Blogs from France, Europe - page 1611

10.08.2004 - Week full of surprises Marseilles, France Yesterday I spent the night at a place, I would have never thought I would - in a hotel room! I arrived in Marseilles on Sunday late afternoon with intention to make as much money as possible and then depart to Spain in the morning. Whenever I come to a new city, I find a hotel and leave there my huge backpack for a few hours and if possible use some free internet when I come and pick it up. This time, too, I left the big heavy backpack in a hotel and went entertaining the streets of Marseilles. After successful evening and night, I went to the hotel and started chatting with the receptionist. After an hour or two of pleasant chat, he asked me if I ... read more

Todo empezó la primera vez que fuimos a París... a partir de ahí se abrió una gran curiosidad por conocer otros paises, por ver diferentes culturas, por mezclarnos con la gente. Nos hospedamos en el Hotel Darcet, en el barrio de Montmartre. Estuvimos en París durante 8 increíbles días, en los que disfrutamos como enanos. Vimos muchos rincones de la ciudad, vimos Eurodisney, Versailles, pasamos un día entero en el museo del Louvre. Desde muy temprano por la mañana saliamos hasta muy tarde por la noche, sin apenas descanso y disfrutando de cada imagen que nos pasaba por la retina. No sé si es porque fue el primero, pero la ciudad nos enamoró!... read more

So this is officially the most boring and irritating day of my life. However it is slightly improved by the fact that I am in Europe, under any other circumstance, I would not be happy at all right now. Jackie and I were supposed to go to Pisa today, so we left our hotel room, after getting little to no sleep and then went off to the train station in a cab that cost an unexcpected massive amount of money (details of the exact sum will not be mentioned). We recovered from that and took a train to nice. While we were waiting a combination of the heat, the horrid horrid sunburn, lack of sleep and the massive amount of cheese consumed teh day before made me nautious (the mucus is here.....SPASM SPASM!!!! - ten points ... read more

I've actually been to France before, last October made a overlong day trip on South West trains from Richmond then ferry over to Calais, all in all something to do but a bit pointless so about time it was tackled properly. This trip was travelling in a group to attend a Wedding. Journey was Eurostar to Paris then superb French TGN to Bordeaux. Checked into a charming family run hotel with straight forward crossants and coffee for breakfast of a mind blowing quality. Most activities were around the wedding but a really stylish and laid back city that bathed in sunlight is to die for. For a grand add on there was a day at the nearby beach resarch of Achachon which was as near to a proper beach resort as I've ever reached to date. ... read more

Ahhh... Lyon, so peaceful and relaxing, and so insanely hot it istne even funny. Seriouisly, I am dying here. Though it is a nice switch from the cold rain in Scotland and England, I am not used to it being so hot. Sweltering.... "Im melting, melting! oh what a world!!!!" Yeah, so thats the weather here. Very hot - if you didnt get that before...- We left PAris yesterday, sigh.... but we had an awesome timle there and I got rto see the eiffel tower which was something I had been wanting to do for years and years, so I am satisfied. We took a train to Lyon, it was a tgv, Trains de grandes vitesses or in english "a very fast train" It livved up to its name as it was indeed very fast. I ... read more