Ah.......Paris

Bonsoir everyone

Ah!! Paris

The city of ……. everything – quite often we say “I thought we had seen it all now” but that sentence continues to repeat itself numerous times over! As the Mastercard TV ad would say…

Two ice-creams in Paris - $37.00

One lunch in Paris $90.00

Two small beers in Paris $17.00

The look on Brent’s face when Rae said she had just paid $5 to use the cleanest toilets in Paris….priceless!!!

Well you would have realised by now we are the making the most of being here and enjoying it all and have stopped converting prices!

Yesterday we caught the Metro (Underground train) into the city where our first stop was the Arc de Triomphe which is a huge monument that Napoleon had wanted built for his soldiers to march through after victory, we walked up the 284 stairs to a magnificent view of Paris. The Arc has 12 avenues that run out from it and the traffic has no real sense of rules for giving way – see photo.

We then hopped on a bus tour that took us around Paris showing us the sights including the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, River Seine and some of the beautiful bridges, we then walked up the Champs Elysees and window shopped, Brent liked the Lamborghini. The weather was a perfect spring day in Paris, 27 degrees!

We have been up the Eiffel Tower today – wow, wow,wow a real pinch ourselves it is a real moment!! We went up to the third level which is basically at the top just over 300 meters up, views totally unobstructed and we could see how huge Paris and the surrounding areas are. We then went to the Notre Dame Cathedral, a stunning piece of construction, the huge stain glass windows that were all around the cathedral were spectacular – there was a church service being conducted as we walked around so felt quite privileged to have been there. From there we had some lunch and just wandered around Paris – tomorrow we are planning on going to the Louvre and have a Paris by night tour and a Moulin Rouge show booked for the night time.

We had heard that Paris is a really dirty city with lots of beggars – the city has obviously tried to clean it up as the streets have been very clean with only a few beggars. We have also commented that the architecture here is all unpainted bleached stone, a complete contrast to the UK where everything there was red brick.

Hope this finds everyone well!

We off to bed to replenish our energy for a big day tomorrow.

Bonne nuit

Madame and Monsieur Fisher