Paris - the city of Love
Caught the Eurostar from London to Paris today. It’s a high speed train system that links the two countries; overall the ride was fairly comfortable. The plane would have been a lot cheaper but we wanted to experience everything. For the first night we booked a hotel close to Garde Du Norde station and celebrated our first night in Paris with a steak dinner at a cute little restaurant where no one spoke English.
We were up nice and early the next morning ready to find our second Hotel in the Suburb of St Paul’s. France has a fantastic subway system and Jacky mastered the maps very quickly. After we recovered from carrying our luggage we went out in search of food. This proved to be a rather difficult task since everything was in French. It was wrong to assume that we would be ok communicating in English. Not being able to speak their language definitely made us feel very helpless at times.
In the following days we made a big effort to see all that we could. We did a lot of shopping at La Defense – France lives up to its title as the fashion capital in every way. We visited Notre Dame, and made our way down Champs –Elysees making sure that we popped into the Louis Vuitton shop while we were there. The Louve looked magnificent; we didn't have enough money to go in to see the Mona Lisa so we just ran around the outside of the building and peeked in the windows.
We spent a whole day at Disney Land Paris and became kids again. I took a picture with Winnie the Pooh and visited Cinderella’s castle. We went on many rides and some very embarrassing photos were taken right as the rollercoaster dropped. Jacky made sure that he bought all the pictures.
The greatest moment in Paris was when we went to the Eiffel Tower – it took my breath away! The view at the top is exhilarating; it must have been one of the most beautiful sights that I have ever seen. I was extremely caught up in the moment and realised that I was this one little person in a massive world. Suddenly all the negativity, stress and worries that ate at me disappeared and I was able to let many things go. Standing there at the top of the Eiffel Tower over looking Paris was a life changing moment for me – one that I can’t really explain; I have never looked back and often try to re-capture the moment whenever I feel overwhelmed or lost.
We spent our last day in Paris catching up with family friends and were treated to a very fancy French restaurant with the finest French cuisine. It was really sad to leave such a beautiful country and I felt so lucky to have had this experience.
We were up nice and early the next morning ready to find our second Hotel in the Suburb of St Paul’s. France has a fantastic subway system and Jacky mastered the maps very quickly. After we recovered from carrying our luggage we went out in search of food. This proved to be a rather difficult task since everything was in French. It was wrong to assume that we would be ok communicating in English. Not being able to speak their language definitely made us feel very helpless at times.
In the following days we made a big effort to see all that we could. We did a lot of shopping at La Defense – France lives up to its title as the fashion capital in every way. We visited Notre Dame, and made our way down Champs –Elysees making sure that we popped into the Louis Vuitton shop while we were there. The Louve looked magnificent; we didn't have enough money to go in to see the Mona Lisa so we just ran around the outside of the building and peeked in the windows.
We spent a whole day at Disney Land Paris and became kids again. I took a picture with Winnie the Pooh and visited Cinderella’s castle. We went on many rides and some very embarrassing photos were taken right as the rollercoaster dropped. Jacky made sure that he bought all the pictures.
The greatest moment in Paris was when we went to the Eiffel Tower – it took my breath away! The view at the top is exhilarating; it must have been one of the most beautiful sights that I have ever seen. I was extremely caught up in the moment and realised that I was this one little person in a massive world. Suddenly all the negativity, stress and worries that ate at me disappeared and I was able to let many things go. Standing there at the top of the Eiffel Tower over looking Paris was a life changing moment for me – one that I can’t really explain; I have never looked back and often try to re-capture the moment whenever I feel overwhelmed or lost.
We spent our last day in Paris catching up with family friends and were treated to a very fancy French restaurant with the finest French cuisine. It was really sad to leave such a beautiful country and I felt so lucky to have had this experience.
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