Post by Kim on Sept 28, 2003 9:43:05 GMT -5
Crepe du fromage!!!!!
Bonjour.
Croissant, crepes, wine, and cheese!! I can live on that stuff! Well, I am enjoying my trip. Let me do a quick recap:
I started riding trains since from New Brunswick up to here. Plane trip was fine. I couldn't sleep but I wateched three movies on board: Phone Booth, What a Girl Wants (hey, its free!!) and some Italian movie that I can't think of the name right now. Alitalia rules. You have movies on demand and about 14 movies to choose from and then there is TV, Music, Documentaries and even games!!! If ever traveling overseas, I recomend Alitalia.
Because of the unability to sleep on the plane, when I arrived to Paris, I had to stay active and fight the jetlag. By that time i had been up by 24hrs straight. Not that hard to do when in Paris.
So first off, after finding my hostel and getting situated, I went off to the Rodin Museum. The guy lived in nice hotel that he rented rooms to his apprentices just to hel pay the rent. A few of his statues were spread out in the garden too. Funny thing is that he never manually did any. He just designed the pieces and the told his underlings to do it. lucky bastard.
Off I went to the Boulevard des Invalides. The day couldn't been better. Sunny and warm 72 deg out, blue skies and everything. Ohhh paris!!
I took some touristic shots and then walked my way towards the Arc de Thriumph just because it was close by. They had some sort of ceremony there so I couldn't actually cross the street to the arc. I decided that was a good spot to people watch for a while besides I was starting to feel tired for a bit. So tired in fact that I started to nod off while i was just "lounging" there. After an hour or so I went to the hostel and had planned to take a nap. I figure I was loosing my fight with jetlag but when I got there, one of the roomies was there and he had plans to go to the Eiffel Tower at nite so I tagged along since I had wanted to do so myself and off we went to the tower and climbed to the top and took some awesome pictures. I hope they come out since it was night, I am not sure how good the camera picked it up.
The night didn't end there. We befriended some girls at the tower and they had wanted to go check out this club and we were game for it. So off we took back to
their hostel to get the directions and the off to find the place. It turned into an adventure because the girl had the name of the club wrong and the address wrong too! But fortunately by asking some people around, we found the place. Didn't get in because by the time we found it, it was 1:35AM and they closed at 2
so they didn't let us in. Oh well. Off we went to walk around the Latin Quarter and eventually home. I fought the jetlag and I won.
Next day, off to lunch at the Latin Quarter and then the Louvre. Got to see the Mona Lisa! Went off for some more night shots of the Opera, the Boulevard des Invalides and just mill around PAris. Stop and got some Crepe du fromage for dinner and I was set. At night went to trendy Buddha Bar. I can say I have seen Paris jet set. Freeeking expensive drinks!! 14.50 euros for a freaking drink!!. The place though is soo cool. More a lounge than a club, but the decor, the music the atmosphere will almost make it worth it.
Day three found me at Versaille most of the day. That Louis King knew how to live it on style. That place is just plain incredibly pretentious. The gardens are too many and too beautiful. I was able to see most of them, but the last 3 of them were after they shut down the water fountains. Good pictures too. By nite went out strolling around for a bit and then off to another hipster Paris club: Barrio Latino. Drinks were not as expensive as Buddha Bar but then you had to pay a cover charge of 8 euros. Same atmosphere style, and decor, except that the music was more "latin" than in the Buddha Bar which was more like middle eastern themed music.
And then we get to today. Here I am in Amsterdam. It has been quite an interesting trip. Seen to crazy things today, just en route to the hostel. A guy broke the window and jumped off the train while in motion, and then a guy just started freaking out at the train station in Amsterdam. The later one was just a nutcase, but the first one I just cannot possibly think why he just jumped off a high speed train in motion by breaking the window.
Well, offI am to get some food and maybe a museum or two before the night sets down in misty Amsterdaam.
Au revouir!
Eternally
BARATIER
My only comfort is the Night gone Black
Bonjour.
Croissant, crepes, wine, and cheese!! I can live on that stuff! Well, I am enjoying my trip. Let me do a quick recap:
I started riding trains since from New Brunswick up to here. Plane trip was fine. I couldn't sleep but I wateched three movies on board: Phone Booth, What a Girl Wants (hey, its free!!) and some Italian movie that I can't think of the name right now. Alitalia rules. You have movies on demand and about 14 movies to choose from and then there is TV, Music, Documentaries and even games!!! If ever traveling overseas, I recomend Alitalia.
Because of the unability to sleep on the plane, when I arrived to Paris, I had to stay active and fight the jetlag. By that time i had been up by 24hrs straight. Not that hard to do when in Paris.
So first off, after finding my hostel and getting situated, I went off to the Rodin Museum. The guy lived in nice hotel that he rented rooms to his apprentices just to hel pay the rent. A few of his statues were spread out in the garden too. Funny thing is that he never manually did any. He just designed the pieces and the told his underlings to do it. lucky bastard.
Off I went to the Boulevard des Invalides. The day couldn't been better. Sunny and warm 72 deg out, blue skies and everything. Ohhh paris!!
I took some touristic shots and then walked my way towards the Arc de Thriumph just because it was close by. They had some sort of ceremony there so I couldn't actually cross the street to the arc. I decided that was a good spot to people watch for a while besides I was starting to feel tired for a bit. So tired in fact that I started to nod off while i was just "lounging" there. After an hour or so I went to the hostel and had planned to take a nap. I figure I was loosing my fight with jetlag but when I got there, one of the roomies was there and he had plans to go to the Eiffel Tower at nite so I tagged along since I had wanted to do so myself and off we went to the tower and climbed to the top and took some awesome pictures. I hope they come out since it was night, I am not sure how good the camera picked it up.
The night didn't end there. We befriended some girls at the tower and they had wanted to go check out this club and we were game for it. So off we took back to
their hostel to get the directions and the off to find the place. It turned into an adventure because the girl had the name of the club wrong and the address wrong too! But fortunately by asking some people around, we found the place. Didn't get in because by the time we found it, it was 1:35AM and they closed at 2
so they didn't let us in. Oh well. Off we went to walk around the Latin Quarter and eventually home. I fought the jetlag and I won.
Next day, off to lunch at the Latin Quarter and then the Louvre. Got to see the Mona Lisa! Went off for some more night shots of the Opera, the Boulevard des Invalides and just mill around PAris. Stop and got some Crepe du fromage for dinner and I was set. At night went to trendy Buddha Bar. I can say I have seen Paris jet set. Freeeking expensive drinks!! 14.50 euros for a freaking drink!!. The place though is soo cool. More a lounge than a club, but the decor, the music the atmosphere will almost make it worth it.
Day three found me at Versaille most of the day. That Louis King knew how to live it on style. That place is just plain incredibly pretentious. The gardens are too many and too beautiful. I was able to see most of them, but the last 3 of them were after they shut down the water fountains. Good pictures too. By nite went out strolling around for a bit and then off to another hipster Paris club: Barrio Latino. Drinks were not as expensive as Buddha Bar but then you had to pay a cover charge of 8 euros. Same atmosphere style, and decor, except that the music was more "latin" than in the Buddha Bar which was more like middle eastern themed music.
And then we get to today. Here I am in Amsterdam. It has been quite an interesting trip. Seen to crazy things today, just en route to the hostel. A guy broke the window and jumped off the train while in motion, and then a guy just started freaking out at the train station in Amsterdam. The later one was just a nutcase, but the first one I just cannot possibly think why he just jumped off a high speed train in motion by breaking the window.
Well, offI am to get some food and maybe a museum or two before the night sets down in misty Amsterdaam.
Au revouir!
Eternally
BARATIER
My only comfort is the Night gone Black