I feel terrible. I haven't had the opportunity to post for some time. Since we left London. I did have access in a nice cafe in Paris but for some reason I couldn't login on the strange french keyboards. Perhaps, I can fill you in now! Further, it seems like it is hard to publich my blog here In Europe!
We had a wonderful time in Paris. The weather was a little cold but we made due with coats and exercise. We arrived and made our way from our hotel to the Eiffel Tower (a matter of four blocks or so) The Tower is impressive at over 1000 feet high adn crisscrossed with metal fittings, bolts and the like. It is like a mountain that only gets bigger as you get closer. Paris surely doesn't disappoint! One is always awed by the beauty, splendor and variety of different things about the city...
We made sure to purchase metro passes and I tried unsuccessfully to purchase museum passes Tuesday evening but Tuesdays are bad for museums (many are closed). We used the metro and buses extensively on this visit. It is quite easy to move around a well-organized city like Paris with metro/ bus
Jordan would just love the history and the beauty and the large number of darling dogs that parisians have! :)
We toured parts of the louvre --Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, Coronation Of Napoleon, busts, Da Vincis, and many more. Then we wlked to NOtre-Dame and walked through the gloreous interior, had lunch at McDonalds and then took the metro back to the hotel. After refreshing, we toured the Napoleon's Military Museum and finished the nigth with a bus tour of the local area and a quick coffee before bed.
we left Paris yesterday adn travelled to the Rhein River Valley in Germany. I stayed on the MOssel River at a placce called Beilstein. It is a quait, out-of-the-way, place with no ATM's, no bus station ... just people and homes and zimmers right on the lazy Mossel River.
Not everything is perfect when you travel. We are constantly at each other's throats. We are always picking at each other's failings (the smaller the better to pick on) out of lack of sleep and energy and stress of going from place to place. Further, we haven't had as much patience and understading when things don't go right-- a metro door shuts on our leg or we go in the wrong direction or someone is rude to us... Sometimes we do too much comparing or our ways versus European ways. We shoudl just accept their ways instead.
I lost my Debit card today too; an ATM ate it!
I do feel terrible... I wish my access were as easy as home and as convenient.
It truly has been hectic... London, Paris, Rhein Valley and now the very interesting and remarkable Amsterdam!
This place is so free, open and wonderful. People, canals, bikes, sights and sounds ... We just finished a quick walk around our hotel. ( we didn't have a hotel when we arrived. I called around from the central train station and eventually found one in a peaceful area not far from Anne Frank's house!)
i will write again soon (if I have the time....)
