to keep a few interesting lists. 1) the number of times i (emily) fall/trip/stumble currently 6 2) the number of sketchy people we meet/run into currently 4 (including the men who followed us down the road screaming discoteque!!!) 3) and a list of interesting quotes Anyway we watched some pretty interesting street performers today, uncluding a man from scotland who had some difficulties with his music for his act, and another man who forced everyone walking by to stop and watch by yelling "STOP!!". ... read more

Well, I've made it to Europe safely - rather sick, but getting better! There has been so much to see and not even enough time to write about it so I am sorry to be putting some of you on hold. I will put some of my journals up some days from now, because I need time to catch up on my writing and then put it online. The sights have been phinomenol and we have seen so much. I am amazed that my trip is not even half over yet. I miss everyone and will have many funny stories to tell when I return. ... read more

What a full day we have had today! We had a bit of a sleep in after our hectic day and night yesterday. We got up and headed to the local supermarket Champion and stocked up with supplies (including some chocolate croissants for breakfast) We headed to the Eifel tower then the Arc De Triumph (which we climbed). After that we strolled down the Champs Elysees and found a nice little park and ate our delicious lunch care of Champion. We continued to stroll until we reached the Louvre, but we didn't go in because we had both been before. Then we headed along the Seine river wondering what to do next when an American couple offered us some boat tickets so we spent the rest of the afternoon/evening sailing down the Seine. We got off ... read more

Well we off on our amazing 6 week adventure. So far we have crossed the border of England and France and are sitting on a big ferry set to cross the English channel. Matt and I have found a good possie in a bar on the boat (strictly Cokes all round). We have arrived, our hotel isn't too shabby. It is certainly in an amazing position, time for a little cat nap before we head out tonight. Tonight we had a lovely meal at a place called La Marmite, we had an amazing salad with crispy potatoes and lasagne, yum. After that we headed for a look at the Moulin Rouge and surrounding red light district. We strolled the streets without a care in the world. We trecked up to the Sacre Couer which was Illuminated ... read more

This will be my last day in Paris, bought the ticket to go to Nice for tomorrow. Since there's so much people about and I'll be arriving late on a sunday, I also booked a stay at a central hostel in Nice. Spent last night at a "Club" in St Michael called "the Saint", fairly small but most the people there were dancing and having fun. Today I've been in Notre Dame together with massive amounts of tourists. Read about the bombs in London and now in Sinai, dunno what to say... what do they plan to accomplish???... read more

Bonjour! Sorry about not writing, I have been super busy. I got to go to Paris (again...yay!) from the 21st to the 24th. I love that city, even though it wasn’t the most relaxing weekend ever. We had a huge group of people, which always makes things more difficult. We took another overnight train (which was really cool because I was reading Harry Potter and it made me feel like I was on my way to Hogwarts...yes I am a dork), and got there early Friday morning. We stayed at the FIAP, which is the location of the Paris European Council Program. The first thing we did was go to the catacombs down below Paris. I didn’t even know that those existed! They were really scary but really interesting too. There are over 2 million bones ... read more