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    • Day 1

      Bonjour Paris

      December 27, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C

      12 Uhr Ankunft in Paris. Sind wohl nicht die einzigen, die sich hier vergnügen wollen.

      Da fahren wir doch direkt auf den Eiffelturm zu. Unser airbnb ist nicht weit entfernt.

      Eine schöne Ecke und ein kleines, aber feines airbnb. Mal sehen wie es wird.Read more

    • Day 1

      PARIS wir kommen…..

      Yesterday in France ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Heute ging es los. Auf nach Paris mit dem TGV. 🇫🇷 Um Mittag ging es von Zürich nach Paris in nur vier Stunden. Dort angekommen, besorgten wir uns zuerst die Tickets 🎟️ für die Metro. 🚇 Danach ging es zur Unterkunft. Wir haben ein einfaches und preisgünstiges Hotel ausgesucht. Nach der Inspektion und ein wenig Ausruhen ging es wieder auf Entdeckungstour. Wir fuhren zum Hard Rock Café. Dort genossen wir unser Abendessen 🥘 und danach fuhren wir weiter zum Montparasse. Wir fuhren mit dem Lift ganz nach oben und genossen von dort oben die herrliche Aussicht auf Paris by Night. Der Eiffelturm war toll beleuchtet und bot uns auch ein wunderbares Schauspiel. Für die Mädchen war es schon mal ein erstes grosses Wow. 🤩 Der Rückweg zum Hotel gestaltete sich dann etwas schwieriger und dauerte länger und so kamen wir erst um 0.30 Uhr zurück und fielen müde ins Bett. 🛏️ 😴Read more

    • Day 67

      Paris Day 2 - Beauty & Sprain!

      July 19, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      This morning we had breakfast in our room and then walked down to firstly see the Sainte Chappelle. It has been on our list for a VERY long time and did not disappoint. What beautiful leadlight in a magnificent setting. We parted with Phil & Diane after that and walked quite a long way to get to the Musee D'Orsay - a favourite of both of us. It was very crowded so we made sure we went to see the Degas & Manet exhibition and then some of our other favourites. All wonderful until I missed a step and twisted my ankle. Managed to walk all the way home but it's all swollen now!!Read more

    • Day 68

      Paris the Beauty/Garnier Opera

      July 20, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      Last night we had a wonderful couple of hours with John Mitchell and his wife Nicole and second baby Hayden. John was our neighbour and Luke's good friend when we lived in Azalea Street, Prospect:). They have lived in Paris for the last five years - working for the OECD and WHO. What a lovely young couple getting the most out of their lives. Nicole gave us a lovely box of Popelini - yummy miniature Paris creamy puffs/eclairs - various flavours and we have decided they are better than macarons! This morning we tried to UBER to the Garnier Opera House but the UBER rejected our request because it seemed very busy. We ended up taking the Metro. The Opera building is magnificent and certainly worth seeing again - and sharing it with the other three. (Photo 3 is looking down to our hotel lobby from our 5th Floor room. Glad there is a lift!Read more

    • Day 14

      24776 Schritte in 12 Stunden

      July 28, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

      Kurz nach neun aus dem Haus und wieder ins Haus zurück... Dazwischen 12 Stunden Programm mit viiiiiel zu sehen und zu laufen...
      Wir starten mit dem Zug zum Gare Du Nord und von da aus mit der Metro gen L'Arc de Triomphe... Gucken, staunen und dann schön die Champs Élysées entlangbummeln. Und ja, wir mussten auch mal in einen kunterbunten, kitschigen und völlig überteuerten Souvenirshop 😂 Gänzlich überfordert waren wir im Disney Store und völlig ungläubig bei einem Store, vor dem ohne Ende Leute anstanden, aber uns der Name so gar nix sagte: Stranger Things... Okay, wir outen uns als Serienunwissende 😅 Offensichtlich gab es dort Fanartikel der Netflix-Serie... Wir fahren weiter mit dem Bus am Place de la Concorde vorbei und laufen dahin zurück, bummeln durch den Jardin Tuileries und landen dabei auch auf einer Art Rummel mit gesalzenen Preisen. Dementsprechend wenig ist los. Wir machen im Schatten ein Päuschen und beobachten Leute... Da kriegt man in Paris schon einiges geboten 😂 Danach begeben wir uns über den Nebeneingang Carrousel zum Louvre-Eingang - total unproblematisch und ohne Schlangestehen... Aber dann! Solche Menschenmengen in einem Museum habe ich zuletzt in Kairo im Ägyptischen Museum gesehen!!! Zudem hat man echt Schwierigkeiten sich zu orientieren... Wahnsinn! Ja, die Mona Lisa mussten wir uns auch anschauen, wir haben jedoch darauf verzichtet uns in die Schlange direkt vor dem Bild zu stellen, um einmal direkt davor zu stehen... Dann gucken wir uns Napoleons Apartment an, Schmuckstücke vom Sonnenkönig, ein wenig ägyptische Ausgrabungsstücke und noch die Reste des mittelalterlichen Schlosses und und und... Und laufen gefühlt ständig Zickzack... Dazu oft in recht stickiger Luft...
      Wir gehen anschließend nochmal in den Museumsshop und starten dann auch bald schon mit der Metro gen Montmartre. An der Bushaltestelle, an der wir im Anschluss aussteigen, laden Tische und gute Laune in ein Bistro ein, daher lassen wir uns dort nieder und genießen erstmal Abendessen... Gestärkt erklimmen wir den Hügel zur Sacre Coeur... Welch Ausblick heute bei klarer Sicht auf die Stadt! Einfach schön! Wir lassen das Treiben dort auf uns wirken, lauschen den Musikern und verweilen... Dann machen wir uns mit der Standseilbahn auf den Rückweg. Unser Zweitagesticket spinnt jetzt ab und an und lässt abwechselnd mal Thomas, mal mich nicht mehr durch, aber letztlich bekommen wir es immer irgendwie gelöst und sind nach neun wieder zurück in der Ferienwohnung. Kaputt, mit über 24000 Schritten, aber begeistert von vielen schönen Eindrücken...
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    • Day 31

      Conflans

      October 29, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

      Day 5 on the Seine

      Was feeling a bit under the weather so didn't get up to much today. Visited Malmaison however, the home of the Bonapartes in the time Napoleon seized power. It was interesting to see the difference in the styles of the rooms he designed (which all looked like military tents) and the rooms designed by his wife Jospehine (which looked like miniature Versailles rooms).

      Fun fact of the day: the little boy in the painting of Napoleon's coronation didn't actually attend the event. He was Napoleons step-grandson, asked to be included in the painting by Napoleon as a way to indicate who should inherit the throne should something happen to him.
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    • Day 3

      Bonjour!

      June 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F

      I appear to have run into a character limit in the middle of the night post last night. That limit may now be gone.

      It’s our first morning in France, with a very traditional French breakfast.

      Good morning to all and thank you for following us. I had been attempting to follow-up on each and every follow and message—but that has quickly become too much! So many kind followers and so many wonderful comments and likes! Thank you all and forgive me if I don’t respond to everything.

      Had some Internet issues yesterday but those should be resolved now. (Had my VPN set to prefer Seattle, WA which was conflicting with local connections! Doh on me!)
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    • Day 33

      Correction

      July 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F

      In my last post I said that Sean officially had his worst meal of the Camino. Boy did I misunderstand!

      He enjoyed last night’s dinner very much—a soup-like mix of green beans and Gorgonzola beans (correction: garbanzo!) with bread for sopping it up.

      His worst meal was technically before our Camino even started, back on Orthez, France where he ordered a hamburger and got some sort of Frankenstein’s monster burger on a bun that didn’t deserve to be called a bun!

      He has especially enjoyed the soups with bread for sopping up—much like his Grandpa C. would have. (We haven’t seen “tugboat stew” on any of the menus, or maybe we have and just didn’t translate it properly!)

      Happy 4th of July everyone!
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    • Day 9

      The hard luck little town of Viviers

      May 21, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

      The little ancient town of Viviers is known in France as the town most flooded. It is also, as it turns out, the last place Joseph and I will visit on our trip. But more about that later. Viviers has the bad luck to be on a low point of the river Rhône. This wild river that is now partially tamed by a series of dams and locks, occasionally is the victim of “controlled” water release. In order to save other communities up and below stream, water is released during wet years sometimes twice a year. The town is given about a two hour warning so that people can run and move their cars up hill. The water can come shoulder high and little boats come out for the people to be able to get around. Each time this happens it takes a couple of months to clean up. So come this winter if you hear about severe flooding in parts of France, chances are Viviers is mentioned. Also, for whatever reason, the Nazis took a particular delight in causing atrocities here during the war, especially to those who hid Jews from being rounded up. You will see some little arches between buildings. That is not for decoration but to keep the building from collapsing in on one another especially when foundations are compromised by flooding. Each year the townspeople are assessed a tax and every few years that money is used to restore one of the buildings. Many people wonder why the townspeople just don’t abandon this place of hardships but if you visit there you will meet a stubborn people who are very attached to their family history and are willing to fight for the place they live in and love. They are attached to their castle cathedral and all who live there.
      After visiting Viviers we came back to the boat and got a call to our stateroom that Jeannette had tested positive for Covid. So as of that moment we were considered “unclean” as people were called in ancient times. We were not the only ones in this most unhappy of predicaments. Come the following morning after everyone else had left the boat for excursions in Toulon, the unlucky 14 walked the plank for the last time to a group of private taxis and were whisked away on a six hour journey to the Charles de Gaulle airport to be sequestered in the Marriott hotel. We will remain there until we test negative and then unceremoniously and gently we will be kicked out of France. No ands, ifs or buts. So our trip ends with a whimper instead of a victorious drum beat. Stay tuned, I plan to report some on our lament. And thanks for following along with our first and only leg of our adventure.
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    • Day 1

      Aufenhalt in Paris

      December 12, 2019 in France ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C

      Wir sind in Paris gelandet. Nachdem gestern raus kam das unsere Buchung nicht funktioniert hätte, haben wir gestern Abend noch 2 Plätze bei Airfrance bekommen . Um 23:45 geht es rüber, da müssen wir uns noch die Zeit vertreiben.Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Département du Val-d’Oise, Departement du Val-d'Oise, Val d'Oise, Valle de Oise, Val-d'Oise

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