Gay Paris

As I currently sit on the train to Nice, having only 2.5hrs left of my 12hr day of travel left, and the smell of McDonalds wafting in the air, I consider this to be the perfect time to write a blog (really, what else do I have to do?!)
4 days ago Nat and I landed in Paris. It was a crazy feeling having less than 2hr hour flight to get to a totally different country! Once we arrived, we had to take a 2hr bus ride to get to the centre of Paris, then a train trip to our hotel. Loosing an hour through time changes, and been very tired, all i wanted to do was get to our hotel, but once on the train, a busker playing the accordion joined us and played for the time of our trip. This was such a great entrance to France, being welcomed by an accordion. :)
Once we woke early the next day (having had to literally push Nat out of bed so we could leave at an early hour) we trecked to the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, The Lourve and down the Champs de Leysee. The day was very enjoyable, apart from a waiter at lunch time giving us bottled 6.5Euro water. (lets just say I was less then impressed to pay for it!) To all those playing at home, 6.5Euro is around $10...yeah, not cool. Don't get me wrong, this was a lovely day, but along with the expensive water, rude waiters, dehydration, cleaners on strike at the Louvre (therefore no toilets and trash EVERYWHERE), and trying to adapt to a country where you not only can't understand their accents, but also their language, this day was possibly my least favourite in Paris.
(but don't worry, it all gets better from there)

Day 2 called for DISNEYLAND!! :D not only was i pumped to go here, but excited that after being in Euro Disney, I would have officially visited all 5 Disneylands in the world :) <--and i'm not ashamed to admit this!
It was truly a day of magic, but after having our second over 20degree day consecutively and not enough water, it was followed by headachs and an early night. It's so strange how 20degrees can effect you so much when you are use to 5degrees! I never thought I'd think that 20degrees was hot, but no, I stand corrected!

Day 3 was my favourite day. We travelled to Notredame and went to the Latin Quarter. It felt like i was no longer a tourist here, having MASSIVE paninis and grilled cheese hotdogs for lunch off a side street shop, and walking through the backstreets of the Latin quarter with music playing all around, this is why I wanted to visit Paris. Unfortuntely, we then had to go book our tickets to Nice, where we found out that the only avaiable tickets would have 2 interchanges, and we would be 12hr in transit. This was a mistake we shall not make again. once we get to each station, we are going to book our next tickets, although 12hrs on a train and a waisted day in France sounds appealing, it's actually not as fun as advertised!
To finish off the night we took the train into Bastille wewre we had savoury crepes for dinner (after firstly discifering what was in them...) It was a perfect way to celebrate our last night in Paris!

This leads us onto today. After feeling rather sickly this morning, we took it easy, waking up early to shower, have breakfast, pack and check out, we then went to a French church service. Admittadly, this would have been about 60% better if i could understand what was happening and didn't feel like i was going to faint for 3/4 of the service, but it was still a lovely and culture imersing experience. We then moved on to the Bastille market, filled with fresh fruit and veg, seafood, clothes, nick nacks oh hand even paella (which we bought for lunch! :D ) This little market made me feel so much better!
we then moved onto our train station, getting prepared for our exhausting 12hr train trip. Having ow visited Lyon and Marseille for a whole 1.5hrs each I can say that i'm probably not better for it, as i only saw 10feet out the door. but I'm glad that we are nearly in Nice now. Beaches and crossants await our arrival.

until next time.