Paris has lived up to all of our expectations and more, such a beautiful city! Although there has been the odd occasion where we haven't been so sure...
Things we don't necessarily love about the City of Lights:
- Public toilets - ew ew ew, pretty much disgusting!
- Crowds everywhere, we're almost embarrassed to be tourists ourselves, can't get away from the likes of us
- French keyboards; no QWERTY system here, no, they've gone and made it impossible for me to touchtype - it's taken me 40 minutes to type this so far...seriously
- Bit smelly in some places and lots and lots of graffiti
Things we love and would come back for time and time again:
- Boulangeries, oh la la, delicious, can't get enough of the sweet stuff
- The city at night. We had our first experience of it last night and it was beautiful! The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe were magnificent!
Things we don't necessarily love about the City of Lights:
- Public toilets - ew ew ew, pretty much disgusting!
- Crowds everywhere, we're almost embarrassed to be tourists ourselves, can't get away from the likes of us
- French keyboards; no QWERTY system here, no, they've gone and made it impossible for me to touchtype - it's taken me 40 minutes to type this so far...seriously
- Bit smelly in some places and lots and lots of graffiti
Things we love and would come back for time and time again:
- Boulangeries, oh la la, delicious, can't get enough of the sweet stuff
- The city at night. We had our first experience of it last night and it was beautiful! The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe were magnificent!
- The parks at almost every corner, so well maintained and picturesque, perfect for our ham and cheese baguette lunch breaks
- Cafe cremes and cafe glaces - Matt is officially a coffee addict!
- Cafe cremes and cafe glaces - Matt is officially a coffee addict!
- The French people, they've been so so friendly, hard to believe that we haven't come across an arrogant one ... yet
- Waiting less than 4 min for a train at any given time on any given metro line
- Seeing the Mona Lisa up close and personal
I suppose I could keep writing, but that's our list for now; we haven't seen everything yet, so don't want to get too carried away! Tommorow we're venturing out to Versailles to have a look at the bike inspections for the ride Matt was going to do (Paris-Brest-Paris), and early next week we leave for Brest itself. We've arranged to hire a car and have been trying to familiarise ourselves with the road rules - it's definitely going to be an experience!The language barrier hasn't been quite so bad, for me anyway, Matt has been doing most of the talking, which is great! Although we did go to a bar and up Matt went to order - deux bieres et un 'shephards pie' s'il vous plait - to which the barman replied - you're sitting right over there aren't you - in the broadest yorkshire accent you ever heard...hilarious!Au revior!
4 comments:
Ah, yes... no qwerty keyboards... stupid french! Not such a huge problem for me, as I've never been much of a touch typist.
The photos are gorgeous... much as I loved travelling in winter (mmmm, cold) there were no flowers and it was a biatch having to take my gloves off every time I wanted to take a pic!
Have fun, and boulangerie it up for me! Mwah!
wonderful photo's guys,it was just like having a wee tour round Paris from the comfort of home lol
i'm so excited for you both....
keep them coming!!!!!!
Love Deekie and May
Hey Hey there Stormer and Matt. We have exactly 19 days until we leave. Can't wait to catch up with you guys and swap stories and photos'. So how is the weathere there?
Jayjay
Hi Matt & Storm
Have looked at your photos - what a great adventure - keep us posted, the family is all looking at your posts.
D & D.
Post a Comment