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    • TravelerSabbatical 🌍
      Day 1

      Los geht's - Paris 🌞

      October 25 in France ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      Liebe Leute,
      gestern ging es endlich los für mich - meine kleine Reisezeit. Um diese für euch und natürlich auch als Erinnerung für mich festzuhalten, starte ich nun diesen kleinen ,,travel-blog". ;) Ein paar Monate (natürlich mit Auszeit, weil Heimweh) werde ich mal hier und mal dort sein und hoffentlich wunderbare Ecken Europas sowie auch neue Arbeitswelten (die Arbeitshose für den Stall liegt schon bereit hehe) entdecken. Aber nun heißt es erstmal Urli. :)
      Gestern sind Rowena und ich nach 12h Zugfahrt in Paris angekommen. Nach einer erholsamen Nacht und ein paar Croissants/ pain au chocolate intus, sind wir wohlgesonnen in den Tag gestartet. Paar Tourispots abgeklappert, Vino geschlürft, die französisch skills geprüft (habe noch ordentlich Lernbedarf!) und die Mentalität hier aufgesaugt - reicht für den ersten Tag 🤭 Lasst auch mal von euch hören! Bis baldi, Lea 🫶
      PS: Es gibt hier auch eine Kommentarfunktion - check this out 😜      Read more

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    • France 2024
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      Day 2

      First day in Paris

      October 28 in France ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      We arrived around noon after an overnight flight and almost zero sleep but we were determined to keep going. Checked into our small hotel (lovely staff and clean albeit small rooms) and then headed out to explore the city. Wandered the streets, saw some gorgeous old buildings and salivating worthy bakeries before we stopped for a pot of mussels and coffee. There's a store near our hotel that is a stand alone foie gras shop! Wandered lots more and then the final stop was at Hugo's (under the apartment of Victor Hugo) for some amazing ice cream. An early night and readying ourselves for a big day tomorrow.Read more

    • TravelerEurope
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      Day 20

      Paris!

      October 29 in France ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      We arrived in Paris, caught a cab to the hotel and so far Paris has not disappointed. Our hotel is lovely and will be a great end to this trip. We are about 1 block away from the Eiffel Tower. We arrived at 5:30 in the daylight but it was busy traffic and so by the time we were getting close to the hotel and driving by the Eiffel Tower it was dark and the lights on the tower were all sparkling, what a beautiful sight. I did not expect to be so “awe struck “ but I was!

      We settled in and went out for a walk about, again checked out the beautiful Eiffel Tower and walked along the Seine River. We had a scrumptious late lunch in Strasbourg and not feeling hungry, so tonight we just bought a nice bottle of wine and snacks for our room! Tomorrow off to explore this crazy city!

      Watch the video you can see how they make the lights sparkle, cheesy but you gotta love it.      Read more

    • France 2024
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      Day 3

      Day 2 Paris part 2

      October 29 in France ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      After the Galleries Lafayette observation deck we proceeded to do some shopping. See the shoes with which I trolled my husband - no I did not really buy them. There's an amazing array of gourmet food stuffs for sale. Oh for some more room in our suitcases! Them on to a lovely cafe for lunch and the most amazing cheese board and a croquette madam for Mary. Some more shoe shopping and a trip to the Tiger gin bar. Tuesday night and the streets are alive with locals having dinner on patios in the evening. Found our second Canadian place today - this one a bar - no we did not visit. Took a walk by Notre Dame and finished the evening in a lovely little warm and covered patio with guacamole and chips.Read more

    • TravelerEurope
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      Day 21

      Oui, Oui, Paris…

      October 30 in France ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      What more can you say when after a most delicious breakfast, you step outside look up at the Eiffel Tower and take a stroll along the Seine River and then walk around la Parc du Champs de Mars. Pinch me. Today we did the hop off and on bus, which is a great way to get around and see the highlights of Paris Center. As we were walking around Paris, we indulged in coffees, macaroons, chocolate and pastries! We landed up walking down to a Louvre from one of the stops. We did not go into the Louvre but rather did as so many others were doing, just hung out in the grounds and admired the area. Sort of reminded me of Rome and the Vatican City. People congregate there, take a million pics! There are places to sit and just take it all in.

      We had a delicious meal! I, with Boeuf Bourginon and Michael with some tasty veal stew. After dinner, I walked and walked by myself. Starting at the Eiffel then across the Seine and down along the river then across one of the many bridges then back to the Eiffel. Our hotel is like 2 minutes from the Eiffel. Paris at night is very busy, and I felt totally safe, families, tourists, and a whole lot of joggers.. so many people are out just gawking at the Eiffel Tower as it is so amazing with the lights and then on top of the hour, for 5 minutes, the lights sparkle…… that is when everyone is silent as they look up and watch. I met a couple of nice families. Once from England told me they got engaged under the Eiffel Tower 12 years ago. Another even younger couple asked me to take photos of them, as they posed, kissing each other, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. L’amour! Splendide! Yesterday I did 20,000 steps, 12.49 km.

      The architecture has its own flavour, I will include pics of the style. Not as old as I would have thought, with 5 or 6 stories high, same kind of colour but different shades except for the top level, which is darker, ornate balconies.      Read more

    • TravelerEurope
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      Day 22

      Bonne Nuit Paris and Europe 2024

      October 31 in France ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

      Today our last day in Paris and Europe, a wonderful trip, our feet are sore and we are indeed ready to go home. We enjoyed our last breakfast at the Pullman Hotel here, they serve a wonderful breakfast, tomorrow morning we have to leave very early, likely no time for breaky!

      Today we got to the Latin quarter of Paris, walked on Rue St Germain and other very cool streets. We had hot chocolate and a bite to eat in a gorgeous little cafe called “Germaine” and I will include pics as I found their cafe and in particular their bar area so sweet, with 5 hanging lights and all different little unique shades. I have several pics of Pont Alexandre III, it is so interesting.

      We walked to the Notre Dame Cathedral where work is still underway after the fire some years back.. We went into the infamous bookstore Shakespeare and Company, that was cool. Walked all the way back to our hotel and we are exhausted, resting up, pack up and then off to have our final delicious meal here in Paris.

      Tonight we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary (a bit early, Nov 13) and so signing off on this trip diary….. hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did documenting this trip.      Read more

    • TravelerEurope
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      Day 2–6

      Paris

      November 5 in France ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      The city of lights, despite its large reputation, has still exceeded my expectations. From the beautiful architecture, to the bigger than I thought Eiffel Tower and the frankly fantastic Public Transport system. But the part that blew me away the most is that there are so many people around all the time. Just lovely.Read more

    • TravelerEurope
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      Day 6

      Last day in Paris 🇫🇷

      November 9 in France ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      What a marvelous city, the culture the architecture, the food and yes ofc the public transport and Urbanism are all so lovely. Today I did a bunch of random stuff that doesn't deserve individual posts. I saw Napoleon's tomb, I roamed around the Le Marais District, did a canal cruise and had an excellent dinner at Le Relais de Venise.Read more

    • France 2024
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      Day 20

      Second last day in Paris

      November 15 in France ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Lots of walking. Some fun discoveries and disappointments. We started our day at an amazing patisserie around the corner from our hotel. Beautiful pastries and coffee for breakfast. Then we walked for an hour to the Catacombs only to find that we had to have purchased tickets online to enter and the next were not available for a couple of days. Oh well. We wandered next to the Abbey bookstore, owned by a Canadian who moved to Paris about 20 years back and decided to open a second Abbey bookstore, the first being in Toronto. 42,000 titles the owner told us, in a very narrow space with books up to the high ceiling. The best part however - Mary found two books, written long ago for which she has been searching for about a year.

      Next we walked to the Pantheon. A beautiful building, paintings and crypts down below of many noteworthy people.

      We next travelled to Saint Chapelle, a beautiful basilica to find it surrounded with a heavy police presence and again tickets were required but not available for the day. Turns out it is next to the courts - another gorgeous building - and something big must have been going on.

      We did stop in the Saint Severin church however and saw the incredible stained glass work.

      Next we decided it was time for a cocktail. A French Negroni for me - very good and made me think of my old colleague Hristijan Gjorgievski - and a white Spritz for Mary.

      We returned to the hotel for a while and then headed out for dinner at a place recommended by Shelley Wilson. We discovered a cool neighborhood in which the restaurant was located but arrived only to discover the restaurant closed Friday nights and Saturday. Sorry Shelley, we tried!

      We then started to wander up and down streets to find somewhere else to eat. We happened upon this fun looking place, with an appealing menu. The waiter beckoned us and he thought he would seat us on the other, less crowded part of the restaurant. Once we were seated Mary recognized it was the same place we visited earlier for a cocktail! We had a good laugh about that. Very good music selection and it turns out Jimi Hendrix is still very popular in Paris. And the onion soup at Comptoir Rivoli is amazing should you visit Paris in the future

      Tomorrow for a couple museums and the opening of the Christmas market.      Read more

    • Desert to Snow
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      Day 2

      Paris

      November 17 in France ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      After a 10.5 hour flight, we had an 8 hour layover in Paris. We booked a taxi into the city to visit a Christmas market in Tuileries Garden. We rode the carousel in the park, and as we snapped pictures of the Eiffel Tower, Jarrett and Davis said they wished we could have gone to see it. So we did!

      This was a revelation day as well because I always dreamed we could travel full time and make YouTube videos for family travel. Although I had long ago come up with the name "dysFUNctional family travels" for our channel, as you can see in the videos, I think this family is just too dysfunctional even for that 🤣      Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Île-de-France, Ile-de-France, Isla de Francia, 일드프랑스, Ilha de França

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