24 hours in Paris
(please pardon all spellings. i ain't french.)

We had a short time to spend in Paris and we definitely made the most of it. After arriving at Charles De Gaulle, we immediately hopped on the extensive (which rhymes with expensive) public transport system which deliviered us within 200m of our hotel. Lugged our luggage to our room, quick wash, and we were back out on the cobbled streets.

First stop: Eiffel Tower. It always surprises me, seeing any famous sight. The Golden Gate Bridge, Half Dome, and now the Eiffel Tower. The art-deco icon was bigger than i thought it would be, definitely bigger than the one at King's Island, and more elegant than I could have imagined. The very top was shrouded with a fog that gave the whole thing an orangish glow. Took a lot of pictures.
From there we strolled through the cold, along the Seine to start of the Champs Elysees and then down too the Arc de Triumph. Nuff for the first day.
Next day, we packed in a week's worth of sight-seeing trapsing in the early morning to hear nuns sing at the Sacre Couer, on to the Picasso Museum, then monumental Notre Dame, the modern Pompidu Centre, the Lourve and finally the Musee D'Orsay (home of the impressionists). We ended it all with a lovely dinner, compete with wine (that's cheaper than water), before heading back to the airport for our flight out.

I was struck most by how nice everything seemed. On our big trip, sight seeing was never of central importance. We simply enjoyed being in all these new places. But in Paris, all I wanted to do was look around me. Every building was beautiful and old. I gazed awestruck just looking down the sidestreets. Simply writing about the sights
make me feel all romantic inside.

We shall have to go back when we have more time to spend... and money for that matter.