Friday, September 4, 2009

Quintessential Tourist


So our first post from abroad can only be of a famous landmark. This shot is from our room overlooking the Tuillerie gardens with the tour Eifel in the background. If the leaves changing colours wasn't indication enough of the weather, it's damn cold. We made it to the hotel via train/metro without any issues and hit the beat for a while until our room was ready. During that time we were approached briskly by two police in riot gear, I mean full head to toe body armour and serious weapons, pointing at us as we were apparently on the wrong side of the sidewalk while a VIP was being escorted by half the Paris police force. I also tried on a pair of jeans that only cost 377 EUR and found perhaps the only deal in the first arrondisement, 3 chocolate croissants for 2,50 EUR. Cheaper than the martinis at the hotel. Which by the way only cost 20 EUR. A la prochaine!

4 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear you spent all your money already on jeans and martinis.Glad to hear you made it to Paris safely. Have Fun. MarkP.

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  2. Hi guys, glad to hear you made it safe and sound...well until you walked the streets of paris! Your picture is gorgeous as per usual. Looking forward to seeing more lovely pics. Enjoy!
    Tracey

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  3. Hey You guys!
    So glad that you made it there in one piece. Sounds like you are having fun already! I love that you have a blog! I'm going to check it every day!
    Can't wait for the next entry!!!!
    Andrea

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  4. Hey guys!!
    So nice to hear from you!! I have to be quick because we don't have use of the internet for long! Thanks for checking in on us though! It's always fun to be able to share our adventures with our friends back home!!! Now, we're out to start today's adventures...a little slow out of the blocks, but after all, we are on vacation :)
    Talk to you all soon!
    Julie and Ron :)

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