Weekend Paris Trip

Deanne and I took a weekend break to Paris on the second weekend of March.

Travel was via the Eurostor into Gare Du Nord on Friday morning and our hotel was the Emeraude Hotel Des Victoires, just a stones trow north of the Louvre.

We did A LOT of walking and managed to cover most of the standard Paris sights... although we resisted the urge to stand in queues for hours, so didn't bother making it up to the top of the "Steel Girder".

Food wise Paris was pretty good, Lunches were mostly had in Montparnasse - at an outside "fast-food" place selling filled bagets and the BEST hotdogs I have ever had! (French hotdogs kick American hotdogs ass's!!). The savoury food store just happend to be next to my absolute favourite food of the trip - a nutella crepe!!! For dinner we tried two options - a nice looking restuarant on the first night (ginger pork & pasta, and chocolate pastry thingy-majigs for dessert), and then a pizza place in some ally near our hotel on the second (Pizza, pizza and chocolate mousse). Actually the pizza place had a little winner of a pizza - smoked salmon, cheese and a blob of creme-fresh in the middle - very nice, surprisingly!!!

Otherwise there was walking, standing, more walking and some going in and out of old buildings... typical city sightseeeing. Of course there was a lot of phototaking and mine can be seen here and Deanne's can be seen here

We left a lot still to do in Paris and will go back again sometime to immerse ourselves more. This time Deanne has promised to be even better at French and I will sit back and place my order with her. I can't be expected to go and get drinks or do anything when I can't understand what's been said to me :) hehe...

Oh yes and I have been playing with Adobe Illustrator this evening - so here is another picture of the Eiffel Tower on ACID :)