Paris, wow it's flown by....

Well it is almost the end of our Paris adventure, we all fly out tomorrow. Learra will fly home to Melbourne and Kearie and I are heading to Austria. We have a week to fill in before our Greek adventure starts, so we are starting in Vienna for a few days and will decide from there what is next. I will miss Learra when she leaves, but it will be nice to have Kearie for a few extra weeks. Kearie and I think we will head to Copenhagen after our tour, she will only have a day and a bit, but I can spend a week. Kearie is committed to be in England on the 23rd for her orientation.

We have packed a fair bit into our few days, the girls were here longer than me so they had done a lot before I arrived, but we managed to fill the time. We spend Sunday at the tour, Monday was a rest day, laundry and a bit of shopping. Tuesday was going to be the Louvre, but it is closed on Tuesday's so we went for a walk around Paris and did a bit more shopping, Tuesday night we went to the Eiffel tour to see it twinkle at 10 and 11 pm. It is really awesome. Wednesday we did the Louvre and some shopping, then Kearie and I did the night tour of all the sites, it was lovely. Today the girls have gone to Disneyland and I went to the Palace of Versailles, what an incredible place that is, no wonder the peasants revolted!!! Wow, what a lot of decadence, while the poor starved. It was beautiful though. The girls are not back yet so I do not know how their day went, I hope they enjoy it.

I will be sorry to seperate from Learra, but I will not be sorry to leave Paris, although it is really nice and the people have been really freindly and polite (yeah a bit of a change). I am just happy to continue my journey, I have so many places to see and I have been in France a long time, so happy to keep moving at present.

While we were at the Eiffel tower, sitting on the grass, a couple of young Frenchmen decide to have a go, they were screaming abuse at each other and one was trying to kick the other. We were quite taken aback and Learra turns to Kearie (our main French speaker) and says "well how come you don't know what they are saying?". Kearie replied "Well because, he hasn't mentioned stamps once, or asked for the bill." So there you go, she cracks me up.

It has been a great week, I have loved sharing this wonderful city with the girls. We dined out on our first night and we are going out again tonight. We have had a few meals here in the apartment, the girls were hanging out for Vegies and home cooked meals. So that is what we have done mostly.

I have some pics of the girls to post, but they are on Kearie's camera and it is at present at Disneyland, so shall share them with you later.

I shall post some pics of Paris for you to see in the meantime.

Cheers for now

Lones


The Louvre


Hi All
Taken from a bridge on the Seine, near where we are staying


Kearie in part of Luxomburg Gardens


The Palace at Luxomburg Gardens


The Eiffel Tower at night, really awesome..


The room at the Louvre that holds the Mona Lisa, that's her the little painting on the back wall, all by herself..


Another room in the Louvre, it is one hell of a big place..


Venus de Milo