I dropped off the girls at the
train station and then the
rental car and we were off to Paris.
Another beautiful ride over the French countryside into Paris, the Porte
Nord. The train station was huge! Everyone seemed to know where they were going
even though we had no clue. We followed
the herd into the main station, and then it was time to get our bearings. Managed to figure out where we needed to go
to catch the Metro and how you paid for it.
It’s always helpful when you ask!
I’ve got no hesitation to ask anymore as it’s saved us more times than
I’d like to admit! Parle vous francais?And you get a “oui” and it’s all good. Got our tickets and after changing three
times on the Metro, we saw the light of day.
The directions to the hostel were super easy to follow and I’ve finally
figured how to screen shot the directions on my phone. That and a little forethought has made
navigating around a lot easier from the beginning of the trip.
Along the streets we passed many little markets with
beautiful fresh veggies and fruit, butchers and of course the bakeries with
their pastries and baguettes. All the
locals seem to walking around with a baguette in their hand eating it
plain. It didn’t take long for Shan and
I to figure out why! Couldn’t be any fresher
and warm... Pretty hard to get it home
without eating it all.
We checking into our hostel in the southwest of Paris and
Jenna grabbed a bottom bunk before
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| Jenna multi tasking....just got wifi! |
Shannon knew what was going on. We had to grab our own sheet and make our own
beds but this room even had its own ensuite.
Pretty hard to sit on the toilet without banging your head or knees, the
girls even complained how cramped it was!
You can just imagine.... well, please don’t.... let’s just say the only way this room would
work is that the door swings open into the bedroom. Shower, toilet and sink in a four foot by two
foot space.
We headed down to find some food at the market for dinner
and lunch tomorrow to head back to the hostel.
The cooking facilities weren’t the greatest but today we’ve been craving
salad so it was a pretty easy meal. Of
course with the nice fresh salad we had to have a fresh baguette. Earlier to bed so we could hit the sidewalk
running tomorrow to explore our first day in Paris!
Oh, and by the way, did I say I now love to travel on the
fast trains! They fly and give you a
great view at the same time. That and I
don’t have to worry about speed limits, what side of the road to drive on, whether
it’s a one way street or just a really narrow road, or how to get through the
crazy round abouts!
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