The day dawned bright and beautiful! We began the day with a lovely Parisian breakfast in our apartment. It was a stunningly beautiful day, blue skies and no clouds. It was perfect weather to go and see something important that I hadn’t yet seen. So when I got there, I took lots of photos of it….
Category: France
Versailles? OH MY!!!
We had made plans the night before to meet Brian and Kakki at the Metro at 8am to get the train out of Paris to Versailles (pronounced Ver-sigh). Interestingly, the dawn and dusk in Europe are much longer than in NZ. It literally takes hours to get dark, and hours to get light again! From the…
Glimpses of Paris
A new day dawned in fair Paris and we were off to the Louvre, just on the other side of the river from where we were staying. This old palace of the royal family dates back to the twelfth century, and was just massive. It used to have a moat around it: This is just one…
A tête-à-tête with friends in Paris
On our last morning in London we made our way to the International train station and boarded the Eurostar for a fairly fast trip to Paris. We arrived at our Airbnb accommodation in Paris where Mike looked at the 3 flights of stairs in horror! There was no elevator. Nuff said. 😉 Personally, I thought the…
In Calais, France
Our friends in France, Didier and Jacqui, live in a beautiful spot in the French countryside! We felt very welcome: Everything was much more perfect looking than this in the bedroom when we first arrived, this is the lived-in and slept-in version. 😉 The view from our window of the garden was gorgeous! In fact their whole…