Paris!
I really love Paris, its so amazing. I have seen the Eiffle tower now uncountable times and eaten many meals in the Latin quater but I dont care its great! Have been here for a week and spent the first 3 nights with Mum and Sarita. Stayed in a really nice little hosltel and didnt eat pasta! Great times seeing Mum and Sarita again, not just cause Mum payed for stuff, but that did make it better!
We did a lot of the usual touristy things. Even went out to the cemetary where all the famous people are burried. Kind of a strange sort of tourism as you can buy these maps and go around to the different graves, very weird but we still did it. So we saw Jim Morrisons grave as well as Chopin and Oscar Wilde. It is a very cool graveyard with crazy huge graves everywhere, some gravesites are actually little church’s. Probably the coolest thing was going to see an actual Moulin Rouge show, Mum got a bit carried away and brought us tickets (definitely out of my budget) so we went to the realy Moulin Rouge, its was pretty amazing, super flash inside and you get served champagne. The inside is all tables with candles, its very cool. Nothing like the movie at all but its cool just to be at somewhere like that. The show itself was impressive, caberat style with big dresses and feathers and sparkely things, although the Moulin Rouge doesnt have courtasans anymore its still the Moulin Rouge and all the girls are topless in very little clothing, but in a very classy way! One part they raised a big pool and a girl swum around with pythons! So there was dancing, singing, clows, little ponies, very very cool!
After Mum and Sarita left I moved to a hostel (back to being poor) where I was meeting Ben and Michael, but unfortunately Ben had his passport stolen and had to go back to Denmark to get it so they ended up coming a day later. Had a really cool night that night though with a great bunch of people from the hostel, we had a little picnic down under the eiffel tower, drunk wine and I even got a rose from someone! Hung out for ages at my favourite place in Paris on this big wall that looks over the tower and its all lit up in the eveing. Perfect evening in the perfect location!
Finally meet up with the boys late the next evening as the earlier train was full! I went to the Louvre while waiting for them because on friday eveings its free for under 26’s. It was the perfect time to go as not many people around, no line and could walk straight up to the Mona Lisa, which was not all that impressive as expected. Also saw the venus de milo and other big sculptues, paintings etc, like all museums I got a bit over it by the end. It was great to see the boys finally, we went for a walk out to the Eiffel tower and ate kebabs. Spent the next day checking off sightseeing lists, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre dam and the Latin quatier. Its nice to be with friends from home for a change. While the boys watched soccer….so much soccer…I went to the eiffel tower again with some people and stayed up far to late playing card games.
As the weather was pretty average the next day the boys went to the Louvre and then we all went off to Starbucks for about 4 hours!! I know so uncultural….then after that hard afternoon we moved to a nice french restuarant for dinner then back to the hostel for more soccer and card games. I just left the guys at the train station where theyre off back to Germany and I’ve got one more night here before moving on to Cannes where Im working for the next month. So Paris has been great! I can imagine Ill probably end up at the Eiffel tower again tonight but thats cool, its great atmosphere in the park there always full of people having picnics and playing soccer, juggling; its cool. Funny though how every night at about 10 the sprinklers turn on and everyone sitting on the grass gets wet!
Next blog will be when I actually have a room and not moving for a whole month, itll be nice for a change.
under the eiffel tower…
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