Paris and London- Bon jour & ‘ello Govenor!

The flight to Paris was sooooo easy compared to the long 20 hours it took to get to Dubai. We had 3 seats for us and the plane was only half full. Matt was glued to the window the whole way, looking at all the landscape that was going by. Unfortunately the sky-map wasn’t working so we never knew what we were flying over.
We arrived in Charles de Goolie goolie airport (excuse the French accent.. hehee) and had to make our way to the train and transfer over to the metro to get to the hotel. It was the smallest and the hottest room in the world but we didn’t really mind as the plan was to only sleep and keep our bags there. And that we did. The first night we spent in a French café eating some delicious food before going back to the room and crashing for the night which was good because we spent all next day walking around Paris. In fact we walked for the crazy amount of 11 hours and saw the Eiffel tower (and went up there) , Seine river (crossed it a few times), Notre Dame (went inside but not up the tower) and much much more- The biggest buzz was to just walk around with no real plan and scope things out as we found them. Our feet were pretty exhausted at 6 so we took a bus back to the hotel and the plan was to have a little rest and then go and see the Eiffel tower at night all lit up—but no.. The last ting I remember was closing my eyes for a minute and then there was no more. I passed out in a serious way and slept like the dead until 4 in the morning while Matt watched some movies til midnight.

The next day was spent walking around some more seeing the Arc de Triumph and climbing up the 277 steps to get to the top and have a look at the view. Pretty amazing stuff and absolutely mind-blowing how they built all these amazing structures. Matt got a text from NZ that day from Ando saying that we should make our way to Versalles to see the HUGE place that Marie Antonette lived at before she lost her head. And so we did. The place was RAMMED with people so we opted to not go in there as we had a train to catch to London later that day but we walked around and found a gate that lead into the castle garden so we made like a king and a queen and had a little picnic in the grass.
Afterwards we slowly made our way back to the hotel to get our bags and leave Paris on the Eurostar.