Blogs from Sarcelles, Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe - page 3

It took Elysia longer to get home from work on Thursday than it took us to travel from London to Paris Friday morning on the Eurostar. We left London's St Pancras International train station at 05:40 (bright and early!) and were in Paris just after nine. While we had a scenic view of the English country side and a neat experience to take the chunnel (you are actually only under the water for about 20 minutes), the best part of the day was definitely waiting for us in Paris! Paris is, well, Paris. In other words, breathtaking. After taking the metro across La Seine, we found our way to the apartment we were staying in for the weekend. Our good friend from school, Hannah, had kindly invited us to stay with her and two other friends ... read more

The trip has been nothing like I expected. From the minute I stepped on the plane in Seattle (the first leg of my international flight) it was one surprise after another. I never would have thought that I'd crave airplane food, but when there isn't an option of having any, you start drooling for some. I guess it's just one more thing to thank the failing economy for: the lack of free food on an international flight. Merci au monde! With little sleep, frustrated after having missed nearly two flights, my arrival in Paris was nothing short of a relief. I ride the train in, where I must say Parisians have found an art of seeing everything without actually looking at anything. Gare de Nord was nothing like the Hollywood movie Hugo made it out to ... read more

Note: All the events described in this entry occurred in September 2006. For more updated entries and trips, please refer back to this page in the future. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy living in Dijon, I can't say that enough I feel. It's really a great city, however my family and I spent thousands of dollars for me to be here for 9 months, so I wanted use as much of my free time as possible towards travel. One of the first places I visited was Paris. During the first week of September, I had gone to visit a small town called Besancon, the capital of the Franche-Compte region. I had spent the day there, admiring the Citadel (a 17th century fortress which is now like a little theme park similar to Castle Island ... read more

Day One: Ok so it now has been 2 days here and we have had our good times and our not so good times. It all started at 4pm from Dresden when we couldnt figure which was our bus, but that was not too hard in the end! We boarded the bus and headed first to Berlin to catch our next bus. The itinerary said we were going to arrive in Berlin at 6:35pm and our next bus was at 7pm. When we got closer we noticed that we were getting into traffic and the time was getting closer to our due time!! By the time we finally arrived it was 7:05pm and were freaking but we did see our bus there with the sign Paris on it! we grabbed our baggage as quick as possible ... read more

These are 3 more modern bistro cuisine, a bit pricier but such delicious food: LE REMINET 3 rue des Grands-Degres 01.44.07.04.24 Metro: St. Michel Near the Seine; good ground level: bustling; tables close; basement cave: quieter, more romantic Very good contemporary bistro food pied du porc fritters(v. good) & white fish in curry cream sauce (good) oysters (good); duck breast (v. good) & crème brulee' (v good) w/ wine by the glass Very friendly owner charming and good service 108 Euros for 2 BOUILLON RACINE 3 rue Racine 01.44.32.15.60 Metro: Cluny-La Sorbonne Good; near blvd. St.Michel Art Nouveau dining room; framed mirrors; comfy upstairs seems for larger groups; has a bar Good; interesting menu; plate selection Salade; white fish Meat terrine; gigot steak w/ beans; apples w/ gingerbread (good) wine by the glass Service friendly... read more