Saturday, June 26, 2010
Dobrý Den! Er... Bonjour!
At noon on Sunday my friend Amy, a group of kids from her school, and I left from the city of Kroměříž to Paříž, better known as Paris. Paris was the first stop on our trip to the United Kingdom, but it was my favorite part. We arrived about 21 hours later, having driven through the night, and our first stop was La Sorbonne, our the University of Paris. We walked around the campus and then were given free time. Amy and I went and had coffee and a baguette for breakfast in a little french cafe. At the end of my sentence in French instead of saying s'il-vous plait, I said prosim. This happened multiple times during the day and was ridiculously irritating, Czech has just completely taken over my brain. In case you didn't know s'il vous-plait and prosim, both mean please, the first is French and the second Czech. After coffee we continued to Les Jardins Tuileries and from there we went to Notre Dame. Notre Dame was beautiful, the stained glass windows there are amazing. We then took a boat tour of the city on the river Seine and saw le Louvre, Le Tour Eiffel, and Le Musee D'Orsay. After the boat tour we walked to the Eiffel Tower and then we had some time to walk around because our guide had mixed up the time of our reservation. So we walked around and took pictures and layed around. At two we began our ascent of the Tower and eventually made it to the top. The view from the top was amazing and we stayed up there for a couple hours. After buying souvenirs we descended via the stairs (bad idea) and then got back on the bus. On our way out of Paris we drove bast L'Arche de Triomphe and then drove to the north of France to spend the night. The next morning we drove even farther north, to the very tip of France to take the Chunnel to England. Amy and I were very excited to be able to speak in English again and the Chunnel was very interesting. Having boarded the Chunnel, bus and all, we started to move. The ride isn't very long, only about forty five minutes and halway through...
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