Blogs from Île-de-France, France, Europe - page 495

Our first trip on Eurostar! Was great! Kids and B loved it. Had 2 really nice nights in Paris with the Limmers. The city was wonderful and the French were very friendly & helpful. The food and tourist attractions were superb.... read more

Well, as October was coming to a close, my classes were becoming more demanding, and we started to settle into Parisian life. However, Halloween in one of my favorite holidays, and I did not want to totally miss out on it just because we were here in France. Luckily for us, Disneyland Paris had a Halloween themed month in October, and I was interested in seeing if the Disneyland over here measured up to the original southern California Park. It was a lot of fun. For the most part the parks are the same as each other, but there were some surprising differences. For one thing the rollercoasters Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain are much more like real rollercoasters here than in the original. Thunder Mountain actually includes a fairly large drop that carries you under ... read more

I got off the train at Gare du Nord, in Paris, after my spur of the moment decision the night before and had absolutely no idea where I was, or how to get anywhere. The obvious decision would have been to have taken the metro as I was in a train station but I wanted to go outside and see what it was like. There was a streetmap on the bus stop outside so I studied that for a while and sort of worked out which way Sacre Couer was but I was still endeavouring not to look like a tourist so didn't want to stay staring at the map too long. Looking back now it was pretty obvious that I am not in fact Parisian, but anyway. I did eventually find Sacre Couer and saw ... read more

Visited the city of Paris and am/ was very impressed by the French ability to build new and exciting structures side by side with many ancient and impressive structures which contain beautiful paints and works of art. The Lourve is a whole days worth of site seeing all on its own and the river seine is majestic and beautiful and so worth seeing for yourself - go when you can.... read more

Well I don’t know where to start. Today’s actual date is the first of March. Yikes! That means I have 6 months worth of activity to sum up, for posterities sake. Okay. Well, over the last 6 months, I have sent out a few e-mails, so some of this will be old news to you all, but bear with me. So, I guess I will start in the beginning. After months of preparation, we arrived in Paris on the 23 of August. We each had two large pieces of luggage and a carry on in addition to our laptops. Of course we decided not to get a shuttle. Our flight was coming in pretty late, and that made it difficult to find a shuttle service that was willing to pick us up (a slight lack of ... read more