Je ne comprends pas, parlez-vous anglais?, Now this can go 2 ways . Oui, can i please have the ham and cheese sandwich. or Non, then Je voudrais un sandwich au jambon et fromage.
Just as well the ham and cheese baguettes are magnifique as that was the limit of my french. Just as well Kat could bust out the odd french sentence!!!
So... Pari, well we hopped on the Eurostar and got to Pari on Saturday morning, we managed to find our hotel from the metro on the cr
azy double decker subway trains, lets just say the paris metro is a whole lot more reliable than the tube. We met up with Tim and Emma who had just arrived from Nouvelle-Zélande and headed to the Tower d'Eiffel. It took a while to warm to the mass of metal but after standing on it and seeing it at night it slowly grew on us.
Just as well the ham and cheese baguettes are magnifique as that was the limit of my french. Just as well Kat could bust out the odd french sentence!!!
So... Pari, well we hopped on the Eurostar and got to Pari on Saturday morning, we managed to find our hotel from the metro on the cr
azy double decker subway trains, lets just say the paris metro is a whole lot more reliable than the tube. We met up with Tim and Emma who had just arrived from Nouvelle-Zélande and headed to the Tower d'Eiffel. It took a while to warm to the mass of metal but after standing on it and seeing it at night it slowly grew on us. The highlight tourist trap was the Louvre where the holy Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo reside, the whole place is truly amazing. We also managed to check out Champs Elysées and Arc de Triomphe which is truly post card paris. We also managed to check out a number of the local drink
ing and eating establishments. On the food front the highlights were the local boulangerie and fresh baguettes and pain au chocolat , unbelievably good.
On the drinking front the leffe and Hoegarden beers the size of our heads were interesting as was the popcorn they brought us .. maybe they thought we had had enough. After spending a large amount of euro on beer, we had some good luck , coming across a local pub with 2.50 euro pints during their happy hour... (As context a pint was costing 6 /7 euro), even better news was that happy hour went from 4 -9. We got there at 5 and left at 9 but not before partaking in the local quiz. The crazy French MC had great delight referring to us as Team aoteorea from Nouvelle-Zélande ..
So Paris is an interesting city that outside the central district is very very different with some good and dodge areas (just ask Tim & Em about the portaits they were schemed into spending lots of euros on), a very segmented city with different areas having very different feels and local vibe.
ing and eating establishments. On the food front the highlights were the local boulangerie and fresh baguettes and pain au chocolat , unbelievably good.On the drinking front the leffe and Hoegarden beers the size of our heads were interesting as was the popcorn they brought us .. maybe they thought we had had enough. After spending a large amount of euro on beer, we had some good luck , coming across a local pub with 2.50 euro pints during their happy hour... (As context a pint was costing 6 /7 euro), even better news was that happy hour went from 4 -9. We got there at 5 and left at 9 but not before partaking in the local quiz. The crazy French MC had great delight referring to us as Team aoteorea from Nouvelle-Zélande ..
So Paris is an interesting city that outside the central district is very very different with some good and dodge areas (just ask Tim & Em about the portaits they were schemed into spending lots of euros on), a very segmented city with different areas having very different feels and local vibe.
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Sounds great! When are you going again??
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