Blogs from Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe - page 346

Seeing as we accomplished the majority of the 'must do's' the day before we slept in, waking up at 9.30am ish. After a quick breakfast we met up the brits again at the Musee de Rodin, this time actually going into the museum. The first sculpture we saw was 'Le Penser' aka 'The Thinker' placed amid the gorgeous garden complete with stellar roses and other flowers (I'm not good at saying which flower is which). Behind the museum/mansion is the main garden, where a wedding reception was being set up (ideal for a wedding), tons more sculptures. Went inside the mansion, really intriguing work. It boggles my mind how one artist could do so much work, just one piece would take a long time. From here we headed to Sacre Coeur. Now, there is a metro-related ... read more

hahaha so we pulled the good old brittany and katharine we love somewhere soo much we have to stay we booked our sixth night finally hahaha um... kendra is here now!!! which is sooo rad. the day she got here we all went for dinner mcdonalds... haha and then we went to show her the eiffel tower again.. i could sit infront of that thing for the rest of my life anyway.. we met a whole bunch of french locals and they were soo funny and im now fluent in french. and they alll had guitars so we sat in huge circles and sang and drank rose. i hate red wine.. i try soo hard to like it.. but i cant ANYWAY!! next day.. yesterday we woke up and went early early early to the louve ... read more

We had a loose plan as to our day's sightseeing goals. We accomplished it almost all in this day. We said screw it, it's a nice day, let's walk everywhere, so we did. Our hotel was a 20 min walk to the arch de triomphe. Man, what a way to start a day, breaktaking. Oh, I must mention on the way there we started busted out a rap with all the french words we knew with some beatboxing, quite hilarious. From the Arch we walked to Trocodero, walked up the steps and BAM right there is Eiffel Tower, perfectly aligned with it. Right there it really hit me, we were in Paris, Paris! Took some pics then headed on over to the Eiffel, stopping for a much deserved Ice Cream on the way. Got in line ... read more

We got in on our SkyEurope flight (which eclipsed EasyJet qs my favorite airline) about 30 minutes early. We took the long train trip from Paris Orly airport to downtown Paris, switched metro lines twice, and finally reached the area near the Arc de Triomphe. Side note, I want to apologize for any typos, because as in all of Europe, the keyboards are different, and the letters are all over. Anyways, as soon as I got off the Metro, our thoughts of the French people were proved wrong within 10 seconds. We were looking at our map, and a father and a son stopped and without hesitating, helped us to find the Hilton Arc de Triomphe. Granted it was only like 100 yards away; but they were so nice and helpful, not the rude and snobby ... read more

Tomorrow's our departure day - we are excited that it's finally here! Next time we check in with you, we'll be in Paris! ... read more