June 2022

Europe Trip 2022

My 2022 vacation with my mom and sister; the first time I have left the country!
We went to Rome, Paris, and London! Read more

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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 10:20 AM
- ⛅ 79 °F
- Altitude: 23 ft
- Italy Fiumicino International Airport 41.795806, 12.25830641°47’45” N 12°15’30” E
Final Descriptions/Opinions about Rome
June 8, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
- Rome is largely a city of old architecture, so much so that you cannot modify the exterior of old buildings to preserve the old style. However, the interiors of most buildings are actually very fancy and futuristic.
- Italian may be the primary language in Rome, but almost everyone also speaks English. We never had an issue with the language barrier.
- The outlets are ( • • )
- Our travel company, Monograms, were guiding us the whole way. Our transport during guided tours was a very fancy and futuristic-looking bus.Read more
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 1:04 PM
- ⛅ 82 °F
- Altitude: 20 ft
- Italy Npp 23 (Parco Leonardo)41.808734, 12.2663541°48’31” N 12°15’59” E
Ready to Takeoff from Rome Airport
June 8, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
We are in the plane, ready to takeoff from Rome Fiumicino International Airport to Paris’ Airport!
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 3:42 PM
- 🌧 66 °F
- Altitude: 335 ft
- France Le Mesnil-Amelot 49.005142, 2.57607949°0’19” N 2°34’34” E
Got Luggage at Paris Airport
June 8, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌧 66 °F
We collected our luggage from baggage claim at Paris Airport.
It took absolutely forever for them to start the conveyor belt. It finally started 20-25 minutes past the expected time (3:11 PM / 15:11).
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 3:55 PM
- 🌧 66 °F
- Altitude: 384 ft
- France Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport 49.003838, 2.56744449°0’14” N 2°34’3” E
Heading to Paris Hotel
June 8, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌧 66 °F
We met our representative from Monograms (our travel company), and are now heading to the hotel (a 45 minute drive) in a passenger van with our driver.
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 5:30 PM
- 🌧 66 °F
- Altitude: 161 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.855567, 2.29267248°51’20” N 2°17’34” E
Arrived at Hotel Room
June 8, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌧 66 °F
We arrived at the hotel, talked to the Monograms (tour guide) people about our guided tours, and are sitting in our very futuristic-looking hotel room.

Photos attached are the view from right outside our hotel!Read more
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 8:47 PM
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Altitude: 144 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.855093, 2.2943848°51’18” N 2°17’40” E
Dinner at Le Beaujolais
June 8, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
We ate dinner at Le Beaujolais, a restaurant near the hotel!
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 8:55 PM
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Altitude: 161 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.855567, 2.29267248°51’20” N 2°17’34” E
At Hotel For the Night
June 8, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
We finished eating, and have returned to the hotel for the night.
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 9:05 AM
- ⛅ 57 °F
- Altitude: 161 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.857346, 2.29146248°51’26” N 2°17’29” E
Ate Breakfast; Starting Guided City Tour
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
We ate hotel breakfast and are ready to begin our guided city tour!
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 10:56 AM
- ⛅ 61 °F
- Altitude: 108 ft
- France Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel Railway Station 48.858883, 2.2914648°51’32” N 2°17’29” E
Finished Bus Tour; Boarding Boat Tour
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F
We finished our city tour aboard the bus, and are boarding the boat for our tour on the water!
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM
- ⛅ 63 °F
- Altitude: 128 ft
- France Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel Railway Station 48.858727, 2.29161648°51’31” N 2°17’30” E
Finished Boat Tour; Walking to Hotel
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
We finished our boat tour, and walked to the hotel on our own, without our tour guide.
During the boat tour, we had a separate guide from our bus tour guide. She talked very fast, in both English and French.
The boat tour was very hot on the way there because of the sun being out, but on the way back the wind picked up.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 2:10 PM
- ⛅ 66 °F
- Altitude: 105 ft
- France Arc de triomphe du Carrousel 48.861763, 2.33309248°51’42” N 2°19’59” E
Found Louvre Tour Guide, Ready for Tour
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
We found our Louvre tour guide after a chaotic adventure trying to find them, and are ready to take the tour of the Louvre Museum!

Getting to the Louvre was an adventure as well! The travel company lets you book this tour through them, but they don’t handle it or transport to it.
So, we decided to take the metro/subway. Our Monograms representative explained it to us, so after some struggling on figuring out the lines and where to go, we used our tickets and got to the track. But then, my mom realized she forgot our tickets. So, she ran all the way back to the hotel, and came back with them a while later. The mistake couldn’t be blamed on her, it was a silly mistake that anyone could’ve made. We got on a train, rode to a stop, switched trains, and eventually arrived right in front of the Louvre. Then the journey began of figuring out where to go to meet the tour guide.

We thought we should look for a Monograms sign, as that is our travel company for the trip. However, we were wrong. We finally found our tour guide, separate from Monograms, and prepared for the tour.
We tried to call our representative from Monograms, our travel company, but their number didn’t work.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 4:40 PM
- ⛅ 70 °F
- Altitude: 118 ft
- France The Louvre 48.861001, 2.335948°51’40” N 2°20’9” E
Louvre Tour Over; Heading Back to Hotel
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
We finished our guided tour of the Louvre Museum, and are planning to head back to the hotel for a bit.

We saw MANY famous works of art, including, of course, the Mona Lisa. It had a queue set up for the immense amount of people, and you couldn’t even get very close to the glass case holding the painting. However, I got some very nice pictures.

The tour was very chaotic because of the MAJOR crowdedness of the Louvre. Our tour guide also packed in a lot of stuff to see. It was awesome, but I was exhausted and my back hurt majorly by the end of it.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 7:14 PM
- ⛅ 68 °F
- Altitude: 144 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.854694, 2.28917548°51’17” N 2°17’21” E
Ate Dinner at Iolanda
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F
We ate dinner at Iolanda, a restaurant nearby the hotel, after our long journey at the Louvre. I got Pepperoni Pizza and a chocolate milkshake!
(Pictures of unique buildings are from down the street.)
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 10:05 PM
- ⛅ 66 °F
- Altitude: 75 ft
- France Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel Railway Station 48.859138, 2.29265548°51’33” N 2°17’34” E
Saw Eiffel Tower Sparkle
June 9, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
We saw the Eiffel Tower “sparkle” with its lights flickering!
The sparkling lights are a staple of the Eiffel Tower, so we had to see them!
This only happens for the first 5 minutes of each hour at night, so we had to hurry to a good spot.Read more
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:23 AM
- ☀️ 66 °F
- Altitude: 118 ft
- France Eiffel Tower 48.858123, 2.2953548°51’29” N 2°17’43” E
Waiting in Line to Enter Eiffel Tower
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
We are waiting in line to enter the Eiffel Tower! We have tickets, but there are still lines for security and the elevator.
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:31 AM
- ⛅ 70 °F
- Altitude: 125 ft
- France Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel Railway Station 48.858158, 2.29291748°51’29” N 2°17’35” E
Explored Eiffel Tower; Heading to Hotel
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
We went up the Eiffel Tower in the elevators (there were 2 floors). We went to the top and got some amazing pictures at the top, then returned down. There was a gift shop, but it wasn’t anything special.Read more
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 12:53 PM
- ⛅ 72 °F
- Altitude: 184 ft
- France Eglise Saint-Louis-d'Antin 48.875411, 2.32846948°52’31” N 2°19’42” E
Rode Metro to Galeries Lafayette Mall
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
We rode the metro (for the second time; we first took it to the Louvre) to the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann shopping mall! We are currently walking to it.
The metro honestly isn’t too bad once you figure out the lines and where they go.Read more
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 1:30 PM
- ⛅ 73 °F
- Altitude: 184 ft
- France Haussmann Saint-Lazare Railway Station 48.873517, 2.3320348°52’25” N 2°19’55” E
Left Galeries Lafayette (Too Expensive)
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
The Galeries Lafayette shopping mall was WAY too expensive, which we did not realize lmao. We are going to an H&M for my sister to shop, then calling it a day.
(Pictures from inside the mall.)
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM
- ⛅ 75 °F
- Altitude: 141 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.852564, 2.291148°51’9” N 2°17’28” E
Ate at Pizza Di Napoli
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
We ate lunch at Pizza Di Napoli, and probably won’t eat dinner due to having an early morning tomorrow.
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:50 PM
- 🌙 68 °F
- Altitude: 161 ft
- France Centre sportif Emile Anthoine 48.855568, 2.29267248°51’20” N 2°17’34” E
Heading to Bed; Train Ride Tomorrow
June 10, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌙 68 °F
We are heading to bed, preparing for our VERY early (around 6 AM) train ride to London, England, United Kingdom! This is the train that goes in an underwater tunnel, and should only take a couple of hours. We need to get well rested, because it’ll still be morning in London when we arrive.

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— Personal Notes —
(No need to read, unless you want to)
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I have Stranger Things Season 4 downloaded, ready to watch even without onboard WiFi or data! I really like the show, even though I only started it shortly before the trip.
I actually just finished rewatching my (probably) favorite movie “Free Guy” on TV here (because there’s an option on most TV channels to play the original audio, rather than the French dub) and I made the new connection that Steve in Stranger Things is also Keys in Free Guy. It’s so weird how an actor I know and love from a newly watched show is also a main character in an older movie I love, but I just never realized until watching the show. Stranger Things actually came YEARS before Free Guy, but it’s so weird to me because I never watched it until now. The world is weird, man.Read more
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 6:58 AM
- ⛅ 59 °F
- Altitude: 220 ft
- France Paris Nord Souterrain Railway Station 48.881692, 2.35633748°52’54” N 2°21’23” E
At Train Station; Going Thru Security
June 11, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
We arrived at the train station after our bus ride here. Our Monograms person is guiding us through the process, and we just need to pass through both border control stations and security.
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 7:30 AM
- ⛅ 61 °F
- Altitude: 236 ft
- France Paris Nord 48.881195, 2.35389548°52’52” N 2°21’14” E
Waiting For Our Train at Gate
June 11, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F
We are waiting for our train at Gate A. The Monograms plan got us here like an hour and a half early, so I’ll be waiting a while. Our train to London St-Pancras Intl is currently scheduled to leave at 09:12.Read more
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 9:00 AM
- ⛅ 63 °F
- Altitude: 240 ft
- France Paris Nord 48.880711, 2.35482848°52’51” N 2°21’17” E
Boarded Eurostar Train; Waiting to Leave
June 11, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
We boarded our Eurostar train in Standard Premier class. Specifically, we are in Coach 14. There thankfully is WiFi, though it did warn that it could go out occasionally due to 3G and 4G weak spots.
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 10:38 AM
- ⛅ 66 °F
- Altitude: 98 ft
- England St Pancras International Railway Station 51.530586, -0.12593751°31’50” N 0°7’33” W
Exited Train; Found Monograms Person
June 11, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
We exited the train and found our Monograms rep to take us to the hotel.
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 11:54 AM
- ⛅ 68 °F
- Altitude: 56 ft
- England South Bank 51.500725, -0.11690751°30’3” N 0°7’1” W
Got Hotel Room; Going Out Soon
June 11, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F
We arrived at the hotel after the van ride. We got our room and trip info from the travel company here, as well as tickets to an excursion that weren’t already in the folder. The room is very fancy, as well is the whole hotel. We are going to walk around the city soon and explore what’s here.Read more
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