Its great to see how much you have been following me while we journeyed around Europe. Its really nice to hear from all of you almost every day. Sorry that my posts aren't up to date but I will try to correct that with this post.
Sorry for the confusion Alexander, but what I meant was while you were in England last year, did you go to London, and if so what did you see there?
In Paris the day after Versailles we climbed the Eiffel tower, though we weren't allowed onto the top level. We all loved the view of Paris from the second floor of the Eiffel tower. It was amazing that, while up on the tower on the second floor you felt so high, but viewing it from the ground you could see that the second floor is only around halfway up.
We then walked to the beginning of the Champs de Elysees and then across to the Louvre. We only had about one and a half hours at the Louvre, which wasn't nearly enough, but we used that time to see enough to get a taste. We saw some renaissance paintings as well as medieval paintings and classical Greek sculptures. We also managed to get a peek at the Mona Lisa and were more surprised at the queue, or lack of it, than the paintings size.
After the Louvre we didn't do anything in Paris for the rest of the day.
The next day we traveled to Gare Nord, the main station where the Eurostar leaves from. We dumped our luggage there and caught the 42 bus, on the recommendation of someone in the Tourist info booth. The bus took us on a route through the centre of Paris, along the Champs de Elysees, though not to the Arc de Triumph and out of the centre again. We were able to see alot of the city, especially the centre.
In all, I felt that we had seen a massive amount of Paris for how long we had there. We managed to see a lot of the main attractions, or at least get in the vicinity of them.
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