Bonjour! 5th-10th August

Our next destination was the beautiful city of Paris, France. So we hoped on our first bus and while watching movies and tv series on the bus we crossed the German boarder and were in France. 4 hours later we were driving through Paris. This city is amazing. Everyone is really nice and the feeling you have when you are there is indescribable. We loved it!

On our first day we took a 'free' walking tour which lasted 4 hours. This did not turn out to be free as you are expected to tip the guide at the end. False advertising! But it turned out to be worth it, as we got shown to all the major sites and gave us our bearings for the rest of the trip. The weather there was absolutley gorgeous for the first few days but then we had rain for a few days, not that it stopped us from getting out and exploring!

We saw Notre Dame and went inside to have a look, it is such a lovely building, so much detail, and the gargoyles are way cool. We also stumbled into an area known as the Latin Quarter where we mananged to find some super cool streets with some tasty food to eat. It was a really bohemien area where we were told lots of student's hang out. We tried to find this area on another day and as we didn't take any notice of the street names it took us 3 hours of walking to refind it again! We really liked the food there so we visited it 3 times in all.

We were super excited to visit the Moulin Rouge and we did this on the Thursday night. It was so cool! Their costumes are fabulous, their dancing was fairly average but everything else was super cool so it didn't matter. In the show there was also a ventriliquist, acrobatics, a juggler and the coolest was this lady who swam in a giant tank filled with water and snakes!! On Friday we visited the Louvre, this place is so huge! I swear we walked at least 3km and we barley even got through 1 third of the place. I saw the Mona Lisa but to do this I had to push my way through the hundreds of tourists who were taking photos of it. We also saw some other famous artworks but I cant' remember all thier names! After the gallery we went to sit in the park to eat crepes and watch the Eiffel Tower which was all lit up. It was magical, and on the hour the put lights on that twinkle and you here everyone in the park go ooooo, it's great! We didn't go up it then but decided to wake up super early the next morning to try and beat the crowds which kind of worked, but we still had to wait a little while to go up. And no, we didn't climb to the second floor, we just lifted it all the way up! The view was spectacular! Something I will not forget quickly!

On our last day, we bought some delicious pastries and went and sat down beside the River Seine and watched the boats go by, I think this was one of my favourite parts of Paris. That night we went to the hightest point in Paris which has the Sacre Coueur which is a lovely church and we ate cheese and drank wine on the hill until we got chased out by security as they were closing!

It was kind of sad to leave Paris as we just had such a good time, and loved just walking around and finding new things but the adventure must continue!

Au Revoir