Monday, 27 October 2008

Paris

I went to Paris for 2 days to see family, and this is the Eurostar - the only real way to travel!

Unfortunately I can't afford that way... but I did see it as I got the train out to Luton to fly with Easy Jet!

This is the view of where my family have their boat on the river, very pretty :)



My uncle had to work in the morning of my full day there, so I went for a wander around Paris and saw all of the famous places.
I've been so lucky with the weather which is great!

I think the Smart car in front is a good look - there are hardly any asian cars over this side of the globe - love it!

Looking down the Champs-Elysees

lots of flash car shops around, in the Citroen shop they had some of their shiny rally cars on turn tables



After Rupert finished work, we got a bike each (in Paris you can use bikes which you pick up and drop off at various points within the city, they are free for the first 30 mins and cheap after that too), Rupert had his flash new one, with auto lights, which he is very proud of!


Rupert and police horses in front of Notre Dame





Can you guess where this is??!
Love the detail close up


There were heaps of police about, even on scooters... I could take them on for sure!

Then, as we were cycling about, minding our own business, a Scirocco drove past!
Like a crazed member of the paparazzi I cycled after it taking a video, but I was holding up people on scooters and couldn't get in front of it :( Still exciting though cause its the first one I'd seen!
The bike which I had only had 3 gears...

Later on we went to see one at a dealership. I had a sit in it, and it is very tidy - I do prefer mine though :)


View towards the city from where the boat is kept

Here is the Albatross - my families boat
Family pics;

The girls are growing up so fast!!
Jade (now 11) likes to discuss things such as "The thing with gays is..."
She is brilliant!

Paris was great - brilliant to see my family of course. But I wasn't very impressed with the airport; I'm not going to rant, but it's lucky that the country is run with better efficiency than Charles de Gaul, and I don't see what makes the french so special that they can't form queues!

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