Well, we finally made it to Paris! This was the first sight we saw from the train station. We traveled by train to get there & while on the train ride we went through the Chunnel (basically under the ocean!) Sorta freaky… It took about 3 hours to get from London to Paris. Not bad. Anyway our bus never came to get us once in Paris, so we waited for a couple of hours with our stuff & then we finally ended up taking taxi cabs to our hotel-the Hotel Arley Tour Eiffel. The ride was quick & a bit crazy too. People drive crazy here. The good news however is that they drive on the normal side of the road so that is more normal than London. Waiting outside the train station turned out to be a good thing however because it sort of broke us in to the French culture-we had a good time people watching and basically just tried to take it all in. There was one definite observation that we all made, and that is-Everyone smokes here! It’s nuts! It was also interesting hearing everyone speaking French. We felt a bit intimidated & out of place at first, but that feeling started to fade after our first day here…for the most part people here are pretty friendly to us despite what we heard before we came. After we got to our hotel, we basically just moved in & found a nice pizza parlour to eat at that is right down the street from our hotel. That was all we did for the night. We were all very tired from the long day!
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