P*A*R*I*S* 14-16th March (1)

Well hello! I'm back, in fact I've been back a week, so pardon me for slacking!!

On with the story....

Day One ~ Arrival in Paris

I was up at 7.30am to finish my faffing, left the house at 8.30am, got the bus at 8.45am, got the train at 9.32am and caught the Eurostar at 12.29pm. We got to Paris at 4pm French time and headed straight here to the Hotel Port Royal, our home for the next couple of days.

The hotel was quite nice compared to what we were expecting of a 1* French hotel! Except that all of the floors, corridors and stairwells were extremely crooked and you felt as if you were drunk walking along them! We had a Starbucks and McDonalds very close by - which were often the first port of call in the morning. Rue Moufftard was just around the corner, as was the Metro station Les Gobelins!!


The evening saw us take in the Tuilieres Gardens, Obelisque (with Eiffel Tower in the background), Champs Elysees and Arc de Triomphe, all before finally going to dinner!

We ate not far from the hotel in Rue Moufftard, which is full of little restaurants! The food is amazing: Onion Soup, Lamp Chops and Apple Tart all for 14 euros! We finished the evening here at the Cafe des Arts and went back to the Hotel a fair bit knackered!!

So that was Day One, short because we spent most of it in various modes of transport.
One thing of note is that, mature as we are, we got a bit of an obsession with phallic imagery over the weekend... :-x Ummm, so we've had the Obelisque and there'll be a closer shot of the Eiffel Tower. As well as a great one with a.... well read on mes cheries!!