Paris

Where do i begin? When we first arrived we managed to miss the train from Beauvais to Le Gare Du Nord by 1 minute, so to pass the time waiting on the next train, me and Rob went and got the first beers in of the holiday and sat outside and enjoyed the glorious weather. Once we finally got the train it was an hour and a half until we arrived in Paris. We found the Le Village Hostel with no real problem, and we dropped off our bags and went and got something to eat and book our ticket for Berlin. That night we went out for tea and then sat in a pub and watched a bit of the tennis before heading up to the Sacre Couer where everyone in the area seems to congregate and enjoy their carry-outs!



The next day we made the trip on the metro into the centre of Paris and visited the Louvre and Notre Dame, I received a call from my work seeing if I knew I was due to be in that evening! We then went a World War 2 tour and seen the Holocaust monument, Nazi HQ and where the insurrection in Paris began. We then walked up the Champs Elysees and I went up the Arch Di Triomphe. An absolutly spectacular view from the top, especially being able to see Robert, who's scared of heights, sitting on a bench below me! That evening we just sat up in the hostel and had a few beers.



Yesterday we took the metro down towards the Eiffel Tower, we didn't go up it though as there were massive queues for lifts, and I didn't fancy the wait. We then headed over to the Holocaust museum and spent some time wandering around it and seen the 'Wall of Names', a huge wall which is covered with the names of the 76,000 Jews from France that were wiped off the face of the planet by the Nazis and Vichy government. We then visited Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde's graves on what happened to be the anniversary of Morrisons death in 1971, so there was plenty of hairy rockers paying there respects to the good man, while Oscar Wilde's grave was covered in lipstick messages and kisses from adoring fans.

Today we have wandered around the Monmatre area of Paris where we are staying, while we wait for the train. At 8.20pm we should be advancing on Berlin for the next leg of our trip. I'll try and get some photos uploaded to the blog at some point but just now that's not possible. I'll hopefully post again in a few days.

-Steven