Blogs from Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe - page 341

Bonjour all you people, So, I think it's now been 2 days in Paris, I'm not really sure. In fact, I don't even know what time it is. I'm currently sitting in the middle of the lobby of our Paris hostel which is located right at the apex of the party/ghetto/very Vermont & Adams looking part of Paris near Republique Metro Station. I'm surrounded by 3 clocks, one says that it's 7:05, one, 5:45 and one, 1:10. It's dark and late, that's all I know for sure. Now for the good stuff. We came in via train from London which of course means the Channel Tunnel. I regret to inform you that the tunnel (Or Chunnel, as no one here calls it) is not nearly as interesting as you'd think. I'm more or less certain that ... read more

...in that I hadn't done either of those things three days ago. The Louvre provided one of those days where you keep coming up on moments of art-inspired reverence, staring mouth agape at some sightless marble statue of Augustus who is staring sightlessly at other marble statues of other emperors you don’t want to admit you’ve never heard of, and you think okay I’m having my breathless moment of wonder and then it is ruined by a gaggle of fanny-packed Americans on the Da Vinci Code Tour. Then the ladies room was out of toilet paper and I said, fuck this place man I haven’t had any cheese in at least two hours, I’m outta here. My truest moment of reverence came today in Place Pigalle, sitting by a fountain flanked on all sides by sex ... read more

Yesterday I had some trouble with the Travelblog entry so I decided to come to the Internet Café today to check on things. The Travelblog site wouldn’t let me save my whole entry and, even though I put up a good fight, I didn’t win the battle. However, having relied on computers for many years now, I knew enough to save a copy to disc just “in case.” Happily, today when I checked my entry from yesterday, both were there: the partial one and the full version. I was able to delete the "incomplete" one. It is understandable if you were confused...I was confused when trying to get around the problem yesterday. Last night was a special night here in Paris. Each Wednesday during the month of June, there are musical “celebrations” everywhere. It’s called Fête ... read more

Paris is a beautiful city, full of old and beautiful architecture. Full of beautiful people too! We couldn't get over how good looking, and well groomed everyone was! Male and female both, they were definitely pleasing to the eye - good to know that all those rumours have some truth to them! And there were designer stores everywhere!! Certainly not something we see too much of in lovely, down to earth Perth :) We saw the famous Moulin Rouge (French for 'Red Mill'), nestled on the streets of the Red Light District (though a show there was out of the question on our backpacker's budgets as a standing ticket alone was over 100 euro!!).. We did a da Vinci Code Tour walking through the city - definitely recommend it regardless of if you have read the ... read more

Hi to everyone interested in the Hinkleys travel blog. There has been some technical problems with Lees computer so I have not been so diligent to add a new one every day but I will briefly try to bring everyone up to speed on what we are doing. Obviously still in Paris, and loving every minute. When we first arrived we had a family meeting to discuss what everyone wanted to do and then simply divided the "must do's" geographically and into days. We have managed by day 5 to fit in heaps and the list has plenty crossed out. We have done the obvious tourist attractions as well as some not so obvious. With Peter's choice the girls were not so happy to do, but since we had dragged him through many clothes shops it ... read more