Day 2 of Paris was as amazing as the first, though a bit different. I woke up after a surprisingly good night sleep in a rather not great bed. We left the hostel and went to find a gluten free bakery for Julie. It was not too bad to find and I was glad she got the food she could eat. I didn’t get anything, but only cause they didn’t have chocolate croissants. After the food was eaten and relaxing there we left and took the Metro to Notre Dame, and wandered around that area until we found a little café to have brunch. I had a crepe with chocolate and chocolate milk (chocolat froid)! It was really good! After eating we, took some pictures at the Notre Dame (only the outside since the line was really long). We then took the Metro to the Louvre, got there about 1:00 PM and decided to meet up at 4:30 PM under the glass pyramid. Admission for the Louvre is surprisingly not too expensive, only 10 euros.
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| My chocolat crepe |
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| Chocolat froid |
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| Notre Dame |
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| Notre Dame |
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| Notre Dame |
The Louvre was magnificent! We went to the Mona Lisa first, and it was busy as I anticipated. As people moved aside we moved forward, and eventually we could see it pretty well. After the Mona Lisa we moved around that area more and saw some other paintings, very beautiful. It was amazing how many are religion-inspired. One room we found was beautiful and had gold all over. It had paintings of sculptures and King Louis XV and XIV. My favorite part of the room was in the back, where there were a couple crowns that were originally Louis XV’s! It was really cool to see!
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| Sphynx in Egypt section! |
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| Louis XV crowns! |
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| Mona Lisa |
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| Easter Island Head |
The Louvre was really cool and really big. My favorite part (tied with the Mona Lisa) was the giant Egyptian exhibit. They had a lot of amazing artifacts which I was really happy to see. After getting lost in the Egyptian section, we sat outside by the fountains near the glass pyramid. It was nice to sit and relax in front of one of the most famous museums in the world. At 4:30 we met up with our group of about 6, and walked down the street a bit, where we ran into a ride of motorcycles of some sort. There were at least several hundred and had a police escort and everything. It was really random but really cool that we ran into it. We then took the Metro to the Eiffel Tower, where we met up with the rest of the group. Once meeting up with them I had a good dinner (Steake Grille avec frites) steak and fries.
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| Motorcycle Ride |
Afterwards one of the people really wanted to see the Moulin Rouge so a couple of us went with him.It was not quite my favorite area but it was an experience. We didn’t stay long and we left to go to the coach station to travel home!
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| Moulin Rouge |
We made our way back to the coach station and met the group, before heading back on the long ride home. We left at 9:30, meaning I wasn’t tired yet, therefore I talked to a couple people on the way to the channel, where we actually got to take a ferry across! Customs was a pain, cause they asked questions again and I was nervous. Back on the bus to get to the ferry we were taking across the channel, we were talking to a couple girls, one from New Zealand, one from Ireland, and we were joking about things that would make them turn us away. They will probably remember us as the students who are working for the government. The ferry was huge, it was neat cause we sat in the lounge area and I got a snack of potato chips and apple juice (which was really good!) After the ferry rise I fell asleep and woke up back in London. We arrived back at 5:30 AM, and took the Tube back to Nido.
Over the weekend was cool cause we traveled to 4 different time zones: London, Paris, Paris daylight savings, London daylight savings. Talk about confusing time zones!
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