Champagne and Rose Lights of Paris
May 3, 2008
After a fabulous few days in London, I was in travel mode and ready to
join the tour for a nice and early departure from London, taking a bus
to the ferry at Dover across to Calais, where our bus driver and coach
met us for the drive through to Paris. There are 37 people in the tour
group, with 80% coming from Australia!! A good mix of people ( a lot of
couples!!) - some are more after seeing the sights and those that are
determined to get tanked in every country for the cheapest price. Our
tour leader is a lovely Kiwi girl called Lauren and the bus driver is
Brian (originally also from NZ, but has been doing this for the past 16
years - read: extremely good at getting very drunk on his non driving
days).
After checking into our hotel in Paris (pretty basic, but OK I thought, but others kept referring to how we were staying in the ghetto!!), we were dropped off in the Monmarte area where we had a great 3 course meal for only 11 euros (love the 3 course thing that europeans seem to be into!!), then went on a night driving tour of Paris to see the main sights and the rose and champagne coloured car lights down the Champs Elysees (damn Austrian keyboard throwing off my typing - why do you need to swap letters around on the keyboard!!??)
We had a pretty early night, with a massive day of sight seeing planned for the next day....
After checking into our hotel in Paris (pretty basic, but OK I thought, but others kept referring to how we were staying in the ghetto!!), we were dropped off in the Monmarte area where we had a great 3 course meal for only 11 euros (love the 3 course thing that europeans seem to be into!!), then went on a night driving tour of Paris to see the main sights and the rose and champagne coloured car lights down the Champs Elysees (damn Austrian keyboard throwing off my typing - why do you need to swap letters around on the keyboard!!??)
We had a pretty early night, with a massive day of sight seeing planned for the next day....
