Wow what a day we had yesterday, i am sending this blog at around 2pm Paris time which is about an hour after getting out of bed! ( sleepy head i know! ) Let me explain yesterday we started our day with breakfast at 6.30am which meant a 5.45 wake up call we then travelled to the beautiful palace of Versaille which was magnificent and very over the top as you would expect of Royalty, following that we went to the Louvre and viewed some of the most famous artworks in history back to the hotel around 3pm for a quick shower and we had to catch the Metro ( Subway ) into Paris to meet up with our tour company for our evening exploits.
The Metro is great very similar to the London Tube and just as efficient, we had no hassles navigating the streets to the office which left us an hour just to sit and smell the roses in a beautiful park in the city, Parisians love the outdoors they eat, read, play talk, smoke ( Yuk ) outdoors they can be seen at all hours enjoying themselves outside, anyway we travelled to the Eiffel Tower for our meal on the first level it was really nice with 3 courses served in just over an hour with wine of course! followed by a lovelly cruise down the Seinne River at dusk, that was magnificent and quite romantic i may add! from there we travelled to the famous Moulin Rouge and unfortunately due to them trying to cram 1000 people in a thatre designed for 600 it was very cramped and to see the stage you had to crane around the persons head in front of you which as you can imagine caused issues with those behind you, I saw dozens of people rubbing sore necks from the awkward positions they had to assume to see!
As far as a show is concerned it was very dissapointing and take it from me normally barev breasted females gets an automatic thunbs up but the show was dull with no real cohesion and the highlights really were the in between specialty acts they had between the dancers, a ventriloquist, some acrobats and a juggler ( who was awesome ) still we have seen it now and can tick it off our to do list.
We arrived back at our hotel at 2am and went to sleep at 2.30am so please cut us a lttle slack in our little sleep in!!
Today we will take an easy Metro into the city wander aimlessly have a meal at a cafe before heading back to our hotel and resting before our morning flight to Venice, Sam has packed our bags and we are ready to go!
Look forward to talking to you from lovely Italy tomorrow till then Ciau.
Love you all and a special mention to Dad hope you are recovering well from your Op and all our love and best wishes are with you xxxx
Talk to you all soon Ralf Sam MM xxxxx
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeleteWow, wow and more wow!!! Sounds like you had one very busy day! The photos are beautiful and really show the enjoyment you are having. Just a shame about the Moulin Rougue not being a highlight.
Hope you have enjoyed a more leisurely paced afternoon today, after your well deserved sleepin!
Venice tomorrow, how exciting. I know you are both just going to love it. You really have to see it to believe it. It is amazing :).
Safe travels. Look forward to the Gondola photos!!
Love to you both.
Lynn xoxo
PS Spoke to your Mum Ralf. All is going well with your Dad. You don't have to worry. xoxo
My goodness no wonder why you slept so much. Venice is absolutely amazing make sure you walk far and wide through Venice. So much to see and so much history, the town is a engineering marvel.
ReplyDeleteHope the weather gets better for you and it is not so hot. Just letting you know that Voss has been appointed for a further two years.
Must go lots of painting to go on with.
Gerv