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Published: October 2nd 2006
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And we're off!
Me and the Bacpack Well hello people! how are we all? must be getting nice and warm now in New Zealand... oooo how exciting, summer is around the corner.. and christmas.. yay! Well i returned from Paris and Germany on Saturday morning 3.30am.. just thought id write a blogg on how the trip sorta went.. and ohh boy was this a backpacking experience..
Just a note.. 1 euro equals about $2.20 NZD? there abouts.. and 1 pound (£) is about $3.
Friday 22nd of Sept.. "Sleeping at the airport.. (night one)"
So Friday evening, we made our way to Liverpool airport on the Arrive 700 bus that took us from Piccadilly to Liverpool airport, about a 1 hour drive, cost £6. We had to leave tghe night before, because our flight was 6am the next morning, and we had to check in at 4am.. and there is no public transport to get us there that early in the morning, so we left the night before.. we found ourselves a nice lil posy in the BK booth and hung out for the night.. I think Rangi managed to get a lil shut eye, i tried, but couldnt.. and Tina is just a night owl
Welcome to John Lennon Airport...
or shall i say.. Hotel Le John Lennon.. haha so she stayed awake. We booked in and got on our flights to Paris.
Saturday 23rd of Sept.. "Seeing the sights"
Ohhh boy.. i dont think any of us remember the flight with Easyjet from Liverpool to Paris, we awoke to find ourselves in Paris, honeslty that flight seemed like 2 mins.. hehehe.. we enjoyed the take off and fell to sleep.. when we got to Paris, we were all totally wasted from no or lack of sleep the night before, but managed to collect our luggage and find our way to the train stop. So once we've finally found our train, and found out how big paris really is, and how many train lines they have.. we relax and wait for our train.. when it arrives we get ourselves a cosy posy on the train, realise that we have 11 stops to go, and start to nod off... Aaaannnnd theen.. a man gets on the trian, stands by the doors and starts playing his Guitar.. so we're like.. "aooww this is soo cool, they even have bands playing on their train" so we start to head bop a lil, and clap, and smile.. and then 2 songs later,
he puts his gutiar down, walks over to us and takes off his hat, and in french asks for money.. haha.. so we all give him like a euro each.. once he had walked to the next cabin to fool the next bunch of foreigners, we say to each other "last time, we're clapping to music" haha.. have a lil laugh, and then try to sleep again.. not more that 10 mins later, the door connecting the cabin to the next opens, and who comes walking in?? yup.. another busker with his trumpet thingy.. he stands by the doors and starts playing his trumpet.. me and tina looked at each other, put our head against the glass and pretended to sleep... when he came around, he asked the same thing, for money, in french.. poor rangi, she was like.. aooo, oooohh... umm.. ermm.. ohh.. ohh ok.. then she looked at us, and was like.. "oh yeah sleeping aye.. wotever!" Tina and I opened our eyes and crackec up laughing!! it was funny.. aaaaannnndd then, a lady came over to us, and said "speak English?" we said "yea" and she gave us this note, which read that she was trying to
bring her family over from bosnia and that she needed money.. we were like.. ohh nah, we aint getting sucked in again.. we tried to tell her no, and she started getting angry and speaking in her language, and then just asked for Tinas drink, that she was drinking at the time.. so Tina gave it to her, and she kjust drunk it in front of us... eww... but yeah.. weird.. Anyways, with much challenge we found our way to Torcy which was where our hotel was, really nice lil place... took us about 3 hours in total from the time we landed to get to our hotel. we booked in, and had showers then took off again to visit Paris.. ohh yeah and our train about tickets cost 16.75 euros just for the day... disgusting! we got to paris, and done all the touristy things including the Lourve, Eifle tower etc.. it was soooo beautiful!! as soon as we walked into the Lourve we were breathless.. it was an amazing sight.. and then walking down the ummmm cant remember the name of it.. but it connects the lourve to the arc de triomphe.. it was an amazing day, seeing
some amazing things.. and getting quite exhausted! we ended our walking at the Eifle tower and fell asleep on the grass under it.. each time i opened my eyes, i had to remind myself that this was for real and that i really was sleeping under the eifle tower in paris, france!
Later that night, we went to a nice French restaurant in Torcy and managed to spend a good 25 euros on a meal.. oooo yup, burn in the spending money, but it was a nice event, and nice to get dollied up for.
Sunday 24th of Septemeber "Peaceful Sunday"
Because it was Sunday, there wasnt much we could do.. well we managed to spend a nice monring sleeping in, till 1 in the arvo.. hehe.. then we checked out emails, made some phonecalls to NZ and enjoyed each others company.
Monday 25th of September "Magical Disneyland"
We were up at 6.30am this morning, well i was, then the girls got us after i had finished in the shower.. ooooo we were too excited about going to Disnayland.. the weather at the start of the day was a bit of a worry, but it cleared over nicely,
Ermmm
I cant remember the name of this building, but you enter it to get through to the Lourve. and worked out to be a gorgeuous day! we started our day with a gorgeous freshly made real french crossont.. ohh it was good.. then we went to Disneyland.. there was a lil queue when we got there, and the excitement was building up.. but once inside, we were like lil kids.. i think we were worst than the lil kids.. we made our way to adventureland first and done the pirates of the carribean ride, then to indiana jones.. then all over the place.. went on the infamous spinning tea cup ride, and merry go round.. ohh and the best ride was SPACE MOUNTAIN!!! that is the BEST!! we went on that as mush as we could.. tyhe day was awsome!! loved it sooo much.. i think it was the highlight of my trip! hehe.. but everf so expensive inside, to get a baguette was 4.90 euro.. and gifts from there... Woahhh talk about expensive! soo people, dont expect too many gifts from Paris! hehehe...
Later that day we made our way to Orly airport, to do another Liverpool night, with spending the night at the airpot, cos our flight was at 6am in the morning again, so we
got there about 11pm this night.. we found quite a cost lil posy and managed to get some sleep that night, we were wasted from running around the park all day..
Tuesday 26th of September "uhh ohhh"
... so we wake up at 4am in the morning, going to check in, and then Tina is pulling out our tickets, and she says... "umm guys, whats the date today" and we reply with "the 26th.. WHY?" and yup... we werent due to leave until the next day.. the 27th.. at this time we were well... cant really explain, exhausted, slept in the airport for nothing.. and running low on funds.. so we decide to go back to sleep.. ahhaha.. best thing to do when your homeless! heheh.. so we crashed out till abouit 10am the next morning, eaking up to the french lady on the speaker with her message that reminds people not to leave their luggage around or it will be as she quortes "systematically destroyed" in a french accent, it was too funny.. We sdecided that there was no point spending money on train rides and hostel for a night, so we hung out in a lil place
near the airport, where we went to McDees for breakie, and done some shopping at the mall.. we speant a nice night at the airport again that night, and got on out flight safefly the next morning..
sooo this was a li of what went on in paris.. it was such a journey.. lol.. but wait until i put Germany on here, that was an expereicne as well, but ill write another blogg for that one..
anyways, i just realised that my time is running low, so ill post some pics and yeah..
hope you enjoyed the reading.. love yahs.. ali
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HI Ali. you know those pyramid glass looking photos is that wea Davinchis code was taken???? have you checked if magnolias or wateva her name is tomb is buried beneath one of them?? Bye