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Paris

The city of love... :-)

As you know from my previous post, our flight was delayed from Barcelona to Paris so we got in alot later than we had thought we would. We arrived in Paris, took a train from the airport to the closest station to our hotel and walked from there. We stayed at an Ibis Hotel as we found the Airbnb's and backpackers were actually more expensive than a hotel. We weren't expecting too much from it but we were pleasantly surprised with our small but clean room. It was around thirty minutes from the city and in a bustling area with a river and lots of summer festivities going on.





On Monday, we got ourselves some bikes that are plotted around the city. Basically the first 30 minutes is free and then they start charging. So being backpackers on a budget, we rode around and every 30 minutes we checked our bikes back into one of the bike slots, waited two minutes and then pulled them out again, meaning we got them for free! We biked all around the city and had a picnic in view of the Eiffel Tower.








We planned to hit the Louvre on Tuesday but I (Grace) fell ill with a severe headache (migraine?!) on Monday night and slept until 2pm Tuesday. Finally managing to pull all my energy together, we got ourselves on the metro only to find out at the Louvre that it is not open on Tuesdays. We did manage to buy tickets however, so that we could head there in the morning and see a little more of the city before our flight to Rome in the evening.





It was hilarious how many tourists were standing in front of the Mona Lisa........








Next up was Rome. Blog on it's way.

xxx G & T







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