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Posted by: Michael Monday, June 25, 2007
We both loved Paris and had an exciting but exhausting time. We booked a coach online, which turned out to be a bad decision. The coach started from London at 11pm and was set to arrive in Paris at about 8am ( approx 8 hour journey.) After hardly sleeping our coach boarded a massive boat ( along with about 8 other coaches and many other cars. We didn't know what was going on as we weren't aware we had to catch a boat over to Paris. At 3am we were walking around this huge boat looking at perfume, getting beers and buying a bottle of French champagne duty free. After about 1.5 hours on board we docked and made our way down to our coaches. However, we were all left waiting in the coach as there was one person missing. We finally left an hour later and decided the person must have fell over board ha-ha. Because of the delay we hit rush hour and so the journey dragged on even more. Finally we got dropped off in Paris and had to try and find our hotel that was situated about 5-10 mins from Paris on train.

Our first day was spent on the double decker tour bus. We were soo tired because we hadn't really slept at all ( a few times throughout the day we fell asleep.) But we still enjoyed ourselves looking at all the sights. We stayed at The Wilson Hotel which we would recommend. It was cozy, reasonably priced, had a good location just 5-10 mins on train from Paris and a yummy breakfast included ( too many pastries!!)

The Ifle tower, Arc De Trump and The Lurve were all amazing. We wanted to have more time to explore The Lurve as there are just too many brilliant paintings and artifacts to be seen.

One of the best days we had was on a bike tour. We met about 5 minutes walk from the Ifle Tower to organise our bikes and meet the tour group. The bike Tour Company was American, but the tour guy was really nice and cool ( Texan.) He took us to Versailles which is a beautiful old country area 20 minutes on the train from Paris. On our bikes we visited a bussling market (French people travel from afar on Sunday to buy their food from this market.) We bought some lovely fresh fruit, pastries, baguettes, cheese etc. to eat on our picnic. We experienced how the royals live hundreds of years ago in an immaculately maintained castle. If anyone is going to Paris, make sure you book this tour up to Versailles.
 


Two other things we booked up worth a mention were the Moulin Rouge and The River Cruise. You can't not enjoy the Moulin Rouge, it's one of those things you should experience if in Paris despite the expense ( about 90 Euro each. ) We booked an evening river cruise and had an amazing night. The food, scenery and atmosphere were fantastic. The night was topped off when the Ifle Tower began to sparkle with hundreds of flickering lights while we drifted past. This is another thing worth experiencing as you are able to appreciate Paris' beauty from the water. 



Luckily we didn't end up catching the coach back to London. Michael received a call while in Paris asking if he could start a job on Tuesday morning, so we had book the Euro Star    (fast train taking just 2.5 hours.) to get back to London in time. We definitely would recommend catching the Euro Star and not bothering with a coach!!
(I just opened a designer store in Paris!!)
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Re: A Weekend in Paris    By michelle on Monday, July 16, 2007
And how exactly did you think the bus was going to get over the English Channel?

You two are too funny!

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