July 13 - Paris France. Well, we are now in Paris. We left Lyon early this morning (one thing about bus tours is that EVERY DAY is an early day!) and headed for Paris. This may sound awful, but in all honesty, the part of France we drove through today was fairly un-exciting. The countryside at times looks pretty much like Eastern Ontario and at times it looked like Alberta wheat feilds! The only thing that was interesting was that our driver ( a fine Italian lad named Raphaelo, who speaks very little English, if any!) had a difficult time starting the bus after we stopped for lunch. More on that later. We got to Paris and picked up our local guide (in the major centres like Venice, Rome, Paris, Florence) our Tour Director supplemented his
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