October 13th
October 13th, 2006 at 2:25pm
| Friday was our first real chance to see the sights of Paris. we started off where things were meant to go yesterday with a trip to the Notre Dame cathedral it is an amazing sight with its wing buttresses and gargoyles. Didn’t see the hunchback but there were a few bums around who resembled him. |
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| We saw a tourist cruise and decided to take it, it had about a dozen stops an you could use it all day, our first stop was the Eiffel tower. this is one of the most amazing sights in pairs. there were thousands there, the que would have been 3 to four hours so we decided not to waste our day. the tower like many of the other icons and major stations are patrolled by machine gun armed army personnel, which gives you a funny feeling.
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| The palaces, galleries and monuments along the water were amazing, Paris is the most beautiful and artistic city i have seen in the world.
We crossed the river for a look at the trocadero and got a great lunch from a breadshop close by. Seeing that 1/2 the F1rench population seem to roam the streets with a French stick in their arms we thought it only fitting to have a French stick filled with a hotdog, melted cheese, sauce and mustard, all washed down with a can of beer overlooking the tower, life is so hard. |
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| Back on the boat and cruising up the river, we get off near Notre dame again and see the popedom centre, its a weird modern building with all the services and stairs on the outside. a couple of beers for afternoon tea then another few kms of sights before hitting a Turkish restaurant for dinner.
we headed back to hotel, grabbed our bags and headed to Paris nord station for the Euro star train to London. |
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